Steel city gets ready for G20 Summit

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Pittsburgh city officials have been working overtime to promote the three-rivers town famously known as the "Steel City" for the G20 Summit.

When it was first announced that the Group of Twenty would be meeting in Pittsburgh, the reaction was mixed.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has being inundated with requests to explain why Pittsburgh was chosen to host this important international financial summit.

Luke Ravenstahl, Pittsburgh Mayor, said, "Right now those are unfamiliar with Pittsburgh, often times refer to it as an old town, a smokey town, a dirty town and what they'll see when they visit Pittsburgh this week is the fact that that's changed. We are now a green town, we are a clean town."

The White House said it picked Pennsylvania's second largest city to showcase its recovery from the collapsed center of the steel industry in the late 1970s to a modern city.

Unemployment in the city is lower than the national average. There's a thriving healthcare industry, and it boasts a number of green industries.