page_title: Downtown Pittsburgh
section_title: Parks and plazas
hierarchical_section_title: Downtown Pittsburgh / Parks and plazas
caption_attribution_description: English: An afternoon in March in Pittsburgh's Market Square.
context_page_description: Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose joining forms the Ohio River. The "triangle" is bounded by the two rivers. The area features offices for major corporations such as PNC Bank, U.S. Steel, PPG, Bank of New York Mellon, Heinz, Federated Investors and Alcoa. It is where the fortunes of such industrial barons as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Henry J. Heinz, Andrew Mellon and George Westinghouse were made. It contains the site where the French fort, Fort Duquesne, once stood.
  In 2013, Pittsburgh had the second-lowest vacancy rate for Class A space among downtowns in the United States.
context_section_description: 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
  FirstSide Park located between Grant & Ross streets and First & Second avenues.
  Gateway Center plazas located around the Gateway Center skyscrapers near Liberty Avenue & Stanwix Street
  Plaza at PPG Place near Third Avenue & Market Street
  US Steel Tower Plaza at Grant Street & Sixth Avenue
  Katz Plaza at Penn Avenue & Seventh Street
  Triangle Park bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fifth Avenue & Market Street
  Allegheny Riverfront Park along the Allegheny River below Fort Duquesne Boulevard
  Mon Wharf Landing along the Monongahela River below Fort Pitt Boulevard (under construction)
  North Shore Riverfront Park opposite Downtown along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, part of the larger Three Rivers Park
caption: Market Square
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