Market Square Attracts New Development

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- As the weather warms up, so does Market Square.

"The Square's been packed, and with all this warm weather we've been thinking maybe we should bring those tables and chairs out a little early this year," said Jeremy Waldrup of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.

And why not?

Market Square continues to attract city, suburban, and out-of-towners to the center of downtown Pittsburgh.

"There are 22 restaurants and businesses that front Market Square, 13 of them are new in the last five or six years," said Waldrup.

The newest addition is Millcraft Industries' Tower-at-Two-Sixty, featuring the Hilton Garden Inn with 196 rooms and a two-story restaurant -- Revel & Roost -- with casual dining downstairs and fine dining upstairs.

Owner/developer Lucas Piatt is high on Market Square.

"We think it's the most successful spot in Downtown. It's just going to continue to get better and better every day," Piatt told KDKA money editor Jon Delano on The Sunday Business Page.

That includes the new Market Square Garage for easy parking.

The Hilton Garden Inn and Revel & Roost are only the latest additions to Market Square.

KDKA has learned there's a whole lot more coming in the months ahead.

When Highwoods Properties acquired the PPG complex, it integrated its frontage into the Square, first with Five Guys Burgers and then with Poros Seafood.

Now this fall it will add a new pub-restaurant called City Works.

"City Works is a beer-centric concept. It is 90-tap beer -- no bottled beers at all. We actually have 8-tap wines," says Jason Ackemann of City Works.

Ackemann was in from Chicago to inspect the project.

"To be able to have access to Market Square is amazing to us," says Ackemann.

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More changes are likely.

The owner of the one-story corner site where Cherries and Moe's Southwest now operate may build up when leases expire in 2018.

"It could be non-food retail at street level with residential above," notes David Glickman, with Glickman Real Estate, the owner of the property.

That would be the end of two popular restaurants but another sign of Market Square's growing market value.