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Source: Mark Schneider, a real estate developer who pushed for the development of Heinz Field, PNC Park, and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, has died during a bicycle accident in western Maryland. He was 55. Officials with Schneider's firm, Fourth River Development, have confirmed his death but say few details about his accident in western Maryland are known. Schneider was on a bicycle trip with his son, Max, when he had an accident near Thurmont, Md. on Saturday. Schneider died at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon. Schneider pushed for the stadium development as chairman of the city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority and is well-known for his work on other landscape-changing projects in Pittsburgh including Summerset, an upscale housing development built on a former slag heap.
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Additional information from local newspaper reports:
Mark Schneider, had been taking part in 100-mile charity ride from Frederick Community College to Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., called the Catoctin Challenge. Schneider, an experienced cyclist who had participated in the annual ride for several years, was at the rear of a group of nine riders near the 8300 block of Ramsburg Road when he took a left turn down a hill and lost control of his bicycle.
Other riders report that they did not know exactly what happened, but it appeared as if Schneider lost control and slid sideways into a steel mailbox. The mailbox, as well as the steel pole and the concrete base to which the mailbox was attached, had been uprooted.
Schneider was wearing a helmet and the helmet had come off. Schneider’s bicycle appeared to be in fine condition.