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Market Square. Downtown is home to numerous parks, large and small: Point State Park at the tip of the Golden Triangle; Mellon Square located in the square between Oliver & Sixth avenues and Smithfield Street and William Penn Place; Market Square at Forbes Avenue & Market Street; Mellon Green located at Grant Street & Sixth Avenue
As Spirit Square prepared to celebrate its 10th anniversary, a fund-raising campaign began in May 1986 for the rest of the $5.5 million expected cost. [3] A $6.5 million renovation and 7,300-square-foot addition completed in 1990 gave the arts center the building that had been desired since it began, and a new entrance at 345 North College Street.
Market Square is a public space located in Downtown Pittsburgh at the intersection of Forbes Avenue (originally named Diamond Way in colonial times) and Market Street. The square was home to the first courthouse and first jail (both in 1795), and the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Gazette (1786).
The U.S. city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was home to a "small, but busy" Chinatown, located at the intersection of Grant Street and Boulevard of the Allies in Downtown Pittsburgh where only one Chinese restaurant remains. The On Leong Society was located there. [1]
The population density was 1,836.2 inhabitants per square mile (709.0/km 2). There were 3,042 housing units at an average density of 890.7 per square mile (343.9/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the borough was 98.8% White , 0.2% African American , 0.2% Native American , 0.3% Asian , <0.1% from other races , and 0.5% from two or more races.
The first phase of the project included One Commerce Square, retail and restaurant space, a plaza, and an underground parking garage. Construction began with the first phase on June 10, 1985. [2] [3] [4] One Commerce Square was topped off with a ceremony on June 6, 1986, [5] and the skyscraper officially opened on October 23, 1987. [6]
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40th Street station was opened on November 6, 1955 by the Philadelphia Transportation Company, [1] built to replace the elevated station that opened in 1907 as part of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's (PRT) original Market Street subway–elevated line from 69th Street T.C. to 15th Street, which was elevated west of 23rd Street.