(Photo Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Construction started on the new Pittsburgh Walk of Fame in the city’s Strip District on Thursday. A bronze star and a plaque will be embedded into granite blocks for each inductee. These granite blocks were being worked on by crews along the sidewalk located in front of the Terminal Building at 18th Street for ten inductees. These inductees are as follows: a writer for journals, the late Nellie Bly, an industrialist, the late Andew Carnegie, an environmentalist, the late Rachel Carson, a baseball player, the late Roberto Clemente, a children’s television host, the late Fred Rodgers, a medical researcher, the late Dr. Jonas Salk, an artist, the late Andy Warhol, a playwright, the late August Wilson, jazz guitarist George Benson and actor Michael Keaton. Keaton will also be present at this event for his induction into the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame. A ribbon-cutting and induction ceremony that is open to the public for those being added to the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame will be held on Monday, October 20th at 10:30 a.m. Smallman Street between 17th Street and 21st Street will be closed for this event.