The company closed the Duquesne Works in 1984. The mighty Homestead Works — for many years the largest steel mill in the world — went dormant in 1986. In 1953, some 650,000 Americans worked in ...

the Levine Cava administration removed the land for the proposed stadium from what was a 123-acre parcel designed for a private steel mill that investors want to build outside the Homestead base.