Salinger was among a crowd of postwar writers whom Leslie Fiedler called Teenage Impersonators, along with Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

“It’s all about jobs and investment, and that’s our primary goal for selling this property,” Mr. Fiedler said.

Heather Starr Fiedler, an associate professor of multimedia at Point Park University, believes the pros of a municipality using social media outweigh the cons.