Pittsburgh is ready to “redd up” in time for the NFL draft next April, when the city will host hundreds of thousands of people during one of the league’s biggest annual events.

Local leaders, including Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, gathered on the North Shore Wednesday morning to mark the launch of Allegheny CleanWays’ “Immaculate Collection” — a play on Steelers’ running back Franco Harris’s “Immaculate Reception” in 1972 — which will lead a wide-ranging cleanup and beautification effort around the city and beyond over the next several months.

“The Draft is going to let people know that we are no longer a Rust Belt city, but a city driven by technology, medicine and education,” Mayor Gainey said.

Allegheny CleanWays estimates that it has col

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