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Jenny Lee Bakery was a prominent bakery in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. [1] [2] The bakery was founded in 1938 by cousins Paul Baker and Bernard McDonald. The name came from the song "Sweet Jenny Lee from Sunny Tennessee", which was playing on the radio while the pair was traveling to a business meeting. [3] It closed in 2008.
Sign commemorating the visit of President Barack Obama.. The main Bakery Square building was built as a Nabisco factory in 1918 and operated until 1998. [2] Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwest Pennsylvania bought the building in 1999 and leased it to the Atlantic Baking Company, [3] [4] which was subsequently merged with Bake-Line Group and then went bankrupt in 2004. [5]
In 1849, James Ward and his son, Hugh Ward, who came from Belfast, Ireland, opened a small bakery on Broome Street in New York City. In 1884, Hugh Ward and his son Robert Boyd Ward moved to Allegheny city (now, Pittsburgh) and opened a new bakery there. [3] The Ward Bread Company was organized by Robert B. Ward in New York, Brooklyn and Newark ...
The Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad was, and the Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad is, located in an area along the river known as the "Bottoms". The McKees Rocks Bridge, which carries traffic between McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh, is the longest bridge in Allegheny County, at 7,293 feet (2,223 m).
Shop 'n Save Supermarkets (stylized as SHOP 'N SAVE) is a discount grocery store headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The brand has around 70 different stores in the Mid-Atlantic , each locally owned and operated.
In 1884, German-American Henry J. Heinz purchased several lots on the north bank of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. [6] From 1888 through 1906, approximately twenty buildings were built or purchased, mostly of wood and beam construction. [7] From 1906 through 1930, new buildings in the complex were made of steel and concrete instead of wood.
The entire Allegheny Redevelopment Area encompasses approximately 79 acres (320,000 m 2) on the North Side, about a half-mile from downtown Pittsburgh. The project converted what had been an open, walkable business district into an enclosed mall called Allegheny Center Mall that had few pedestrian entrances and sat above an underground parking ...
A number of spaces, such as the former Party City, Ritz Camera and Csonka Optical storefronts, remained vacant. Mamma Lucia's, an Italian restaurant located in the mall since 1974, announced their intentions to close effective December 31, 2014.