Sala Udin said he was about 7 years old in 1950 when rumors began circulating that his family would be forced to move from their home on the corner of Fullerton and Epiphany streets in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District neighborhood.
Udin, a Pittsburgh Public School board member, on Friday recalled being pushed out to make way for the now-defunct Civic Arena.
“The question we had was: Move where? Who said we had to move? Why do we have to move? What’s going to happen to our friends? Where are we going to go to school? All those were questions that did not come with answers,” Udin said Friday during a University of Pittsburgh symposium about displacement in the city. “As a child, I just couldn’t imagine why my neighborhood was going to be destroyed.”…