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18-404: Liberty Avenue may refer to: Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh) , Pennsylvania, U.S. Liberty Avenue (New York City) , New York, U.S. Liberty Avenue, Yerevan , Armenia Laisvės alėja , Kaunas, Lithuania Liberty Avenue station , a New York City Subway station Liberty Avenue (Lviv)  [ uk ] , Lviv , Ukraine Topics referred to by

36-658: A Market House was established in 1832 along Liberty Street between Sixth Street and Cecil Alley. Liberty also hosted food suppliers, brewers, and small manufacturers. In 1894, the Joseph Horne department store was built there. In the early 20th century, the Clark Building (named for the Clark candy company) and the Second National Bank were built. At length, it became a home for theater and movies, with

54-589: A years-long extensive $ 3.6 million redesign and repavement that was completed by 1991. Liberty Avenue is a main road through the Strip District . It is the home to many businesses, mostly offices and business-to-business service and product providers. The factory to manufacture George Westinghouse 's air brakes was located at 2425 Liberty. This has now become the home of the Pittsburgh Opera . There are few retail establishments on Liberty Avenue in

72-680: Is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States . It is a one-half square mile area of land northeast of the central business district bordered to the north by the Allegheny River and to the south by portions of the Hill District . The Strip District runs between 11th and 33rd Streets and includes four main thoroughfares—Railroad Street/Waterfront Place, Smallman Street, Penn Avenue , and Liberty Avenue —as well as various side streets. A warehouse district that

90-419: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh) A survey of Pittsburgh in 1784 already shows a Liberty Street in its present location. It is also called Liberty Street in a map from 1860. Beginning in the 19th century, the thoroughfare became a place of middle- and upper-class commerce. A history of Pittsburgh notes that

108-489: Is in someways compensated by retail and leisure facilities which are used primarily on weekends. Particularly in the summer months, there are open-air farmers' markets, a range of street vendors and facilities to enjoy open air drinks. Residential developers have begun to convert old factory and warehouse buildings into apartments and lofts . Examples include the Armstrong Cork Factory, Brake House Lofts, and

126-912: The Stanley Theatre , the Lowe's Penn and the Harris Theatre . However, much of this activity was checked, first by the Great Depression , and then by the St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936. Some businesses were closed, and others moved elsewhere. A section of Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh became a red-light district in the 1970s and 1980s, hosting the city's sex industry , including burlesque houses , strip bars , and peep shows , and attracting vice and crime. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust , formed in 1984, worked over

144-508: The Otto Milk Building. The area is the long-time home of the renowned Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre . More recently, the area has attracted a number of technology companies and become a hotbed for autonomous vehicle and robotics technology. The area is home to Uber 's Advanced Technology Group, which leads the company's vehicular automation efforts, as well Argo AI and Aurora Innovation. Other technology companies with offices in

162-597: The Strip District include Apple , Facebook , Denso , Robert Bosch GmbH , Target Corporation , Wombat Security, JazzHR, Petuum, and BossaNova Robotics. The Strip District has five land borders, including Downtown to the southwest, Crawford-Roberts , Bedford Dwellings and Polish Hill to the south, and Lower Lawrenceville to the northeast. Across the Allegheny River, the Strip runs adjacent with

180-411: The Strip District was the economic center of Pittsburgh. By the mid-to-late 20th century, fewer of the Strip's products were being shipped by rail and boat, causing many produce sellers and wholesalers to leave the area for other space with easier access to highways, or where there was more land available for expansion. In the early 21st century, there are still several wholesalers and produce dealers in

198-399: The Strip District, but some estimates say more than 80% of the produce industry left the area, preceded by the manufacturing plants and mills in the mid to late 20th century restructuring of industry. Today, many of the abandoned warehouses have been renovated as small specialty shops, restaurants, nightclubs , and bars . The historic St. Stanislaus Kostka Church , an 1891 landmark built in

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216-673: The Strip District. Liberty Avenue is the site of the main business district in Bloomfield . Liberty Avenue is also home to West Penn Hospital as well as many small store fronts. A semi-fictionalized version of Liberty Avenue is featured prominently in the American version of the television program Queer as Folk . The entire route is in Pittsburgh , Allegheny County . 40°27′19″N 79°58′34″W  /  40.45537°N 79.97617°W  / 40.45537; -79.97617 Strip District, Pittsburgh The Strip District

234-401: The manufacturing companies attracted other types of merchants to set up shop in the Strip. By the early 20th century, the Strip District became a vibrant network of wholesalers—mostly fresh produce, meat, and poultry dealers. Soon, auction houses rose around the wholesale warehouses. Many restaurants and grocery stores opened to feed hungry shift workers at any hour of the day. By the 1920s,

252-657: The next 25 years to transform the area into the Cultural District , a center for the arts, eventually bringing the August Wilson Center for African American Culture , Bricolage Production Company , Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company , the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Arts Education Center, and a museum of cartoon art, The ToonSeum , to Liberty Avenue. Liberty Avenue in the downtown area underwent

270-414: The ornate Polish Cathedral style , lies in the heart of the Strip District and served early generations of Polish immigrants. Since the late 20th century, the area has developed into a historic market district with many ethnic food purveyors, some art studios, antique dealers, unique boutiques, and other businesses setting up shop where trains once delivered produce by the ton. The lack of weekday activity

288-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Liberty Avenue . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberty_Avenue&oldid=1178198912 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

306-453: Was once home to many mills and factories, today the Strip District is a destination for groceries, restaurants, bars, and art. Recently, it has become home to dozens of tech and robotics companies as well as a rapidly growing residential population. In the early 19th century, the Strip District was home to many mills and factories as its location along the Allegheny River made for easy transportation of goods and shipping of raw materials. It

324-551: Was the home of the Fort Pitt Foundry , source of large cannons before and during the American Civil War , including a 20-inch (510 mm) bore Rodman Gun . Early industrial tenants of the Strip District included U.S. Steel , Westinghouse , The Pittsburgh Reduction Company (ALCOA) , and later The H.J. Heinz Company , famous ketchup and condiment manufacturer. The shipping infrastructure built around

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