Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The remainder was named Forbes Street in honor of John Forbes (1707–1759), [1] whose expedition recaptured Fort Duquesne and who renamed the place Pittsburgh in 1758. In 1958 during the administration of Mayor David L. Lawrence , Diamond Street and Forbes Street were renamed and combined as Forbes Avenue.
South Hills Village is a two-level shopping mall that is located in the Pittsburgh suburbs of Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The mall's anchor stores are Macy's, Von Maur, Target, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Barnes & Noble.
In 2007, new tenants were announced for the Shoppes at Northway, including a shoe store and a family play center. [4] Value City and Old Navy closed in 2008, while the family play center (the Kid Company, which replaced the food court) existed only briefly. Borders closed its store at Northway in 2011 in response to the company's liquidation.
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]
A history of Pittsburgh notes that a Market House was established in 1832 along Liberty Street between Sixth Street and Cecil Alley. [3] Liberty also hosted food suppliers, brewers, and small manufacturers. In 1894, the Joseph Horne department store was built there.
Ames liquidated and closed all of its stores in 2002, leaving Giant Eagle as the plaza's sole anchor tenant for the next 19 years. Gradually, many of the smaller stores left, leaving a few retailers and a small handful of mom-and-pop businesses and doctor offices as of July 2013. In 2006, the roof at the former J. C. Penney location collapsed.
By the 1920s, the Strip District was the economic center of Pittsburgh. By the mid-to-late 20th century, fewer of the Strip's products were being shipped by rail and boat, causing many produce sellers and wholesalers to leave the area for other space with easier access to highways, or where there was more land available for expansion.
Ross Park Mall is a shopping mall located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh.The mall features JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom and Dick's House of Sport.. With 170 stores, Ross Park Mall is currently the sixth-largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania.