News & Stories
Progress is happening in downtown Pittsburgh — and we’re pleased to share it here! Our News & Stories section highlights media coverage, original content, and exciting updates about revitalization efforts across the city.
- Economic Development
Jennie Reyes and her shop AZ Home Details throw open the doors on Seventh Avenue with an unmistakable warmth, serving up seasonal goodies for residents, employees and visitors.
- Housing
Across the downtown skyline, iconic forms are adapting new functions. While they’ll never scrape steely skies or bear a corporate logo, they punctuate the landscape with personality and surprising history.
- Economic Development
Peer and benchmark cities that recently welcomed the NFL Draft offer a playbook for visitor traffic and media exposure as Pittsburgh warms up to host the 2026 event.
- Economic Development
From its locus in downtown Pittsburgh, the AI Hub at BNY draws talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious computer science programs while capturing the expertise of the investment company’s technical geniuses around the world.
- Economic Development
The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) released data showing a 100 percent recovery of pre-pandemic visitor traffic in Downtown in July 2024.
- Economic Development
Ahead of its 15th anniversary, an upcoming music festival and a new comic book exhibition, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center is thriving under the leadership of president and CEO Janis Burley.
- Economic Development
President and CEO of Riverlife Matt Galluzzo discusses Pittsburgh’s riverfront development and how downtown Pittsburgh, known for its confluence of three rivers, can make the most of its geography with expanded access along the water.
- Placemaking Project
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Allegheny County, and the City of Pittsburgh propose a vision plan to guide the next phase of civic space and public realm transformation for a downtown of the future.