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Project Greek Island (previously code-named "Project Casper" [1]) was a United States government continuity program located at the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. [2] The facility was decommissioned in 1992 after the program was exposed by The Washington Post. It is now known as the Greenbrier Bunker.
The hotel served as a diplomatic detention center until July 8, 1942. [15] [16] The hotel briefly reopened for the 1942 season, but was soon commandeered by the U.S. Army for use as a hospital. The Army paid $3.3 million for the property, which had been valued at $5.4 million, and took over control of the property on September 1, 1942.
There are nine Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. [1] 120 PNC Financial Services (financial) 220 PPG Industries (industrial) 226 Howmet Aerospace (industrial) 245 Wesco International (industrial) 254 Viatris (pharmaceuticals) 310 U.S. Steel (industrial) 330 Alcoa (metals/mining) 362 Dick's Sporting Goods ...
The Greenbrier Tip-Off, operated by IntersportHoops is an early-preseason American college basketball tournament held in November of each year that takes place in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia at Colonial Hall inside the resort hotel The Greenbrier.
525 William Penn Place (also known as the Citizens Bank Tower) is a skyscraper located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1951 for the Mellon National Bank and the U.S. Steel Corporation. At 520 feet (160 m) tall, it was the second-tallest building in Pittsburgh until 1970, and the third
The Gateway Center is a complex of office, residential, and hotel buildings covering 25 acres (10 ha) [1] in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It lies between Commonwealth Place and Stanwix Street at the western edge of the central business district, immediately to the east of Point State Park .
The station was built in 1930 or 1931 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) to serve passengers on the new Pullman rail coaches to The Greenbrier resort hotel. [2] The current brick building replaced a wooden structure that was built in the early 1900s. [2] It is directly across from the entrance to The Greenbrier grounds.
The Heinz 57 Center is an office building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the corner of Sixth and Smithfield Avenues. The building has approximately 790,000 square feet (73,000 m 2), standing 13 stories (190 feet (58 m)) tall.