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High-Rise Building Project Gets Under Way in Harrisburg, Pa.

By John Luciew, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 19--So, who should get the credit for an 18-story building that will rise on Harrisburg's Market Square, a location that Mayor Stephen R. Reed has called the crossroads of central Pennsylvania?

At a ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday, developer Tony Pascotti said the real force behind the project is none other than the vociferous opposition to his last project, an eight-story tower being built at 211 N. Front Street.

Because so many neighbors and histor

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