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The North Shore Connector is a light-rail extension opened in 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The connector extends the Pittsburgh Light Rail system from its previous terminus at Gateway Center Station in the Central Business District to the new North Side Station and Allegheny Station on the North Shore by way of a tunnel under the Allegheny River.
In 1994, the Annex closed and all programming moved to the CSC, while the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh sought a new use or owner for the building. [ 13 ] In April 2002, Pittsburgh City Council approved the lease of the building and it is now part of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh . [ 14 ]
More than 1,000 people work on site which has become an attractive location for knowledge workers in Pittsburgh's new economy. The center was budgeted at $56.8 million ($127 million today) [1] during the summer of 1991. The total development cost, including public and private investment, exceeded $104 million.
The Center opened in October 1991. [11] On January 23, 2024, the Carnegie Science Center announced that they received a 65 million dollar donation from Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin. In honor of the donation they announced plans to rename the center to The Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center [12]
The center replaced a Greyhound station that was built in 1959 on the same property. At the time of its construction, the center cost US$50 million to build. [6] The plan for the transportation center started to come together in summer 2002. At that time, Greyhound approached the city, looking to rebuild its 40-year-old bus station.
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref. # 79002157, added June 22, 1979) [3] and is designated as a Pennsylvania state [4] and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation [5] historic landmark.
The design for Thaw Hall came from Henry Hornbostel's winning submission, termed the "Acropolis Plan", for a 1907 national competition to design a new campus for the University of Pittsburgh which was moving from its Observatory Hill campus to its current location in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Hornbostel's plan was begun in 1908 with ...
The Alcoa Building (a.k.a. the Regional Enterprise Tower) is a 410-foot-tall (120 m) skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1953 and has 31 floors. It is the 15th tallest building in the city and is adjacent to Mellon Square.