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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]
By the 1950s, the Chinese community had exited the neighborhood, leaving this Chinatown extinct today. Pittsburgh, with Carnegie Mellon University, has an Asian community and has remnants of the historic Chinatown exist on a strip with several restaurants and a Chinese pagoda-styled arch.
The Union Trust Building is a high-rise building located in the Downtown district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at 501 Grant Street. It was erected in 1915–16 by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The Flemish-Gothic structure's original purpose was to serve as a shopping arcade.
Restaurants are some of the most visible businesses in Chinatown to show signs of distress, but Young emphasizes that restaurants are just one facet of the community facing deep economic hardships.
One of the most recognizable restaurants in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Plum Tree Inn served Peking duck and Szechuan standbys for more than 40 years until June 2020. It was the last of a handful of ...
The street's location on "Grant's Hill" strangled growth in downtown Pittsburgh, leading to several attempts in 1836 and 1849 to regrade the area to remove the hill. [2] The successful removal of the hill in 1912 cost $800,000 ($25.3 million in 2023 dollars), plus $2.5 million in reimbursement costs for property damaged by the project ($78.9 ...
In May, Gov. Gavin Newsom committed $250 million for downtown Fresno, $20 million of that will pay for street improvements, sidewalks, curbs and gutters in Chinatown and downtown Fresno. Chinatown ...
[10] [11] The Boulevard at Grant Street was once home to Pittsburgh's Chinatown until the 1950s. [12] View of Boulevard of the Allies in downtown Pittsburgh. U.S. Route 22 and U.S. Route 30 were designated along the William Penn and Lincoln Highways through Pittsburgh in 1926; the Boulevard of the Allies bypass alignment was chosen for both ...