August Wilson Center Silva Cell Trees

We’ve received a lot of ques­tions about the trees out­side of August Wil­son Cen­ter in the 900 block of Lib­er­ty Avenue Down­town. Tree Pitts­burgh plant­ed those 10 trees using new Sil­va Cell tech­nol­o­gy in 2009. This pilot project was the first instal­la­tion of Sil­va Cells in Penn­syl­va­nia. The trees were arguably the best-look­ing trees in all of Down­town thanks to the extra TLC they received over the years.

The trees went from healthy to dead in the mat­ter of a few months. We sus­pect this is due to the harsh win­ter and high salt usage. We are dis­ap­point­ed to see such a suc­cess­ful project fail due to some­thing avoidable.

If you want to make sure your trees don’t meet the same fate, read our infor­ma­tion on prop­er win­ter­i­za­tion and salt alter­na­tives.  We have writ­ten a pro­pos­al for fund­ing to replace the trees, so stay tuned!