Westinghouse Park declared a Pittsburgh Historic Landmark
At its regular meeting on December 16, 2025, Pittsburgh City Council voted 7-1 to designate Westinghouse Park as a Pittsburgh Historic Landmark. Click on any of the images below to access the official YouTube video of the morning's entire deliberation.
While the session covered many proclamations and bills, you can fast forward to the three-minute testimony of David Bear, President of The Westinghouse Legacy, which can be found at the 1 hour 22 minute mark. (A transcript of Bear’s remarks can be found at the end of this post.)
At the 1 hour 59 minute mark, Councilman Khari Mosley offers his comments and support for the designation.
There is also a Tribune Review news item here.
David Bear, President of The Westinghouse Legacy
Pittsburgh City Counsilman Khari Mosley
David Bear remarks to City Council 12/16/25
My name is David Bear. A 45-year Pittsburgh resident and President of The Westinghouse Legacy, I rise in support of Westinghouse Park's nomination for historic landmark status.
Seven years ago, in response to neighborhood advocacy, City Council designated December 1, 2018 as Westinghouse Park Centennial Day. The declaration marked 100 years since the city acquired Solitude, the former estate of George and Marguerite Westinghouse.
Shortly after that declaration, I and a group of other interested individuals organized the Westinghouse Park 2nd Century Coalition to continue advocating for the park and honoring the remarkable individual whose name it bears.
A prolific inventor and progressive industrialist whose companies have employed many hundreds of thousands of Pittsburghers, George Westinghouse arguably had a greater impact on the modern world than any person who ever called this city home.
His accomplishments and those of the companies he founded here, including Westinghouse Air Brake, Union Switch and Signal, Westinghouse Electric, and his natural gas empire, are so vast and varied, their total impact has never been calculated.
The WP2CC achieved noteworthy accomplishments, including having the park declared eligible for listing on the national register of historic places and certified as an arboretum. Already a wonderful, well used, well-maintained park, Westinghouse will only get better in the coming years as the master development plan the city adopted two years ago becomes a reality. Its web site is www.westinghousepark.org
Three years ago, to advocate more effectively, the WP2CC evolved into The Westinghouse Legacy, a Pittsburgh-centric, Pennsylvania-registered, 501 C3 non-profit organization. Our mission remains the same: to advocate for the park and raise awareness of George Westinghouse, in Pittsburgh, across the country, and around the world.
Our website, TheWestinghouseLegacy.org, includes an expanding archive of information about George Westinghouse.
Our work is important, because despite George Westinghouse's enormous impact, The Westinghouse Legacy is presently the only entity on earth to honor him and advance his ideas and ideals. And we're doing it actively across a range of initiatives on which I'd be glad to elaborate, if I had more time.
I'll conclude by saying that your positive vote today will both further the declaration City Council made eight years ago and be a significant step toward advancing that vision. Thank you.