PITTSBURG — Pittsburg is taking a chapter from the past and reshaping the city into a regional hub by seizing opportunities in technology, energy, sports tourism and industrial redevelopment, the city’s mayor said.

A century ago, the city’s pioneers turned a community that thrived on fishing and canning into a coal-fueled era that helped build the local economy, said Mayor Jelani Killings.

Pittsburg eventually turned into an industrial city with the vision of Charles Appleton Hooper, dubbed the local “Father of Industry,” as he helped shape its economy, said Killings.

“The city’s early pioneers didn’t just wait for opportunity, they created, they took raw land and raw ambition and turned them into a thriving city of builders, workers and dreams,” said Killings during a state of the city

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