Waterfront ripples: Homestead development boosts Mon Valley. (Editorials).(Brief Article)

The redevelopment of the site of U.S. Steel's Homestead Works into the Waterfront was a godsend for the Mon Valley.

Or least it should be someday soon.

As Business Times reporter Suzanne Elliott wrote in a front- page story last week, the Waterfront development is bustling with holiday activity while the Mon Valley inches along, measuring economic development in much smaller increments.

Some old-line business owners are happy for the success of the Waterfront, but chafe at the slow pace of trickle-down benefits.

We're glad they are impatient.

Such feelings need to be funneled into improving their businesses and formulating concrete …