The Waterfront
The open hearth stacks from US Steel's Homestead Works, left to pay homage to the complex's former use as a steel mill
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| Location | Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall |
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| Coordinates | 40°24′40″N 79°54′40″W / 40.41111°N 79.91111°WCoordinates: 40°24′40″N 79°54′40″W / 40.41111°N 79.91111°W |
| Opening date | 1999 |
| Developer | Continental Real Estate Companies[2] and Nationwide Realty Investors Ltd.[3] |
| Owner | M&J Wilkow, Ltd.[4] |
| No. of stores and services | 50 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 8 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 (open-air, Macy's and AMC are two levels) |
| Website | http://www.waterfrontpgh.com/ |
The Waterfront is a super-regional open air shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead, and Munhall near Pittsburgh. The shopping mall sits on land once occupied by U.S. Steel's Homestead Steel Works plant, which closed in 1986. It has a gross leasable area of 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) in "The Waterfront" and 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) in "The Town Center." The development officially opened in 1999. More development continued into the early 21st century.
The Waterfront is accessible from the Parkway East via the Homestead High-Level Bridge, now known as the Homestead Grays Bridge. Pennsylvania Route 837, which runs through the town of Homestead also connects drivers to The Waterfront via Amity Street and Waterfront Drive.
From its storied past, only smokestacks remain on the site that once helped to give Pittsburgh the name "Steel City."
In 2005, Industrial Workers of the World celebrated their 100th Anniversary, having formed in 1905 out of the palpable labor struggles of that era. The local celebration included events held at the Pump House on the site of The Waterfront.http://www.iww.org/en/taxonomy/term/244/all?page=2
The Pump House is the location of the landing of the Pinkertons who navigated the river in 1892 with the intention to provide security at the plant that was subject to a labor strike of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers at the instruction of Henry Clay Frick. The battle that followed, known as the Homestead Strike / Battle of Homestead, left sixteen people dead (23 wounded) and set back the cause of organizing the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh for decades. The Battle of Homestead is one of the most noted strikes in American Labor History.
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