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Atlanta-based trucking company owner to bring new Skybox soul food restaurant to key location in the Strip District

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

WPXI SKYBOX LOCATION The one-time Smallman Galley location in the Strip District on 21st Street is now slated to become Skybox, by entrepreneur and Pittsburgh native Robert Jackson. Skybox will focus on Southern cuisine and live entertainment and also appeal as a sports bar. (tim schooley)

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — Robert Jackson could always taste something missing whenever he came back to Pittsburgh.

A North Side native who moved south about 20 years ago where he started a successful trucking company in Atlanta, Jackson realized that Pittsburgh was lacking good soul food restaurants. So he’s decided to open one himself, connecting with childhood friends who are well-established chefs in town to help him to do it.

Just the location in which to do it became evident when he met a friend for breakfast at Pamela’s in the Strip District, he said, and discovered a vacant restaurant space next door once occupied by Smallman Galley, a busy food hall in which three different operators served out their own restaurant foods.

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