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Located at the northern corner of The Golden Triangle, The Pennsylvanian positions you at the city's very center – its beating heart, and the core of its history. The Golden Triangle, as it's known to insiders and Pennsylvania aficionados alike, is Pittsburgh''s downtown business district – an urban network of streets and bridges, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to join with the grand Ohio River. The "triangle" structure of downtown is, hence, formed by these two rivers. The "golden" part of the equation comes from the fact that this area has historically been the city's commercial center – housing major corporations the likes of Mellon Financial, Heinz, Federated Investors, PNC Bank, US Steel, PPG, and Alcoa. This is the very spot where industrial barons such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and George Westinghouse made their fortunes, cladding their success in: gold.
Also aiding to connect the "golden" part of the Golden Triangle are the many bridges that are painted a special Aztec Gold, in honor of the city''s "golden" traditions. As you will soon find out when you reach The Pennsylvanian, Pittsburgh is called the "City of Bridges" with good reason. A great part of uniting the city's rivers - bits and pieces - one to the other are these very bridges. City-wide there are 446 bridges. In Allegheny County the number exceeds 2,200.
At the Pennsylvanian you will be near many of these bridges, giving you easy access in and out of the neighborhoods you would like to travel to and from. You will also be saturated by the city's aforementioned history, as well as its attractions.
Here at The Pennsylvanian these are just a few of the historic sites you will be near:
- Allegheny Center
- Convention Center
- Vista Hotel and Federated Investors Tower
- Federal Building
- Federal court House/U.S. Post Office
- Civic Arena
- Benedum Center
- Heinz Hall
- CNG Tower
- Oliver Plaza
- Fifth Avenue Place
- Market Square
- Mellon Square
- Westin William Penn Hote
- One Mellon Bank Center
- Allegheny County Court House
- One Oxford Center
- Duquesne University
- Pittsburgh's Produce 'Strip' District
- Robert Morris College
- City/County Building
- The Boardwalk
- Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines
- Station Square
- Kaufmann's
- Mercy Hospital
- Carnegie Science Center
- Omni William Penn
- PNC Park
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