Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 15222 - {Gateway Station}
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member outdoorboy34
N 40° 26.597 W 080° 00.285
17T E 584402 N 4477434
The Gateway Station Post Office is located at 625 Stanwix Street in the Gateway Center Complex in Downtown Pittsburgh, Alleghny County, Pennsylvania.
Waymark Code: WMKNGK
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 05/06/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member PTCrazy
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania {Gateway Station} - 15222

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY THIS POST OFFICE SERVES
The Gateway Station Post Office serves 3,163 individuals. There are a total of 1,686 households in its service area, having an average home value of $273,800 and a median household income of $58,319. These facts are provided in part by Zip-Codes.com. It should also be noted because of the commercial district here, there are 1,827 business mailboxes at Gateway, compared to the 2,415 Residential Mailboxes.

ABOUT THE POST OFFICE
The Post Office is located within the parking garage of the Gateway Center Complex. The Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a high-rise building complex with 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of office space in five buildings. The plans developed during World War II to redevelop the dense and "blighted" forks of the Ohio River into both Point State Park and a "Gateway" of offices. It was announced as fully financed on September 21, 1949 when the Equitable Insurance Co. of New York agreed to underwrite the project after securing lease agreements from Westinghouse, Mellon Financial and other major corporations.[1] Although mainly a run down warehouse district the Center did require the demolition of the 1904 Beaux Arts 11 floor Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal. Gateway Center was purchased in 2004 by Hertz Investment Group, a Los Angeles, California, based real estate investment company, for US$55 million. Eggers & Higgins, architects on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial were the architects for the first three buildings, One, Two and Three Gateway Center.

In May 2013, the National Park Service designated a historic district named the "Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District" in downtown Pittsburgh, and the Gateway Center buildings were included in the district as some of its major contributing properties.

Some Major Tenants Include:

  • Dollar Bank, corporate headquarters in Three Gateway Center
  • BodyMedia Inc., corporate headquarters in One Gateway Center
  • KDKA-TV and KDKA radio studios in One Gateway Center.
  • Industrial Appraisal Company, corporate headquarters in Two Gateway Center

POST OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday: Closed

Type of structure:: Commercial Building

re-enter Zip Code here:: 15222

Current Status:: Still in Use
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