THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF WQEDS PITTSBURGH HISTORY SERIES Sebak: YOU KNOW, FOLKS AROUND HERE DON'T MIND TALKING UP DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

WELL, YOU KNOW, DOWNTOWN HAS A LOT GOING FOR IT.

DOWNTOWN IS MORE LIKE THE HEART OF THE CITY, AND THAT'S THE HEART OF ANY CITY.

IT'S A VERY VIBRANT DOWNTOWN, ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

Waldrup: WE'RE A CITY THAT'S GOT A LOT OF OLD ROOTS BUT A LOT MODERN COMPONENTS TO IT, AS WELL.

Ko: AS AN ARCHITECT, I LOOK AT BUILDINGS HERE IN DOWNTOWN.

I WOULD SAY YOU HAVE AN INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF BUILDINGS HERE.

Eddie: I THINK JUST FOR PEOPLE-WATCHING ALONE, THIS IS JUST A GREAT PLACE TO SEE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.

Sebak: BACK IN 1992, WE MADE A PROGRAM TITLED "DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH."

IT WAS A CELEBRATION OF BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE AND UNEXPECTED BITS OF THE CITY.

IT'S CHANGED.

THE CITY HAS CHANGED.

BETWEEN 2000 AND 2009 WHEN I CAME BACK, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE, THE CHANGE, AND THEY'VE CONTINUED TO MOVE IT THAT WAY.

Joe: I THINK YOU SEE A LOT MORE LIFE DOWNTOWN THAN YOU DID 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO, DEFINITELY.

Thompson: THERE'S A RESTAURANT AT EVERY CORNER.

THERE'S SOMETHING TO EAT EVERYWHERE YOU GO.

THERE'S SO MANY THINGS TO DO.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY LIVE IN TOWN.

HOW ABOUT THAT?

THERE'S AN INCREDIBLE BOOM GOING ON AT POINT PARK AND IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH RIGHT NOW.

Sebak: SO MAYBE IT'S TIME TO LOOK AROUND DOWNTOWN AGAIN.

WE'RE CALLING THIS "RETURN TO DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH," HOPING YOU WILL CONSIDER IT A SUGGESTION AS WELL AS A SEQUEL.

Liza: I DON'T MIND DRIVING DOWN HERE.

I DON'T MIND COMING DOWN HERE.

IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO BE.

YOU KNOW, DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH REALLY IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE ALL SHARE.

"RETURN TO DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY PNC.

FOR MORE THAN 160 YEARS, PNC HAS BEEN HEADQUARTERED IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH COMMITTED TO ENRICHING THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE WE SUPPORT THE RESURGENCE OF PITTSBURGH AND THOSE WHO MAKE THE CITY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY.

AND BY THE BUHL FOUNDATION -- SERVING SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SINCE 1927 ALSO BY THE EQT FOUNDATION, SUPPORTER OF INNOVATIVE LOCAL PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY INITATIVES IN OUR REGION.

BY POINT PARK UNIVERSITY -- INNOVATING AND EDUCATING IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH SINCE 1933.

AND BY THE PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.

Sebak: WHEN YOU LOOK AT DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, YOU OFTEN START AT THE POINT -- THE POINT WHERE THE MONONGAHELA AND THE ALLEGHENY COME TOGETHER TO FORM THE OHIO RIVER.

THE FOCAL POINT OF OUR CITY, WHERE SINCE 1974, THERE'S BEEN A FOUNTAIN -- A BEAUTIFUL, IMPRESSIVE FOUNTAIN IN A 36-ACRE PARK CALLED POINT STATE PARK.

BEFORE THE FIRST PITTSBURGH RENAISSANCE IN THE 1940s AND '50s, HOWEVER, THE CITY ITSELF CAME ALL THE WAY TO THE POINT.

Pelesky: IT DID.

THIS USED TO BE AN URBAN AREA.

THERE WAS A TRAIN STATION HERE.

THERE WERE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVING IN THE BLOCK HOUSE, WHICH IS OVER THERE.

IT WAS TWO FAMILIES LIVING IN THE BLOCK HOUSE.

IT WAS A RAILYARD.

IT WAS A SLUM.

THERE WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS HERE AT POINT STATE PARK.

Sebak: THAT'S ANDY PELESKY, POINT STATE PARK'S MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR.

HE AND HIS CREW TAKE CARE OF THE FOUNTAIN, AND IN THE WARMER MONTHS, THEY TURN IT ON EVERY DAY, USUALLY AROUND 7:00 A.M.

Pelesky: FIRST THING YOU DO -- YOU COME IN, YOU OPEN THE DOOR, YU WALK IN THE BUILDING.

AND YOU TURN A VACUUM PUMP ON TO MAKE SURE THE WATER IS IN THE PUMP AND THEN PUSH A BUTTON.

AND YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE GAUGES TO MAKE SURE THE PUMP IS ACTUALLY RUNNING AND PUMPING WATER, 'CAUSE YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE THE FOUNTAIN FROM IN THE BUILDING WHERE YOU'RE TURNING THE PUMPS ON.

SO YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE PRESSURE GAUGES TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING.

INITIALLY, WE START THE WATERFALL PUMPS.

THERE'S TWO PUMPS THAT DRIVE THE WATERFALL, WHICH WAS NEVER THERE BEFORE.

THAT WAS AN ADDED FEATURE WHEN THEY RENOVATED THE FOUNTAIN IN 2013.

Sebak: YES, THE FOUNTAIN WAS SHUT OFF FOR FOUR YEARS STARTING IN 2009.

IT WAS REFURBISHED AND RESTARTED IN 2013.

Pelesky: THERE'S TWO PUMPS THAT WE RUN FOR THE MAIN CENTER COLUMN, AND THEN THERE'S ONE PUMP THAT DRIVES THE THREE PEACOCK SPRAYS.

WE CALL THE CENTER JET THE MAIN COLUMN OF WATER.

AND THE OTHER THREE PEACOCK SPRAYS SIGNIFY THE THREE RIVERS -- THE ALLEGHENY, THE MONONGAHELA, AND THE OHIO.

IT TAKES ABOUT 15 MINUTES IN THE MORNING TO GET THE FOUNTAIN UP AND RUNNING FROM START TO FINISH.

AND THEN YOU CAN WALK OUT THE DOOR AND SEE THAT THE FOUNTAIN'S ACTUALLY RUNNING.

THE FOUNTAIN, FROM WALL TO WALL, THE DIAMETER OF THE FOUNTAIN IS ABOUT 200 FEET, SO WE RUN THE CENTER COLUMN AT ABOUT 150 FEET.

BUT THERE'S AN ANEMOMETER ATTACHED TO THE FOUNTAIN PUMP SYSTEM.

WHEN THE WIND SPEED GOES UP AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, THE FOUNTAIN LEVEL GOES DOWN SO THAT ALL THE WATER DOESN'T BLOW OUT OF THE FOUNTAIN.

THE HIGHER THE WIND SPEED, THE LOWER THE FOUNTAIN.

AND THEN IT'S ALL AUTOMATIC.

WHEN THE WIND DIES DOWN, THE FOUNTAIN GOES BACK UP ALL BY ITSELF.

Sebak: SO, WOULD ANDY AND HIS CREW THINK OF THIS AS PART OF DOWNTOWN?

Pelesky: NOT ACTUALLY THE PARK, NO.

IT'S A GREEN SPACE AWAY FROM THE BUSTLE OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

IT'S A PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM THE NOISE AND THE TRAFFIC OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

THERE'S GRASS.

THERE'S TREES.

IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO COME AND JUST RELAX AND HANG OUT AND COLLECT YOUR THOUGHTS BY WATCHING THE FOUNTAIN.

PEOPLE LOVE IT.

IT'S THE ICON OF PITTSBURGH.

AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE IT'S MY PARK.

IT'S MY JOB TO TAKE CARE OF THAT FOUNTAIN AND THAT PARK, AND I SEE IT ON TV ALL THE TIME.

SO FROM APRIL TILL NOVEMBER, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 7:00 IN THE MORNING TILL 11:00 AT NIGHT.

Sebak: JUST EAST OF THE FOUNTAIN AND POINT STATE PARK ARE THE STREETS AND BUILDINGS, THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE THAT MAKE UP DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

WE MET UP WITH ARTHUR ZIEGLER, THE PRESIDENT OF THE PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION, WHO KNOWS THIS TERRITORY.

I WALK FROM STATION SQUARE SOMETIMES TWO OR THREE TIMES A DAY ALL YEAR-ROUND.

Sebak: HE KNOWS WHAT'S UNUSUAL ABOUT DOWNTOWN.

Ziegler: WHAT IS REALLY REMARKABLE AND WHAT ALMOST EVERY VISITOR REMARKS ON IS THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED AND ENCHANTED WITH OUR HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

AND THEY LOVE TO WALK THIS COMPRESSED DOWNTOWN.

YOU CAN WALK ALL OF DOWNTOWN AND SEE EVERYTHING IN A MORNING.

Sebak: WELL, PROBABLY NOT EVERYTHING, BUT A LOT.

IT'S DOWNTOWN.

Ziegler: IT WAS THE CENTER OF THINGS.

IT WAS PARTICULARLY THE CENTER OF THINGS WHEN WE HAD TROLLEYS AND WE DIDN'T HAVE EXPRESSWAYS.

PEOPLE CAME TO TOWN.

"WHERE DO YOU WANT TO MEET?"

"I'LL MEET YOU AT KAUFMANN'S CLOCK."

THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY DID HERE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS -- DECADES.

Sebak: PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS' CONCERN FOR DOWNTOWN WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING MANY BUILDINGS AND BLOCKS OF FASCINATING STRUCTURES, ESPECIALLY ALONG FIFTH AND FORBES AVENUES, THAT THE CITY WAS PROPOSING TO TEAR DOWN IN THE 1990s.

THEN, THANKS TO A GRANT FROM THE STATE, THE GROUP WAS ABLE TO RESTORE THE FACADES OF A NUMBER OF BUILDINGS.

Ziegler: THE GRANT WAS TO COVER SIX.

WE MANAGED THE MONEY VERY WELL, AND WE DID 11.

AND ALL THOSE FACADES ARE GLEAMING TODAY.

Sebak: THERE'S ONE FACADE JUST OFF MARKET SQUARE THAT ARTHUR CALLS THE THOMPSON BUILDING.

Ziegler: THAT'S ACTUALLY THE SECOND FACADE ON THAT BUILDING.

WHEN THOMPSON BOUGHT IT, IT LOOKED MUCH DIFFERENT.

AND THEY PUT ON THIS FACADE, WHICH THEY CONSIDERED MODERN AT THE TIME.

AND THEN WE RESTORED IT.

RALPH FALBO AND ERNIE VALLOZZI, JULIAN VALLOZZI CAME TO US AND SAID, "A GROCERY STORE IS WHAT WE NEED DOWNTOWN."

AND WE SAID, "A GROCERY STORE IS WHAT WE NEED DOWNTOWN," AND NOW WE HAVE IT.

THEN WE HAVE OUR DRY VEGETABLES OVER HERE.

Sebak: OWNER RALPH FALBO CALLS IT THE MARKET ST.

GROCERY.

Falbo: THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DEVOID DOWNTOWN, AND THIS PROVIDED THE NICHE THAT WAS NEEDED FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN WALK TWO OR THREE BLOCKS WITH A COUPLE BAGS OF GROCERIES TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK.

Ziegler: AND IT'S BEEN VERY POPULAR SINCE IT OPENED AND HAS EXCELLENT FOOD AND BAKED GOODS AND GOOD ESPRESSO, AS WELL.

AND IN THE BACK, A WINE BAR AND GOOD CHEESE IN THE EVENING.

THERE'S SUPER-CREAMY BRIE FROM FLORENCE.

Sebak: NOT FAR AWAY ON WOOD STREET, ARTHUR WANTED US TO E MORE OF HISTORY & LANDMARKS' WORK, INCLUDING ON THE ROBERTS BUILDING.

Ziegler: THAT BUILDING IS NOW OWNED BY THE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AND IT IS GOING TO BE PUT TO NEW USE -- MAYBE RESIDENTIAL.

NO ONE'S SURE YET.

WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT IT.

BUT THIS CORNER IS SO INTERESTING BECAUSE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER IS WHAT'S CALLED THE SKINNY BUILDING.

IT'S ONLY FIVE FEET WIDE, BUT IT'S A BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED BUILDING.

Sebak: IT WAS APPARENTLY BUILT AROUND 1918, POSSIBLY JUST TO USE THE LAND ON THAT CORNER.

LONG KNOWN AS THE SKINNY BUILDING, IT MAY BE THE NARROWEST SUCH STRUCTURE IN ANY AMERICAN CITY.

Ziegler: YOU CAN'T USE IT FOR PEOPLE.

IT'S TOO NARROW.

YOU CAN'T GET FIRE STAIRS IN.

AND THERE'S A LITTLE CIRCULAR STAIR THAT YOU CAN MANAGE TO GET UP, AND IT IS NOT USABLE UNDER LIFE-SAFETY CODES ON THE UPPER FLOORS.

THE FIRST FLOOR HERE, THOUGH, IS OPEN TO SELLING ALL YEAR-ROUND.

THEY SELL HATS AND SCARVES AND JEWELRY.

VERY MANHATTAN-ESQUE.

AND WE WANTED TO KEEP THAT.

WE DID NOT WANT IT TO BE ENCLOSED.

Sebak: SOME OLD PHOTOS SHOW OTHER USES, TOO.

Ziegler: THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THERE WAS A LITTLE DINER THERE, YES.

Sebak: CATTY-CORNER FROM THE SKINNY BUILDING, YOU'LL SEE ANOTHER SET OF THREE OLD BUILDINGS WITH A COMMON FACADE THAT HISTORY & LANDMARKS RESTORED.

Ziegler: WE TOOK SOME OF THAT MONEY THAT WE HAD FROM THE STATE, AND WE RESTORED ALL THREE.

THEY REALLY WERE IN TERRIBLY SHABBY CONDITION.

ALL CAST-IRON FRONTS, AND WE RESTORED EVERYTHING THAT WE COULD, AND WE SIMULATED THE CAST IRON THAT WE COULDN'T RESTORE OR THAT WAS ALREADY GONE OUT OF A FIBERGLASS MATERIAL.

BUT IT ALL LOOKS LIKE THE REAL THING TODAY.

AND IT IS A REMARKABLE TRIPLEX.

Sebak: ONE END OF THAT TRIPLEX IS NOW HOME TO KATIE'S KANDY, OWNED BY A FORMER CPA NAMED JON WESTON... HEY, KAYLA.

HEY, MARA.

HOW WE DOING TODAY?

...WHO KNOWS THAT WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF SWEETS DOWNTOWN, THEY OFTEN THINK OF THE OLD CANDY-RAMA STORES.

THERE WERE SEVERAL LOCATIONS AND LOTS OF CANDY UNTIL 2007.

Weston: IF YOU'RE FROM PITTSBURGH, EVERYBODY KNOWS CANDY-RAMA.

I USED TO GET ON THE BUS AT THE AVALON LOOP, AND I WOULD GO TO THE ONE AT FIFTH AVENUE.

THAT'S THE ONE I USED TO GO TO.

Sebak: THERE WERE FIVE OR SIX YEARS OF A DOWNTOWN CANDY DROUGHT THAT ENDED WITH WESTON OPENING THREE LOCATIONS DOWNTOWN SINCE 2013.

THEY'RE ALL NAMED FOR HIS YOUNGER DAUGHTER.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE I PUT MY LOCATIONS, I AM BASICALLY WHERE CANDY-RAMA WAS.

CANDY-RAMA WAS IN JENKINS ARCADE -- THAT'S FIFTH AVENUE PLACE -- I'M THERE.

I'M HERE AT WOOD AND FORBES, WHICH IS NOT FAR FROM THE FIFTH AVENUE STORE.

THEN AT THE CLARK BUILDING, WE ARE TWO DOORS DOWN FROM WHERE THEY WERE AT THE CLARK BUILDING.

Sebak: THE WOOD STREET STORE IS THE ONE WITH THE GREAT OLD CAST-IRON STYLE FACADE.

Weston: I MEAN, I LIKE THE FACT THAT THEY MADE IT LOOK OLD SCHOOL BECAUSE I'M SORT OF KNOWN FOR NOSTALGIC STUFF.

HERE'S SORT OF THE ONLY NON-NOSTALGIC BARS, ARE RIGHT HERE THAT WE HAVE.

THEN EVERYTHING FROM HERE DOWN IS NOSTALGIC.

THERE ARE ALL THE ROCKY ROADS.

YOU HAVE THE FRENCH CHEW, THE TURKISH TAFFY.

FRENCH CHEW PRECEDED THE TURKISH TAFFY.

MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT.

YOU HAVE BLACK COWS, NECCO WAFERS, MARY JANES, VALOMILK, OF COURSE THE MALLO CUP.

THEY'RE FROM ALTOONA.

CLARK BARS, ZAGNUT.

NIK-L-NIP -- A LOT PEOPLE REALLY DO LIKE THESE, WHICH ARE THE WAX BOTTLES.

BUT I MEAN, NAME THE CANDY -- IF THEY MAKE IT, I SELL IT.

BULK IS THE STUFF WHERE YOU GET A BAG AND YOU PUT AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS YOU WANT IN THE BAG.

IT IS THESE TWO AISLES.

MOST OF THIS IS GUMMY AND DEXTROSE CANDY.

AND THEN HERE IS SORT OF EVERYTHING FROM FRUITY TO SOMETHING ELSE.

Sebak: THERE ARE SOME FANCIER PRODUCTS, TOO, LIKE THESE BEAUTIES FROM MOONSHINE CANDY.

Weston: THEY ARE TRUFFLES.

I WAS ACTUALLY AT A CANDY SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO, AND THERE WAS A LONG LINE FOR THESE CHOCOLATES.

AND I'M SAYING, "OH, I WANT TO PUT THEM IN THE STORE."

HE'S LIKE, "OH, WHERE ARE YOU?"

I SAID, "PITTSBURGH."

AND HE SAYS, "WELL, WE'RE FROM NEW CASTLE."

I'M LIKE, "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME DOWN TO MY STORES?"

SO THAT'S THE STORY OF THESE.

THEY ARE -- IT'S A FUDGE GANACHE IN THE MIDDLE WITH A 34% BELGIAN CHOCOLATE COVERING, AND THEN THEY HAND-PAINT THEM.

THEY'RE DELICIOUS.

I'LL DO THE CHAMPAGNE.

YOU'LL DO THE CHAMPAGNE?

WHY NOT?

EVERY PIECE OF CANDY IN THIS STORE I HAVE TRIED.

MAYBE IT WASN'T YESTERDAY, BUT AFTER 5 1/2 YEARS, YOU DO GET TO TRY EVERY CANDY.

HERE'S SOME MORE CANDY THAT YOU PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SEEN IN THE CANDY-RAMAS.

IT'S ALL WRAPPED.

YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE HARD CANDY.

YOU HAVE THE KITS, THE TURKISH TAFFY.

NOW, HERE'S THE THING WITH THIS TURKISH TAFFY -- THEY DISCONTINUED IT THIS PAST MONTH.

SO IN A COUPLE MONTHS, THE LITTLE PIECES YOU WILL NOT GET.

YOU CAN GET THE BARS, BUT THE PIECES ARE NOW GONE.

IN DOWNTOWN, I SELL ABOUT 3,000 TO 4,000 POUNDS OF GUMMY BEARS A MONTH.

AND WHAT'S NICE ABOUT THE CANDY BUSINESS VERSUS PROBABLY EVERYTHING ELSE -- NOBODY COMES IN A BAD MOOD.

AND THAT'S SORT OF THE BEAUTY OF WORKING HERE -- THAT YOU COME IN AND SORT OF EVERYONE, THE BAD STUFF STAYS OUTSIDE.

AND EVERYONE COMES IN IN A GOOD MOOD.

AND IF THEY DON'T, I GIVE THEM CANDY.

AND THEN THEY SMILE AGAIN.

SO, THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF WORKING HERE.

BYE.

BYE.

Sebak: WELL, SOMETIMES THE BEAUTY OF WORKING SOMEWHERE MAY COME FROM JUST THE BEAUTY OF A BUILDING ITSELF.

CONSIDER THE UNION TRUST BUILDING.

OPENED IN 1917, IT WAS DEVELOPED BY HENRY CLAY FRICK WITH PITTSBURGH ARCHITECT FREDERICK J. OSTERLING.

THE ORNATE STYLE IS OFTEN CALLED FLEMISH GOTHIC, AND IT'S ELABORATE AND BEAUTIFUL, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE.

IN 2014, IT WAS ACQUIRED BY THE DAVIS COMPANIES FROM BOSTON, AND THEY HAVE PLANS.

Lasky: THE ENTIRE INVESTMENT THAT WE'RE MAKING IN THE PROPERTY IS $100 MILLION.

THE MAJORITY OF THAT IS GOING TO INFRASTRUCTURE -- STUFF BEHIND THE WALLS.

THE WAY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IT IS IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR 100 YEARS.

WE NOW ARE GOING TO TAKE THIS BUILDING, PULL IT APART WHERE WE HAVE TO, PUT IT BACK TOGETHER, AND SET IT UP FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS.

Sebak: CHRISTOPHER LASKY IS VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DAVIS COMPANIES, AND HE'S KNOWN THIS BUILDING SINCE HE WAS AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT.

OH, IT'S MY FAVORITE BUILDING IN PITTSBURGH.

I THINK IT'S ARGUABLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.

WITH THE DETAIL, IT'S SO STRIKING.

Sebak: THERE'S THE AMAZING 11-STORY WELL THAT GOES UP TO A STAINED-GLASS DOME.

IT'S AN ENTIRE CITY BLOCK, SO WE HAVE THESE ARCADES THAT CUT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK THAT SORT OF SERVE AS INTERIOR STREETS.

Sebak: THERE ARE WORKERS INSIDE AND OUT, GETTING THINGS READY FOR NEW BUSINESSES HERE.

OUT ON THE SCAFFOLDING, BOSTON ARCHITECT STEPHEN WESSLING HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE MANSARD ROOF WITH ALL ITS 100-YEAR-OLD TERRA-COTTA TILES AND ORNAMENTS.

Wessling: WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WATERPROOFING, THE CUTTING, POINTING, THE SEALING OF JOINTS TO KEEP AS MUCH WATER OUT AS POSSIBLE.

THIS IS ONE OF THE VINES OR TREES THAT WE SAW HUNDREDS OF THEM ON THE BUILDING.

AND IT'S GROWING ON, AND IT JUST CAUSES SO MUCH DAMAGE TO THE TERRA-COTTA AND THE MORTAR JOINTS.

I WORK ON A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL, HISTORIC PROJECTS OVER MY CAREER AND SOME MAJOR ONES IN BOSTON.

THIS IS SPECTACULAR.

IT'S UNUSUAL FOR SOMEONE TO ABSOLUTELY BE ABLE TO DO THIS, BUT THE DAVIS COMPANIES HAVE DECIDED THEY'RE GONNA DO IT RIGHT, AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

Sebak: REPLACEMENT OF INTRICATE TERRA-COTTA PIECES HAS BEEN MADE MUCH EASIER BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL MOLDS WERE STORED AWAY DOWNSTAIRS IN THE BASEMENT.

SOMEONE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO KEEP ALL THIS.

THEY'RE CREATING A NEW VALET PARKING AREA DOWN HERE, TOO, AND THERE ARE SURPRISES.

Lasky: HENRY CLAY FRICK PUT A TUNNEL IN IN THIS BUILDING THAT CONNECTS TO THE FRICK BUILDING SO THAT HE CAN GET IN AND OUT.

NOT A VERY POPULAR MAN ON THE STREET, SO I THINK HE LIKED TO STAY CONCEALED.

Sebak: THE LEAD ENGINEER FOR THIS BUILDING, DAN MARSHALL, LED US BACK UPSTAIRS.

Marshall: NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE GET SEE THIS THING.

WE'RE GOING INSIDE THE TOP OF THE GLASS DOME.

AND WE GO IN, AND WE CHECK THE LIGHTING JUST TO MAKE SURE THE DOME'S LIT UP RIGHT.

A ONCE-A-MONTH INSPECTION.

THE GLASS IS ACTUALLY HINGED, AND YOU CAN LIFT IT UP AND LOOK DOWN INTO THE LOBBY.

IT'S PRETTY COOL.

Sebak: OH, THE ROOFTOP CHAPELS HERE ARE FAMOUS.

THEY'RE TRULY BEAUTIFUL MECHANICAL ROOMS.

BUT THERE'S LOTS THAT'S NOT IMMEDIATELY VISIBLE.

Lasky: DOWN IN THE BASEMENT IS ONE OF THE OLD GRAND VAULTS OF THE BANKING DAYS OF THE 1920s.

SO AT ONE POINT, IT HOUSED ABOUT 13,000 SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES -- ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE CITY, IF NOT THE COUNTRY.

WE HAVE ALL THE ORIGINAL KEYS TO THEM, AS WELL.

SO, HAVEN'T QUITE FOUND OUT WHAT THAT USE IS GONNA BE YET, BUT IT GIVES US OPTIONS WITH IT.

IT'S A UNIQUE SPACE.

IN ALL THE TIME THAT I SPEND IN PITTSBURGH AND SPEND IN OLD BUILDINGS, I CAN'T SAY THAT I'VE EVER RUN INTO A BUILDING THAT HAS THIS SORT OF QUALITY AND THIS AUTHENTICITY OF 100 YEARS AGO.

Sebak: BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK ACROSS GRANT STREET FOR ANOTHER IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE MORE THAN 100-YEAR-OLD BUILDING, THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, DESIGNED BY HENRY HOBSON RICHARDSON, COMPLETED IN 1888.

Johnson: IF I WAS GIVING SOMEONE DIRECTIONS, I WOULD SAY IT IS THE LARGE BUILDING DOWNTOWN THAT LOOKS LIKE A CASTLE, AND IT'S A STONE STRUCTURE AND THAT IT OCCUPIES A LARGE BLOCK ON GRANT STREET.

Sebak: JERRY JOHNSON, ORIGINALLY FROM PHILADELPHIA, WENT TO LAW SCHOOL AT PITT AND HAS WORKED HERE IN THE COURTHOUSE SINCE 2003.

HE IS AN ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR ALLEGHENY COUNTY.

Johnson: MOST OF THE MAJOR THINGS THAT HAPPEN FOR THE GOVERNMENT HAPPEN ON GRANT STREET.

HERE WHERE WE ARE, OF COURSE, IS THE CRIMINAL MATTERS, AND IS ALSO THE DOG LICENSURE, THE FIREARMS LICENSURE.

AND SO IF YOU'RE ON GRANT STREET, IT IS REALLY A LOT OF THINGS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE'S LIVES AND HOW THEY GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY LIVES HAPPEN FROM GRANT STREET.

Sebak: LIKE MANY FOLKS WHO WORK DOWNTOWN, JERRY OFTEN GOES FOR A WALK AT LUNCHTIME.

Johnson: I DO WALK A LOT.

I DO ENJOY IT.

IT'S VERY -- I LIKE BEING ACTIVE, AND SOMETIMES MY JOB REQUIRES LOTS OF THINKING ON YOUR FEET, AND THIS IS A WAY FOR ME TO KIND OF GO OVER MY MORNING AND KIND OF THINK ABOUT MY AFTERNOON, SO I DO.

HERE WE HAVE THE CITY-COUNTY BUILDING.

AND THEY HAVE A STATUE OF FORMER MAYOR CALIGUIRI.

WHEN I FIRST CAME TO PITTSBURGH, THIS STATUE REMINDED ME OF JOHN F. KENNEDY.

BUT I LOOKED AT IT AND I READ THE INSCRIPTION, AND IT WAS BEFORE MY TIME HERE, BUT I KNOW THAT HE WAS A REALLY BELOVED MAYOR.

AND HE DID A LOT FOR THE CITY.

BUT THAT'S BEFORE I CAME TO THE CITY, BUT REALLY WELL-LOVED.

IF I HAVE AN IDEA WHERE I'M GOING FOR LUNCH, I CAN GO FOR A NICE SCENIC ROUTE, IF I DON'T HAVE TO BE BACK IMMEDIATELY.

AND IF I HAVE TO BE BACK IMMEDIATELY, I STAY CLOSER TO THE COURTHOUSE.

OH, YOU KNOW, I REALLY LIKE THIS LITTLE PLACE ON THE CORNER.

IT'S A KENYAN PLACE.

IT'S SO CHILLY RIGHT NOW -- I WOULD LOVE SOME COFFEE.

I THINK I'LL STOP IN.

THERE'S A NICE LADY BY THE NAME OF LYDIA, AND IT'S A REALLY COOL PLACE.

Sebak: WHEN YOU WALK WITH JERRY, IT'S APPARENT THAT HE HAS FRIENDS ALL OVER TOWN.

HEY, LYDIA.

HOW ARE YOU, JERRY?

I THINK THAT EVERYBODY HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT THEM.

IT'S WHETHER THEY WANT TO SHARE IT OR NOT.

THAT CHEMISTRY BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, AND YOU RUN IN CONTACT WITH THAT AS YOU WALK AROUND DOWNTOWN WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

AND IT'S JUST A MATTER OF BEING OPEN.

AND I ENJOY INTERACTING WITH NICE PEOPLE WHO ARE OPEN.

I TEND TO RECHARGE BY JUST THINKING MY THOUGHTS, AND WITHIN A LUNCH PERIOD, WHAT I'LL DO IS SOMETIMES I'LL GO DOWN TO THE POINT, AND OTHER TIMES, I MAY ENJOY A NICE QUIET MOMENT NEAR ONE OF THE CHURCHES DOWNTOWN.

THEY HAVE A LITTLE COURTYARD AREA WHERE YOU CAN KIND OF -- IF YOU WANT TO BRING A BOOK, AND YOU CAN MAYBE -- FOR ME, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I MAY SAY A PRAYER.

AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME, AND THAT'S SOMETHING I CAN RECHARGE MY SPIRIT FOR THE AFTERNOON.

Sebak: JERRY SAID HE HAS MANY FAVORITE LUNCH SPOTS, INCLUDING HERE.

Johnson: THE NAME IS SAL'S CITY DELI.

AND IT'S AT THE CORNER OF SEVENTH AND LIBERTY, AND IT'S NEXT TO THE BENEDUM HALL.

I LOVE THE PLACE, REALLY.

A LONG TIME AGO, I VISITED THE LE CORDON BLEU, WHICH IS THE PENNSYLVANIA CULINARY ARTS.

AND THERE'S A SCHOOL THAT'S RIGHT IN THIS BUILDING, THE CLARK BUILDING.

IT WAS ON THE 18th FLOOR.

AND THERE WAS A REALLY KIND GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF CHEF HERBINKO.

AND HE'S ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO GREETED ME WITH A SMILE, A WARM HANDSHAKE, AND WE TALKED ABOUT COOKING.

AND HE WAS ONE OF THE INSTRUCTORS AT THE CULINARY ARTS SCHOOL.

WHEN THE SCHOOL CLOSED, HE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS RESTAURANT.

AND I CAME BY JUST TO SAY HELLO TO HIM AND SEE HOW IT WAS GOING.

IT WAS GOING GREAT.

AND I ORDERED SOME FOOD AND I SAID, "MAN, NOT ONLY IS IT A GREAT PERSON,ME NOT ONLY IS IT GREAT FOOD, IT'S A NICE LITTLE TREAT FOR MYSELF ON A FRIDAY OR SOMETHING TO COME HERE AND JUST TREAT MYSELF TO A NICE LUNCH AND MAYBE BRING A BOOK WITH ME."

Sebak: LUNCH DOWNTOWN OBVIOUSLY CAN INCLUDE A LOT.

ALL RIGHT, SEE YOU GUYS Johnson: EVERY DAY IS AN ADVENTURE, AND EVERY DAY I HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET NICE PEOPLE.

YOU KNOW, I WISH I HAD MORE TIME, BUT I HAVE TO GET BACK TO WORK.

SOME OF US MAY KEEP WALKING AROUND ON FOURTH AVENUE, NEAR THE CORNER WITH SMITHFIELD STREET, SOME FOLKS WILL NOTICE BANNER COIN EXCHANGE, ESTABLISHED IN 1963, MAYBE THE SMALLEST STOREFRONT BUSINESS LEFT IN TOWN.

EDDIE LOWY OWNS AND OPERATES THIS PLACE.

Lowy: IN 1979, WHEN I BOUGHT THIS STORE FROM THE SANTORRA FAMILY, THERE WERE 13 SMALL FIRST FLOOR -- I'M TALKING ABOUT STORES ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH.

THERE WERE 13 STORES OF THIS SIZE.

THIS STORE IS 159 SQUARE FEET.

IT'S IS THE SIZE OF A BATHROOM.

BUT THAT'S OKAY.

I MEAN, IT ADDS TO THE LOVE OF THIS PLACE.

Kimberly: OH, THAT LITTLE SHOP DON'T MATTER TO ME 'CAUSE I'M LITTLE TO BEGIN WITH.

I'VE BEEN COMING DOWN TO HIS SHOP FOR QUITE A WHILE.

NOW I'M INTERESTED IN THE SILVER COINS.

Lowy: I'M THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.

I MEAN, THIS IS THE LAST OF THESE TINY SPACES AVAILABLE.

THE REST OF THEM HAVE ALL BEEN INCORPORATED INTO LARGER SPACES, OR THOSE BUILDINGS WERE REMODELED AND THE SMALL SPACES WERE TAKEN OUT.

Kimberly: HE KNOWS I HAVE MY QUOTA.

HE KNOWS WHAT I GO FOR.

IT'S AN OLD UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RING.

SO HE KNOWS HOW TO SHOW ME WHAT'S GOING ON.

Lowy: SO, THIS SHOP OPENED UP MAY 1, 1963, AND CONTINUOUSLY TO THIS DAY HAS SERVED AS A COIN COLLECTING SHOP FOR THE PITTSBURGH AREA.

FROM THE EARLY '80s, ALL THE COIN DEALERS STARTED BUYING SCRAP METALS, TOO, SO THAT BECAME THE SCRAP JEWELRY BUSINESS, SILVER FLATWARE BUSINESS, THE OLD WATCHES BUSINESS -- ANYTHING THAT COULD BE RECYCLED.

Johnnie: HE DOES STAMPS, TOO.

BUT I JUST -- COINS.

Ken: I WORK DOWNTOWN AT ONE GATEWAY CENTER AT CS McKEE.

HI.

HOW ARE YOU?

GOOD MORNING, SIR.

MAY I HELP YOU?

GOOD MORNING.

IM HERE FROM PNC THEY SENT ME OVER HERE TO CONVERT SOME EUROS.

I WENT TO PNC TO EXCHANGE SOME EUROS FROM A RECENT VACATION, AND I HAD SOME COINS.

AND THEY SAID THEY NO LONGER TAKE THE COINS AT THE BANK, AND THEY GAVE ME THE BUSINESS CARD OF BANNER COIN EXCHANGE.

SO I CAME OVER HERE TO EXCHANGE IT AND GET SOME CASH.

OKAY, YOUR TOTAL IN U.S.

DOLLARS WILL BE $2.79.

OKAY, GREAT.

Lowy: THIS IS THE STANDARD LIFE BUILDING.

IT WAS THE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

I BELIEVE THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT IN 1896.

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 1892.

BUT IT WAS A HUGE INSURANCE COMPANY, AND THEY TOOK UP THE ENTIRE BUILDING.

THIS LITTLE SPACE WAS ACTUALLY ENCLOSED ON THE FRONT BECAUSE IT WAS THE STORAGE VAULT FOR ALL THEIR IMPORTANT FILES.

Ken: NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE.

IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT THIS IS AVAILABLE.

Lowy: I DON'T KNOW WHEN STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE FINALLY LEFT THIS BUILDING, AND THEN IT BECAME AN OFFICE BUILDING.

WHEN I CAME IN HERE IN 1980, IT WAS SOME ACCOUNTANTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS.

THERE WERE SOME LAWYERS UPSTAIRS.

FRANK & BUN, FOR THOSE PITTSBURGHERS THAT REMEMBER IT, IT WAS AN OLD HOT DOG SHOP.

IT WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME.

THEY USED TO SELL YOU FIVE HOT DOGS FOR A DOLLAR IF YOU COULD EAT THAT MANY.

[ BUZZER ] Sebak: NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE COME TO BUY OR SELL, THE DECOR IS MEMORABLE.

SIGNED PHOTOS AND ASSORTED STUFF EVERYWHERE.

Lowy: I GET NOTHING BUT COMPLIMENTS ABOUT HOW NOSTALGIC AND HOW FUN IT IS TO COME INTO A PLACE LIKE THIS.

CELEBRITIES HAVE BEEN THROUGH HERE OVER THE YEARS.

I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME JAMES EARL JONES WALKED IN THE DOOR.

AT THAT TIME, HE WAS SHOOTING COMMERCIALS FOR BELL ATLANTIC, AND HE COLLECTED COINS.

AND THEN SOME OF THE AUTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE THINGS THAT I ACQUIRED FROM CUSTOMERS OF MINE.

I JUST -- I LOVE AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE.

OH, I BOUGHT A COUPLE BRACELETS, A COUPLE RINGS.

LIKE I USUALLY GET.

'CAUSE I LIKE THAT SHADE.

THAT'S THE PURPLE GARNET.

MM-HMM.

WHO KNOWS?

YOU TAKE A LITTLE EXTRA MONEY, BUY SOME GOLD OR SILVER COINS.

YOU MIGHT HAVE TO HOLD THEM MAYBE 10, ANOTHER 15 YEARS, BUT THE ECONOMY WILL TELL YOU WHEN IT'S TIME TO CASH THEM IN, JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW?

Lowy: I'M AN OLD-SCHOOL PERSON.

I STILL DO BUSINESS ON A HANDSHAKE, WHICH IS VERY UNUSUAL.

I STILL KEEP HANDWRITTEN LEDGERS.

I'M A VERY SIMPLE PERSON, AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS GO IN AND OUT OF THIS WORLD KNOWING THAT I BROUGHT SOME HAPPINESS INTO PEOPLE'S LIVES.

THANK YOU.

END OF STORY.

Sebak: OH, THE STORY NEVER ENDS.

AND REMEMBER, BANNER COIN EXCHANGE IS ON FOURTH AVENUE, WHERE MANY BANKS BUILT BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY.

NOW IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY, THE BIGGEST BANK IN TOWN, PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES, HAS ESTABLISHED AN EXTRAORDINARY PRESENCE ACROSS OUR CITY CENTER.

WE ASKED GARY SAULSON, WHO WAS THEN PNC's DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE REAL ESTATE, TO LIST THE BUILDINGS WHERE PNC CAN BE FOUND.

WELL, WE'RE IN THE USX TOWER.

WE'RE IN 500 SMITHFIELD, WHICH IS THE OLD MELLON HEADQUARTERS, WHERE WE PUT OUR CALL CENTER.

FIRSTSIDE CENTER, WHICH WE BUILT IN 2000.

ONE PNC, WHICH FEATURES THE GREEN WALL.

TWO PNC, WHICH IS OVER THERE.

Sebak: OVER THERE ON LIBERTY AVENUE.

Saulson: THREE PNC, WHICH HAS THE FAIRMONT HOTEL AND OFFICE SPACE.

AND OUR NEWEST ADDITION, THE TOWER AT PNC PLAZA, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE.

-IT IS A NICE BUILDING, RIGHT?

-IT IS.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE CHANDELIER LIT UP?

NO.

THAT'S AMAZING.

BEAUTIFUL L.E.D.

COLORS -- YOU KNOW, KEEPS ON CHANGING.

Sebak: AT STREET LEVEL, THAT CHANDELIER OR BEACON ATTRACTS ATTENTION AND CHANGES CONSTANTLY WITH A VARIETY OF INFORMATION.

Man: I BELIEVE FROM ALL THE TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE WITHIN IT, WITH WINDOWS OPEN, YOU'LL SEE THE COLOR TURN BLUE.

WITH THE HEATING ON THE TOP, IT CREATES A DRAFT TO PULL THE AIR UP THROUGH THERE BUILDING.

Sebak: WE SOON REALIZED THOSE INTERESTED FOLKS WERE ALL PNC EMPLOYEES.

WE WORK IN THIS ONE.

WE'RE GOING TO PNC THREE FOR TRAINING.

BUT WE'RE, AT THE MOMENT, JUST LOOKING AT THIS ONE.

THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW BUILDINGS IN PITTSBURGH THAT ISN'T SQUARE TO THE STREET.

THIS BUILDING SITS AT AN ANGLE.

AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT WE DID A SOLAR STUDY, AND WE WANTED TO PLANT THE BUILDING ON THE SITE SO WE COULD GATHER AS MUCH DAYLIGHT AS POSSIBLE.

Sebak: ON OCTOBER 1, 2015, INVITED GUESTS GATHERED IN THE TOWER FOR A FIRST LOOK AT THE PLACE.

IN THE LOBBY, CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEO OF PNC, MR.

BILL DEMCHAK, KICKED OFF THE FESTIVITIES.

I'M GONNA START BY JUST THANKING THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY FOR THEIR SUPPORT FOR THIS GREAT PROJECT.

AND THANK YOU TO OUR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE PUT UP WITH THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS AND THE TRAFFIC AND THE POTHOLES AND THE SIGNS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

FINALLY, TO THE ARCHITECTS GENSLER FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE DESIGN.

AND THE FOLKS AT P.J.

DICK, WHO DID JUST AN AMAZING JOB ON THIS CONSTRUCTION EFFORT.

AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, ALL THE FOLKS AND ALL THE 2,500 MEN AND WOMEN FROM OUR LOCAL TRADE ORGANIZATIONS WHO WORKED ON THIS PROJECT THROUGHOUT ITS CONSTRUCTION.

IF WE COULD JUST GIVE THEM A HAND.

[ APPLAUSE ] IF EVERYONE JUST WANTS TO FOLLOW ME, WE'LL GOT TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE MECHANICAL ROOMS.

Sebak: THAT MORNING, GUESTS WERE INVITED TO TOUR SOME OF THE UNUSUAL FEATURES THAT MAKE THIS THE TALLEST AND BIGGEST GREEN SKYSCRAPER IN THE WORLD.

PNC HAS MADE A HUGE COMMITMENT TO THE US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL'S L.E.E.D.

-- FOR LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN -- IN ALL ITS BUILDINGS.

Demchak: TODAY, THE TOWER AT PNC PLAZA TAKES ITS PLACE AS THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR GREEN BUILDING DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, OPENING AS ONE OF THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SKY-RISES IN THE WORLD.

IT'S DESIGNED TO USE 50% LESS ENERGY THAN A TYPICAL OFFICE BUILDING IN AMERICA.

WE'RE GONNA USE 77% LESS WATER THAN A TYPICAL OFFICE BUILDING IN AMERICA.

WE'RE GONNA GIVE OUR EMPLOYEES NATURAL LIGHT AND FRESH AIR.

Sebak: THAT FRESH AIR WILL ENTER THROUGH UNUSUAL WINDOWS, OR POPPERS, THAT MOVE OUT FROM THE OUTER SKIN OF THE BUILDING.

Saulson: IF YOU LOOK UP ABOVE, YOU CAN SEE THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN.

THERE'S DIFFERENT VARIATIONS, BUT IT'S THE FIRST BUILDING WHERE THE WINDOWS OPEN, AND THEN YOU HAVE A TRUE DOUBLE SKIN THAT'S INHABITABLE.

Sebak: THAT MEANS YOU CAN ENTER AND WALK IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TWO OUTER SKINS OF THE STRUCTURE.

PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING CAN OPEN DOORS TO LET IN MORE AIR WHEN NEEDED.

THE BUILDING IS REALLY A BREATHABLE LIVING THING THAT HAPPENS TO BE A BUILDING.

Sebak: BUT THIS BUILDING INCORPORATES MANY INNOVATIONS, AND WE TALKED ALSO WITH GENSLER'S PRINCIPAL DESIGN DIRECTOR FOR THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE, THE SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT NAMED HAO KO.

Ko: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT, I THINK -- TRADITIONAL OFFICE SPACES ALWAYS JUST FELT VERY STERILE.

YOU KNOW, IT WAS MAYBE MORE LIKE A MACHINE FOR WORK, SO EVERYBODY CAME IN, AND, YOU KNOW, "YOU'RE HERE TO WORK!"

WHY DO WE HAVE TO MAKE IT SO UNCOMFORTABLE?

LET'S MAKE IT A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE.

Demchak: IT'S WIDE OPEN.

IT'S COLORFUL.

IT'S VERY BRIGHT.

YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL WINDOWS AND OPEN SPACE AND COLLABORATIVE TABLES.

Sebak: IT'S ALSO UNEXPECTED IDEAS THAT PNC's PATRICK FINNEGAN EXPLAINED ON THAT TOUR.

WE REFER TO THIS AS A NEIGHBORHOOD, A TWO-STORY NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO IF YOU THINK OF A STANDARD BUILDING THAT HAS SEVERAL PLATES, YOU KNOW, THIS BUILDING BEING 32 OCCUPIED FLOORS.

INSTEAD OF THINKING OF INDIVIDUAL FLOORS, THINK OF TWO FLOORS MAKING ONE.

ESSENTIALLY WHAT THAT DOES IS IT CREATES A LIVING ROOM HERE, WHICH WE'RE STANDING ON, WHICH ARE ALL THE EVEN FLOORS.

WE HAVE A COMMUNICATING STAIR THAT LEADS UP TO THE ODD FLOORS -- IN THIS SITUATION, THE 11th FLOOR, WHICH HAS THE PANTRY.

SO, HERE WE'RE ABLE TO CONNECT PEOPLE ON TWO FLOORS.

YOU'LL SEE YOU HAVE THIS WONDERFUL KIND OF SHARED SPACE FOR EVERYBODY HERE THAT YOU CAN COME OVER HERE AND COLLABORATE.

PANTRIES ON ONE FLOOR, COFFEE ROOMS ON ANOTHER.

EVEN THE TOILET ROOMS ARE ALL HERE, SO ALL THE SHARED FUNCTIONS ARE HERE.

SO, ONE OF THE SECRETS OF THE BUILDING IS THAT THERE'S MUSIC IN EVERY BATHROOM.

WE WANTED TO CREATE ONE-STOP SHOPPING.

SO, ESSENTIALLY, WASH YOUR HANDS... AND DRY YOUR HANDS... WITHOUT EVER LEAVING THE SINK.

AND THAT BLUE LIGHT ACTUALLY SAYS "DRY."

Sebak: BUT MAYBE THE MOST UNUSUAL FEATURES ARE THE SHARED SPACES ON THE 28th FLOOR, INCLUDING AN OPEN PARK, A SIX-STORY ATRIUM WITH A MASSIVE GLASS WALL.

PRETTY AWESOME VIEW AS SOON AS YOU GET OUT OF THE ELEVATORS, HUH?

Saulson: WELL, IT'S VERY UNEXPECTED.

IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S TYPICAL IN AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT.

THIS IS AWESOME.

Finnegan: THIS IS REALLY SET UP TO BE A SPACE FOR EMPLOYEES TO COME UP WITH WI-FI, HAVE LUNCH UP HERE, WORK UP HERE.

Sebak: BUT NOT FAR AWAY ON THAT SAME FLOOR, THERE'S A BIGGER SURPRISE.

WE REFER TO THIS AS THE OBSERVATION WALK.

IT'S A REALLY UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CITY.

Sebak: IT'S AN OUTDOOR PATIO THAT PRESENTS SOME AMAZING VIEWS.

Finnegan: YOU COULD HAVE A MEETING UP HERE, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE.

IT'S A GREAT AREA OUTSIDE OF OUR CONFERENCING THAT IF YOU'RE BREAKING AWAY FOR LUNCH OR JUST NEED SOME FRESH AIR, AGAIN WE JUST THOUGHT, "WHY NOT BUILD A SPACE LIKE THIS IN A BUILDING LIKE THIS?"

KIND OF, AGAIN, BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN.

Ko: TO MAKE SOMETHING THAT HAS SUCH IMPACT OR POTENTIAL IMPACT FOR PEOPLE AND FOR THE CITY, IT'S A VERY HUMBLING EXPERIENCE.

AND TO SEE MARKET SQUARE, YOU KNOW, ON A DAY LIKE THIS WHERE YOU HAVE THE FARMER'S MARKET, IT'S JUST SO LIVELY.

THAT'S WHY I'M AN ARCHITECT.

Sebak: OKAY, BUT EVEN ON STREET LEVEL, THE FARMERS' MARKET IN MARKET SQUARE IS A LIVELY AND POPULAR PLACE.

THE MARKET'S MANAGER, MAIRIN PETRONE, WORKS FOR THE PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP THAT STARTED THIS EVENT.

Petrone: I THINK THE FIRST PART IS THAT PEOPLE REALLY LOVE DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, AND THEY LOVE THE AREA OF MARKET SQUARE.

IT'S ONE OFF THE CITY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL PUBLIC SPACES.

IT'S A PERFECT PLACE TO COME AND ENJOY YOUR LUNCH HOUR IN THE WARMER MONTHS OF PITTSBURGH.

IT'S EVERY THURSDAY FROM 10:00 TO 2:00.

IT'S A PUBLIC MARKET.

IT HAPPENS EVERY THURSDAY.

Mark: IT'S A GOOD RITUAL ON A THURSDAY JUST TO GET OUT OF THE OFFICE AND WALK AROUND.

IT'S BEEN PROBABLY THE BEST-KNOWN MARKET IN PITTSBURGH FOR A WHILE.

WE STARTED THE MARKET IN 2004 AND SURVIVED THE RENOVATION OF MARKET SQUARE THAT HAPPENED A FEW YEARS AGO.

I REMEMBER THE OLD MARKET SQUARE, YOU KNOW, THE MARBLE WALLS AND THE GUYS PLAYING CARDS.

Mary Ann: MARKET SQUARE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL NOW THAT CARS DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT.

AND ALL THE PEOPLE COME DOWN FROM ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL BIG BUILDINGS FOR LUNCH.

Mark: EVERY THURSDAY I COME TO MARKET SQUARE TO MAKE SURE WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE SELLING KIELBASA.

Petrone: WE HAVE EVERYTHING FROM PRODUCE TO BAKED GOODS TO SMALL BATCH PRODUCTS, AND AS WELL AS PREPARED FOODS, SO THEY CAN COME AND HAVE A HOT LUNCH.

THIS IS WOOLF FARMS.

THIS IS MY FAMILY FARM.

WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR THREE GENERATIONS.

WE ARE AN ALL-ORGANIC FARM PRODUCING VEGETABLES, GRAINS, AND MEATS.

Robbie: WE'RE MOSTLY A FRUIT FARM, SO WE'RE MOSTLY KNOWN FOR RASPBERRIES, BUT WE DO ALL KIND OF SPECIALTY FRUITS.

WE SELL CHEESE FROM SMALL FARMS.

THEY'RE ALL LOCAL IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

Liza: WE MAKE A LOT OF COOKIES.

WE GO SEASONAL, SO MAKE OUR NUT ROLLS AND PUMPKIN ROLLS THIS TIME OF YEAR BECAUSE IT'S FALL.

Dale: WE HAVE APPLES AND CIDER RIGHT NOW.

WE GROW EVERYTHING SEASONAL FROM FRUITS TO VEGETABLES.

I SELL A LARGE VARIETY OF GARLICS THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF AND YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IN THE STORE.

Erin: WE'RE A LOCAL ORGANIC VEGETABLE FARM THAT COMES DOWN FROM TIONESTA.

WE'RE A CO-OP, 15 FAMILY FARMS.

A LOT OF THEM ARE AMISH FAMILIES.

AND WE ALSO MAKE HOMEMADE ICE CREAM AT OUR STORE IN THE STRIP DISTRICT.

WE USE SEASONAL LOCAL PRODUCE, LOCAL MILK, SO EVERYTHING IS FARM-TO-CONE.

THIS IS A HARDNECK.

THIS IS OUR BOGATYR, AND THAT IS A HARDNECK.

AND RIGHT NEXT TO IT IS OUR FRENCH RED, WHICH IS A SOFTNECK.

MELROSE, THE STATE OF OHIO'S APPLE.

AND IT IS AN APPLE YOU CAN USE FOR ANYTHING -- CHUNKY APPLESAUCE THAT'S NO SUGAR ADDED.

Robbie: IT'S VERY UNUSUAL TO HAVE RASPBERRIES THIS LATE IN THE SEASON, BUT IT'S JUST THE WAY WE GROW THEM.

ALL MADE BY HAND BY ME.

[ LAUGHS ] AND THAT IS ACTUALLY A RUSSIAN GARLIC.

WE GREW IT IN BEAVER COUNTY AT ENON VALLEY GARLIC, BUT THE ORIGIN OF THIS WAS RUSSIAN.

Petrone: A LOT OF PEOPLE I TALK TO DO THEIR GROCERY SHOPPING FOR THE WEEK HERE AND DON'T WANT TO MISS IT.

WITH FRESH GINGER, IT'S MORE TENDER.

YOU KNOW, YOU GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE MEATY BITE TO IT.

Mark: THERE'S A LADY OVER HERE WHO SELLS PRETTY GOOD COOKIES.

SOMETIMES I'LL GET COOKIES, BUT I COME FOR THE KIELBASA SANDWICH.

WE GOT THESE BLUE HUBBARD SQUASHES OVER HERE.

APPARENTLY, FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD -- I HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO EAT ONE YET -- BUT APPARENTLY THEY MAKE A BETTER PUMPKIN PIE THAN A PUMPKIN.

THREE SNICKERDOODLES?

GETS THREE SNICKERDOODLES EVERY WEEK.

I CAME HERE FOR YEARS AND YEARS, BUT I NEVER GOT ANYTHING 'CAUSE THE LINE WAS SO LONG.

BUT THEN HE WANTED TO GET IN LINE, SO WE DID, AND EVERY WEEK WE COME.

THE LINE GOES QUICK, BUT IT'S WORTH IT.

WE TRY TO GET HIM TO SWITCH IT UP, BUT HE NEVER DOES.

FIND SOMETHING GOOD, YOU STICK WITH IT, RIGHT?

EXACTLY.

THANK YOU.THANK YOU.

I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHERE THEIR FOOD COMES FROM AND THAT THEY HAVE A CONNECTION TO IT.

Dale: IT'S DIFFERENT GETTING AN APPLE FROM THE FARM OR A COOKIE OR, I MEAN, YOU CAN GET HONEY BASIL JAMS.

IT'S FRESH.

IT'S DIFFERENT THAN GETTING SOMETHING THAT HAS PRESERVATIVES IN IT IN THE STORE.

Erin: THE MORE PEOPLE WE CAN MAKE HAPPY WITH YUMMY PRODUCE, THE BETTER.

Dale: THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, I MEAN, I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY PEOPLE SUPPORT LOCAL, FRESH PRODUCE COMING OUT.

SO THE MARKET IS EVERY THURSDAY FROM MID-MAY THROUGH THE END OF OCTOBER.

SO, EVERY THURSDAY 10:00 A.M.

TO 2:00 P.M.

Liza: I LOVE IT.

I LOVE IT.

I WOULD NEVER LEAVE THIS MARKET.

THEY'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO HAUL ME OUT OF HERE.

Erin: I LOVE THE MARKET.

Dale: I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE NICEST MARKET WE GO TO BECAUSE YOU GOT STARBUCKS, YOU GOT COFFEE SHOPS, BLUEBIRD DOWN HERE.

I GO DOWN TO EAT BREAKFAST, AND THEY BUY APPLES FROM US.

Sebak: YES, BLUEBIRD, OR BLUEBIRD KITCHEN.

IT'S A SMALL RESTAURANT ON FORBES AVENUE, JUST OFF MARKET SQUARE.

IT'S OWNED BY LIZ MOORE, A WOMAN ORIGINALLY FROM MOUNT LEBANON, WHO MOVED BACK TO PITTSBURGH FROM NEW YORK CITY TO OPEN THIS CAFE OF SORTS.

Moore: WE OPENED IN 2012 WITH THE IDEA THAT DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH COULD MAYBE USE A HIGH-QUALITY BREAKFAST AND LUNCH TAKE-OUT OPTION.

SO THE IDEA IS THAT WE SERVE FOOD THAT WE PREPARE IN HOUSE, EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH WITH HIGH-QUALITY INGREDIENTS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR MORE OF A FULL-SERVICE, FINE-DINING OPTION BUT ON THE GO.

Sebak: STEVEN THOMPSON HAS BEEN HER EXECUTIVE CHEF SINCE BEFORE THIS UNUSUAL SPOT OPENED.

Thompson: I DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE THIS PLACE.

WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND REALLY ANYONE THAT IS DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOBODY THAT'S MAKING ALL THEIR OWN MEATS AND MAKING ALL THEIR OWN BREADS AND DOING ALL THEIR OWN PASTRIES AND BAKING.

THERE'S NO CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT WE ARE, AND THERE'S NO EASY WAY TO POINT OUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE DO HERE.

WE JUST DO REALLY, REALLY GOOD FOOD.

I MEAN, WE REALLY WERE SO, SO, SO LUCKY BECAUSE WE OPENED OUR DOORS, AND WE JUST HAD PEOPLE COMING IN.

AND THEY JUST NEVER STOPPED COMING IN.

AND JUST KIND OF THAT ORIGINAL CUSTOMER BASE THAT CAME IN, JUST CONTINUED TO COME.

AND WE REALLY, IN A WAY, ALMOST EXPLODED.

THANKFULLY.

THANKFULLY.

Thompson: IT JUST KEPT GETTING BUSIER, AND THEN IT JUST STAYED BUSY.

NOW IT'S NOT AN ISSUE OF WHETHER WE'RE BUSY OR NOT.

IT'S AN ISSUE OF, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T POSSIBLY DO ANY MORE PEOPLE.

AND THAT'S NOT A BAD PROBLEM TO HAVE.

WE ARE PROBABLY FAMOUS FOR A FEW THINGS -- OUR CUBAN SANDWICH.

Thompson: VERY PROUD OF THAT SANDWICH.

OUR CUBAN'S ON OUR CIABATTA.

WE GET A GREAT HAM IN FROM ITALY.

WE GET A KUROBUTA PORK BELLY IN THAT WE BRINE FOR THREE DAYS.

AND THEN WE SOUS-VIDE IT FOR 36 HOURS WITH A LITTLE EMMENTALER CHEESE.

WE MAKE OUR OWN PICKLES FOR IT.

WE MAKE OUR OWN MUSTARDS FOR IT.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF.

AND IT'S VERY TASTY.

OUR CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH, WHICH WE MAKE.

OUR CROISSANTS.

AND THEN WE MAKE THIS REALLY INCREDIBLE CONFIT CHICKEN THAT WE USE TO MAKE OUR CHICKEN SALAD MIX.

Thompson: I MEAN, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HERE IS PART OF JUST UTILIZING.

WE DON'T WASTE ANYTHING.

SO THE BONES THAT ARE LEFT FROM THIS WE'LL MAKE STOCK OUT OF.

THIS GOES INTO A CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH THAT'S ON A CROISSANT, A FRENCH CROISSANT THAT WE MAKE.

Moore: AND THEN PROBABLY OUR BAKED GOODS.

I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT WE'RE FAMOUS FOR THIS, BUT I SEE A WHOLE LOT OF COOKIES GOING OUT THE DOOR, SO I'M JUST SAYING.

Sebak: SUCCESS HAS LED TO A SECOND BLUEBIRD DOWNTOWN IN THE BUILDING CALLED 11 STANWIX.

AND THERE'S TALK OF MORE.

Moore: MAYBE.

MAYBE MORE LOCATIONS.

AND I HOPE THAT WHEN THE HOTEL ACROSS THE STREET FROM US OPENS, THAT WE HAVE MORE OF A BREAKFAST BUSINESS.

BUT I WOULD SAY THAT WE'RE WELL-KNOWN FOR OUR BREAKFAST, THOUGH, BECAUSE WE'RE ONE OF THE FEW PLACES WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO AND GET BREAKFAST DOWNTOWN.

WITHOUT QUESTION, I THINK WE'RE A DESTINATION.

WE'RE NOT A DESTINATION.

WE'RE A STOPPING POINT TO THE DESTINATION.

PEOPLE COME HERE, THEY GET THEIR SANDWICH, AND THEN THEY GO SIT IN MARKET SQUARE.

Moore: WE HAVE VERY HIGH COSTS, SO I KNEW THAT ONE OF THE ONLY WAYS THAT THIS COULD ACTUALLY WORK, THIS CONCEPT COULD WORK, IS IF WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING THROUGH THE DOORS, AND DOWNTOWN WAS IT.

WE NEEDED SOMETHING LIKE THIS DOWN HERE.

I KNEW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STUCK IN AN OFFICE ALL DAY.

THIS WAS THE LOCATION TO BE.

Sebak: BUT NOT EVERYONE DOWNTOWN IS STUCK IN AN OFFICE ALL DAY.

SOME ARE IN CLASSROOMS, IN REHEARSAL HALLS, AND IN THE LIBRARY.

PAUL HENNIGAN IS THE PRESIDENT OF POINT PARK UNIVERSITY THAT HAS MOST OF ITS ENTIRE CAMPUS IN ONE SECTION OF DOWNTOWN, NEAR WHERE IT BEGAN AS THE BUSINESS TRAINING COLLEGE.

Hennigan: POINT PARK BEGAN AS A PROPRIETARY SCHOOL IN THE 1930s.

AND IT WAS STARTED BY A WOMAN NAMED DOROTHY FINKLEHOR, AND IT WAS A SCHOOL FOR, PRIMARILY THEN, YOUNG LADIES TO LEARN SECRETARIAL SKILLS, AND THAT DID VERY WELL.

AND THEN DOROTHY SAW THE WAVE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES COMING ALONG, AND SHE WANTED TO BE AHEAD OF THAT, SO SHE TOOK HER PRIVATELY OWNED PROPRIETARY SCHOOL AND CONVERTED IT INTO A NOT-FOR-PROFIT JUNIOR COLLEGE IN 1960, AND IT WAS CALLED POINT PARK JUNIOR COLLEGE.

DOROTHY NAMED IT AFTER POINT STATE PARK.

AND THEN IT BECAME POINT PARK COLLEGE IN 1966, OFFERING FOUR-YEAR DEGREES, AND THEN IT BECAME POINT PARK UNIVERSITY IN 2003.

Sebak: PROFESSOR ED MEENA TEACHES HISTORY HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY, INCLUDING PITTSBURGH HISTORY.

Meena: WE COVER EVERYTHING.

WE COVER FROM MR.

WILLIAM PENN ALL THE WAY TO MR.

WILLIAM PEDUTO.

SO IT WORKS OUT PRETTY GOOD.

AND IT'S GOING TO INVOLVE THE LOSS OF ABOUT 400 BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES.

WE NOW OFFER 52 MAJORS, PLUS ALL THE GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND THE PhD PROGRAMS.

Sebak: BUT ED'S PERSONAL HISTORY HERE GOES WAY BACK.

I CAME HERE IN OCTOBER OF 1966 AS A STUDENT, AND IT WAS A COLLEGE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT ME TO SAY WHAT THE TUITION WAS BACK THEN -- $600 A SEMESTER.

IT WAS BASICALLY A COMMUTER SCHOOL, AND THE COST OF LIVING WAS A LOT DIFFERENT.

I THINK YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY, NOT ONLY DO THEY LOOK FORWARD TO PURSUING ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES, BUT THEY LIKE THE DYNAMICS OF DOWNTOWN.

Hennigan: WE BELIEVE THAT THE URBANNESS OF THE SCHOOL DEFINITELY ATTRACTS STUDENTS.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, MORE AND MORE STUDENT SURVEYS ARE INDICATING THAT STUDENTS PREFER AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT TO A RURAL ENVIRONMENT, SO WE'RE TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF THAT ATTITUDE RIGHT NOW.

Sebak: THE OLD BUILDINGS THAT MAKE UP CAMPUS CAN BE IMPRESSIVE.

WE TALKED WITH PITTSBURGH ARCHITECT ELLIS SCHMIDLAPP ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF WHAT'S NOW KNOWN AS LAWRENCE HALL.

Schmidlapp: I THINK POINT PARK HAS OWNED IT SINCE THE 1970s.

IT WAS BUILT IN THE 1920s BY THE KEYSTONE CLUB.

IT WAS QUITE A GRAND FACILITY.

THEY RENTED THE WHOLE FIRST FLOOR OUT FOR RETAIL, AND THEN THEY CAME UP TO THEIR CLUBHOUSE.

SO IT WAS A CLUB FACILITY FOR AT LEAST 20 OR 30 YEARS, THEN IT BECAME THE SHERWYN HOTEL.

AND THEN SINCE 1970, POINT PARK UNIVERSITY'S LAWRENCE HALL, WHICH HAS ALL THE STUDENT FACILITIES, AS WELL AS DORMITORIES ABOVE.

THIS WHOLE BUILDING WAS DONE BY A WELL-KNOWN PITTSBURGH ARCHITECT, BENNO JANSSEN, AND THIS WAS A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD BETWEEN A KIND OF TRADITIONAL I WOULD CALL IT GOTHIC OR ROMANTIC DESIGN AND ART MODERNE.

SO THE BUILDING'S AN INTERESTING MIX OF THOSE TWO.

EVEN ON THE OUTSIDE, IT SORT OF GOES FROM GOTHIC AT THE BOTTOM TO ALMOST PROTO-MODERN AT THE TOP.

Sebak: AND WORKING WITH POINT PARK, ELLIS SCHMIDLAPP HELPED RESTORE SOME OF THAT ORIGINAL BEAUTY AND STYLE.

Schmidlapp: SO WE RESTORED THE WHOLE FACADE, NEW CUT LIMESTONE TO MATCH THE ORIGINAL DESIGN, BIG NEW WINDOWS TO MATCH THE ORIGINAL DESIGN.

IT'S A LOT OF FUN, AND IT'S VERY SATISFYING TO TAKE AN OLD BUILDING AND BRING IT BACK.

Sebak: JUST DOWN WOOD STREET, THERE'S THE UNIVERSITY CENTER.

PHILL HARRITY TAKES CARE OF THE ARCHIVES HERE AND KNOWS A BIT ABOUT THE BUILDING.

Harrity: IT ACTS AS THE LIBRARY AS WELL AS FOR THE FILM DEPARTMENT AND MANY OF OUR CLASSROOMS THAT WE HAVE IN THE BUILDING.

IT ORIGINALLY WAS BUILT AS THE COLONIAL TRUST BANK IN 1902, AND THAT WAS THIS BACK SECTION OVER HERE.

THE OLDEST PART OF THE BUILDING WAS ON THE FOURTH AVENUE SIDE.

NOW, IT WOULDN'T BE UNTIL 1905 WHEN THEY ADDED THE BACK SECTION BACK HERE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WHERE THE REALLY NICE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, MARBLE STAIRCASE, IS BACK THERE.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE A PICTURE FROM THE ORIGINAL BANK OF THEIR LONG TELLER DESK THAT STRETCHED 250 FEET.

IT WAS THE LONGEST TELLER DESK IN THE WORLD WHEN IT WAS BUILT.

AND THEN THE NEXT PART WOULD BE ADDED IN THE 1925, WHICH IS THE WOOD STREET ENTRANCE, WHICH IS WHERE IT ACTUALLY WOULD FORM A GIANT "T" AT THAT TIME.

POINT PARK GOT THIS IN AROUND 1998.

Sebak: STUDENTS LIKE THIS PLACE.

Harrity: THIS IS THEIR HANGOUT.

SOME OF THE FAVORITE PLACES STUDENTS LIKE TO HANG OUT IN THE BUILDING IS ACTUALLY DOWN IN THE VAULT DOWNSTAIRS.

Sebak: THIS UNIVERSITY CENTER IS ALSO DESTINED TO CONNECT TO THE HUGE NEW PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE PROJECT.

THE PLAYHOUSE HAS BEEN IN OAKLAND SINCE THE 1930s AND WAS BOUGHT BY THEN POINT PARK COLLEGE IN 1968.

IN THE 20-TEENS, PLANS HAVE BEEN MADE TO BUILD A NEW PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE HERE DOWNTOWN.

Burger: THE NEW PLAYHOUSE IS IN THE BLOCK DESCRIBED BY WOOD STREET, SMITHFIELD, FOURTH, AND FORBES.

THE UNIVERSITY OWNS ABOUT 1.5 ACRES IN THAT BLOCK.

Sebak: WE WALKED OVER TO FORBES AVENUE WITH ELMER BURGER, THE UNIVERSITY'S ARCHITECT AND PLANNER WHO KNOWS THE PLANS.

IT'S 82,000 SQUARE FEET OF NEW CONSTRUCTION AND ABOUT 50,000 SQUARE FEET OF RENOVATION.

WE WILL HAVE THREE PERFORMING VENUES, AND THERE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 120 PERFORMANCES A YEAR.

YOU'LL COME IN OFF OF FORBES AVENUE.

Sebak: IT'LL BE A NEW BUILDING, BUT THE FACADES OF THREE BUILDINGS ON FORBES WILL BE SAVED.

Burger: THE FIRST IS THE ROYAL BUILDING, THE SECOND IS THE GETMAN BUILDING, AND THEN THE PALACE THEATER.

SO, PART OF OUR NEW PLAYHOUSE PROJECT IS THAT WE WILL DISMANTLE THE FACADES THAT ARE REMAINING UP ON THE SECOND LEVEL, PIECE BY PIECE, SAVE THEM IN CONTROLLED STORAGE AND THEN RE-INSTALL THEM IN AN OUTDOOR PLAZA.

SO, ONCE THOSE FACADES ARE DOWN, WE'LL TAKE THE BUILDINGS DOWN AND BUILD A NEW CONSTRUCTION.

Sebak: THE PROJECT WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE RENOVATION OF SOME MORE OLD BUILDINGS, MANY OLD BANKS, ON 4th AVENUE, WHERE ELMER WANTED TO SHOW OFF THE OLD PITTSBURGH STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING.

IT STARTED AS BANK, IT WAS THE STOCK EXCHANGE IN THE MID-20th CENTURY, AND AFTER THAT IT WAS TWO DIFFERENT NIGHTCLUBS.

MASSIVE BRONZE DOORS THAT ARE BEING RESTORED.

Sebak: ELMER HAS FAVORITE SPOTS INSIDE, INTERESTING DETAILS, A COOL OLD OFFICE, AND UP SEVERAL FLIGHTS OF STAIRS, THERE ARE SOME OLD STAINED GLASS SKYLIGHTS IN DECENT SHAPE THAT HAVE BEEN HIDDEN BY A CEILING PUT UP IN THE 1940s.

MUCH OF THIS WILL BE RESTORED AND SHARED AS PART OF THE PLAYHOUSE PROJECT.

Meena: THAT PLAYHOUSE IS REALLY GONNA CEMENT AND LOCK IN EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S TAKING PLACE IN THIS PART OF TOWN.

IT'S A BIG STEP FORWARD FOR THE UNIVERSITY AND FOR THE CONSERVATORY OF PERFORMING ARTS.

Burger: WE ARE ROOTED IN SUSTAINABILITY BECAUSE RULE NUMBER ONE IS YOU RE-USE.

AND WE'VE REUSED ALL THE BUILDINGS WE'RE IN NOW.

Sebak: LOTS OF FOLKS ARE REUSING OLD BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN.

LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE DECIDING TO LIVE DOWNTOWN.

IN OUR PROGRAM BACK IN 1992, PITTSBURGH ARCHITECT AND URBAN DESIGNER DON CARTER BROUGHT US OVER TO WHERE GRANT STREET MEETS LIBERTY.

NOW THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATION THAT EXISTS HERE NOW IS REALLY ONE OF THE THREE OR FOUR BEST TRAIN STATIONS IN THE COUNTRY.

Sebak: TODAY, DON STILL ADMIRES THIS BUILDING.

Don: THIS IS ONE OF THE REAL GEMS OF PITTSBURGH.

THE ARCHITECT OF THIS BUILDING WAS DANIEL BURNHAM.

IT WAS BUILT AT THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY.

THIS WAS THE GATEWAY TO PITTSBURGH, JUST LIKE THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS RIGHT NOW.

SO PEOPLE WOULD DISEMBARK FROM THE TRAINS, THEY WOULD COME TO THE MAIN DOORS, AND THEY WOULD COME OUT TO THIS SPACE.

AND THERE WAS THIS BIG ARCHWAY ENTRANCE, AND THERE WAS THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, A LITTLE BIT SMOKIER IN THOSE DAYS THAN TODAY.

Sebak: THE OLD STATION WAS CONVERTED INTO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS, AND IN 1997, DON MOVED IN HERE AND BECAME A DOWNTOWN RESIDENT.

Don: IT WAS A HARD DECISION, BUT I WAS WORKING DOWNTOWN, AND MY WIFE BEA WAS WORKING DOWNTOWN.

WHEN OUR KIDS WERE FINALLY, YOU KNOW, OUT OF THE HOUSE AND WE WERE EMPTY-NESTERS, WE GOT SERIOUS.

Don: SO ONE DAY SHE SAID, "WELL, LET'S GO LOOK AT THE PENNSYLVANIAN APARTMENTS."

Bea: AND WE DID, AND WE FOUND THIS PLACE.

Don: AND IT WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY.

WE WALKED IN AND WE SAW THIS VIEW INTO THE STRIP DISTRICT AND LAWRENCEVILLE AND BLOOMFIELD, AND WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER, AND WE SAID, "THIS IS PERFECT.

THIS IS PERFECT."

Bea: THIS IS SUCH A FABULOUS BUILDING AND BIG WINDOWS AND HIGH CEILINGS.

LOTS OF LIGHT, LOTS OF LIGHT.

Don: OH, I LOVE IT.

I WOULD RECOMMEND IT.

I'D DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT, BUT IT'S NOT FOR EVERYBODY.

SOME PEOPLE STILL WANT A YARD AND A GARDEN.

IF ANYTHING I MISS IS THE FRONT PORCH.

Bea: IT SIMPLIFIED OUR LIVES SO THAT WE COULD JUST GET UP AND GO TO WORK.

WE HAVE A VIEW NOT ONLY TOWARD THE EAST, TOWARD THE STRIP DISTRICT, BUT BECAUSE THIS IS A TWO-STORY APARTMENT, OUR BEDROOMS ON THE SECOND FLOOR ACTUALLY LOOK BACK AT THE GULF TOWER, WHERE MY OFFICE WAS.

Bea: WELL, WE LOVE THIS SPACE.

I MEAN, FOR US, THIS IS JUST A PERFECT SPOT.

Don: OH, IT'S FABULOUS.

I MEAN, WE CAN WALK TO EVERYWHERE.

AND I'VE NEVER, NEVER LOOKED BACK, NEVER LOOKED BACK.

AND WE'RE JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE.

YOU KNOW, 18 YEARS, AND WE'RE STILL SMILING.

AND WE LOVE THE RESTAURANTS DOWNTOWN -- SO MANY MORE THAN WERE HERE WHEN WE MOVED HERE 18 YEARS AGO.

MANY, MANY OPTIONS.

ALL THAT VARIETY OF STUFF HAPPENING HERE.

Sebak: WHO KNOWS?

THEY MAY WALK OVER TO MARKET SQUARE, WHERE THERE'S THIS GREAT LITTLE PLACE CALLED YOVI'S TASTE OF CHICAGO.

IT'S OWNED AND RUN BY A GUY NAMED LEE YOVANOF, ALSO KNOWN AS YOVI.

Yovanof: MOST OF MY CUSTOMERS ACTUALLY CALL ME "YOVI," YEAH, WHICH IS KIND OF NICE.

IT'S JUST PART OF MY LAST NAME.

MY NAME IS YOVANOF, SO I MADE IT YOVI'S.

Jeff: SO I'VE BEEN WORKING IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE LUNCH SPOTS.

IT'S WELL HIDDEN, BUT I'M GLAD IT'S A NICE PLACE TO GO TO.

I'M GOING TO IT LIKE EVERY WEEK NOW.

I COME HERE ABOUT ONCE A WEEK.

I'VE BEEN COMING TO YOVI'S FOR MAYBE 10 OR 15 YEARS.

Sebak: FOR 19 YEARS, 1987 TILL 2006, YOVI'S WAS SEVERAL BLOCKS AWAY ON LIBERTY AVENUE AT SEVENTH STREET.

THEN IT WAS CLOSED FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS UNTIL YOVI DECIDED TO RETURN TO DOWNTOWN IN 2011.

Yovanof: I DID MISS THE CUSTOMERS VERY MUCH.

I MEAN, AFTER A WHILE, IT'S NOT JUST A JOB WHERE YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW?

I WAS LUCKY THIS PLACE WAS PRETTY MUCH READY TO GO.

Butelli: MATT'S HAVING A ONE DOG, NATURAL CASING?

Sebak: BORN IN MACEDONIA, YOVI CAME TO AMERICA WHEN HE WAS 7, AND HE ALWAYS DECORATES TO HONOR HIS FIRST ADOPTED CITY OF CHICAGO, ITS SPORTS TEAMS AND ALL.

Jeff: I'VE NOTICED THE BEARS REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THE RESTAURANT, YEAH.

BIG PICTURE OF CHICAGO RIGHT HERE.

CAN YOU GET A BETTER HOT DOG IN PITTSBURGH THAN YOVI'S?

I DON'T KNOW.

Yovanof: WELL, YOU KNOW, WE GO BETWEEN THE CHICAGO DOG AND THE ITALIAN BEEF.

I TELL THEM WHAT BOTH OF THEM ARE, AND THEN YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION.

Butelli: NO PEPPERS?

TWO DOG COMBO OUT THE DOOR -- NO PEPPERS.

WHAT ARE YOU DRINKING?

Sebak: KELLY BUTELLI, WHO TAKES AND CALLS THE ORDERS, KNOWS THAT THE DOGS HERE ARE UNUSUAL.

Butelli: THEY ARE DIFFERENT.

SOME PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A CHICAGO DOG IS WHEN THEY WALK IN THE DOOR.

BUT BY THE TIME THEY LEAVE, THEY DO.

Yovanof: A CHICAGO DOG ITSELF IS AN ALL-BEEF WIENER, AND IT GOES ON A POPPY SEED BUN, A STEAMED POPPY SEED BUN.

AND THE CHICAGO STYLE IS WHEN YOU PUT YELLOW MUSTARD.

IT'S A GREEN RELISH WE PUT ON THERE, A PICKLE SPEAR, TWO TOMATO WEDGES, SOME DICED ONIONS, SPORT PEPPERS, AND A LITTLE CELERY SALT.

THE FOOD IS DELICIOUS.

IT'S PLENTIFUL.

IT'S TASTY.

Yovanof: AND SOMETIMES IF THEY GET THE DOGS, LIKE, A SMALL BEEF SANDWICH MATO TAKE WITH THEM,, SO THEY KNOW WHAT IT IS.

THE ITALIAN BEEF IS WORTH COMING BACK FOR.

YOU CAN'T GET THIS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY.

Yovanof: ITALIAN BEEF, IT'S -- YOU TAKE A WHOLE TOP ROUND, A WHOLE ROAST, SPICE IT UP, COOK IT, THEN WHEN IT'S DONE, SLICE IT THIN AND PUT IT BACK IN ITS OWN JUICE.

AND THAT'S OUR ITALIAN BEEF WITH SOME LITTLE SECRETS IN BETWEEN THERE.

BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT FAST BEFORE IT FALLS APART.

Butelli: IT GETS HECTIC SOMETIMES, BUT IT WORKS.

BUT IT'S ALL FAST, AND PEOPLE GET THEIR FOOD QUICKLY AND WE GET THEM OUT THE DOOR AS FAST AS WE CAN.

JUST CHILI, CHEESE,AND ONION?

Sebak: YOU CAN GET ANY SANDWICH AS AS A COMBO -- YOU KNOW, WITH FRIES AND A DRINK -- BUT THERE'S ALSO A SANDWICH CALLED A COMBO.

Yovanof: A COMBO IS A HOT SAUSAGE, ITALIAN SAUSAGE, AND ITALIAN BEEF ON ONE ROLL.

Butelli: COMBO COMBO IS ITALIAN SAUSAGE WITH THE ITALIAN BEEF ON TOP.

Yovanof: WITH A LITTLE GIARDINIERA MIX ON TOP OF IT.

Butelli: COMES WITH FRIES AND A DRINK.

Yovanof: THE GIARDINIERA WE MAKE OURSELVES.

IT'S SPORT PEPPERS, CELERY, CARROTS AND OIL, STUFF LIKE THAT.

WE CHOP IT UP, AND SO WE MAKE THAT OURSELVES.

Elmo: THAT'S DELICIOUS.

THAT'S WHAT YOVI'S IS ALL ABOUT TO ME.

SO, I LIKE TO THINK THEY MAKE IT SPECIAL FOR ME, BUT THEY MAKE IT FOR EVERYBODY.

Sebak: AND IT'S JUST ONE OF MANY, MANY RESTAURANTS DOWNTOWN.

Yovanof: BUT YOU WALK AROUND, THERE'S SO MANY NICE RESTAURANTS AND EVERYTHING OPENED UP, AND I LOVE WALKING TO THESE RESTAURANTS THAT ARE OPEN AT NIGHT, YOU KNOW?

AND JUST STOPPING BY THERE EVEN IF IT'S FOR A DRINK OR A SNACK, APPETIZER, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

PEOPLE FROM IL PIZZAIOLO ARE GOOD FRIENDS, SIENNA NEXT DOOR, NOLA'S, THEY'RE EXCELLENT.

THE GUYS FROM BUTCHER & THE RYE AND MEAT & POTATOES AND THEY'RE GOOD FRIENDS AND GOOD CUSTOMERS.

IT'S SO NICE THAT WE CAN ALL ENJOY EACH OTHER'S BUSINESSES, I GUESS.

Sebak: DEFINITELY.

AND THERE ARE FOLKS WHO MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT TO KEEP DOWNTOWN LIVELY AND LOVED AND BUSY.

JEREMY WALDRUP IS PRESIDENT AND C.E.O.

OF WHAT'S CALLED THE PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.

Waldrup: ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO IS TO CUT THROUGH THE ALLEYWAYS.

I THINK PITTSBURGH HAS A GREAT NETWORK OF ALLEYWAYS THAT ARE ACTUALLY CONNECTED TO PLACES SO YOU CAN WALK THROUGH THEM.

YOU GET TO SEE KIND OF THE GRITTY UNDERBELLY OF THE CITY BUT ALSO SOME BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS THAT THEY JUST DON'T BUILD ANYMORE.

Sebak: BUT PROMOTING ALLEYS IS JUST PART OF WHAT HIS ORGANIZATION DOES.

AND YOU WANT WHAT?

LIKE 5,000 OF THESE?

Waldrup: THE PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP WAS FORMED IN 1994 TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE ECONOMIC VITALITY OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, SO WE PROVIDE A WHOLE HOST OF CLEAN AND SAFE SERVICES AS WELL AS PROGRAMMING FROM FARMERS' MARKETS TO NIGHT MARKETS TO BIG FESTIVITIES LIKE LIGHT UP NIGHT... Both: AND TODAY IS LIGHT UP NIGHT!

Waldrup: ...WHICH BRINGS OVER 300,000 PEOPLE INTO THE CENTER OF THE CITY TO KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

THE LIGHTS, THE FIREWORKS.

JUST THE ENERGY OF THE PEOPLE.

I COME TO LIGHT UP NIGHT EVERY YEAR.

WE CAME TO HAVE FUN!

WE CAME TO HAVE FUN!

Waldrup: SO WE ENCOURAGE ALL THE BUILDING OWNERS FOR THIS ONE TIME A YEAR TO TURN ALL THE LIGHTS ON.

WE TRY TO MAKE IT A FAMILY TRADITION EVERY YEAR TO COME DOWN.

IT'S VERY NICE.

Waldrup: WE HAVE NINE TREE LIGHTINGS AND CEREMONY DEDICATIONS Carmel: I LOVE THE LIGHT UP NIGHT, AND I LOVE BEING HERE WITH ALL THE EXCITEMENT AND THE PEOPLE ARE HAPPY!

WE'RE ALL PITTSBURGHERS TONIGHT.

ENJOY OUR HOME!

GOD BLESS!

Crowd: TWO...ONE!

Waldrup: THINGS LIKE THE HORNE'S DEPARTMENT STORE TREE, WHICH IS NOW THE UNITY TREE, HAS BEEN LIGHTING UP FOR OVER 60 YEARS.

OH, AND IT'S COLD!

Woman: IT'S BEEN ABOUT TWO YEARS, BUT I FIGURE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE OLDER NOW, IT'S TIME TO COME BACK AND REMIND THEM WHAT PITTSBURGH AND CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT, SO... SHE MADE ME COME TONIGHT.

Waldrup: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT.

I THINK EVERY NIGHT'S A GREAT NIGHT TO BE DOWNTOWN, BUT THIS TRULY IS THE WAY.

IT'S JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING EVERY YEAR, SO YOU MAY NOT QUITE HAVE CAUGHT THAT CHRISTMAS BUG YET.

BUT THIS GIVES ITS TO YOU, AND IT'S A MAGICAL EVENING.

Sebak: BUT THERE'S MUCH, MUCH MORE THAN JUST LIGHTS.

[ CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS ] THERE'S AMAZING MUSIC AT HEINZ HALL,AM AND LOTS OF LAUGHS AT THE ARCADE COMEDY ON LIBERTY.

Man: A HEALTHY, PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CASUAL FRIENDS.

[ LAUGHTER ] Sebak: THERE ARE COUNTLESS THINGS TO DO AND SEE.

IT'S A CELEBRATION OF THE CITY AS MUCH AS THE SEASON.

I THINK IT'S EVEN BETTER NOW THAN IT WAS BEFORE.

TONIGHT I JUST WANTEDTHE ENERGY.

DID A LITTLE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, HAD A HECK OF A GOOD TIME.

AND IT'S FUN!

AND, OF COURSE, WE END THE NIGHT WITH FIREWORKS.

Man: THERE'S A REAL SENSE OF TOGETHERNESS IN PITTSBURGH IN GENERAL, BUT THIS TIME OF YEAR, IT'S JUST OUT OF THE WORLD.

Sebak: YOU KNOW, I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT IT IS USUALLY DOWNTOWN WHERE WE COME TO WATCH FIREWORKS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

IT'S JUST OUR BIG NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WE HAVE TO BE HAPPY THAT IT CHANGES ALL THE TIME, EVEN WHILE WE PRESERVE AND RESTORE MANY OF THE THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT IT.

IT'S OLD AND INTERESTING.

IT'S NEW AND INNOVATIVE.

IT'S ENTERTAINING AND AMAZING.

IT'S A WALKABLE, COMPACT CITY CENTER THAT MAYBE MORE THAN EVER FEELS LIKE HOME.

IS THIS BORING FOR YOU GUYS WHEN YOU JUST -- [ LAUGHS ] FLAVORED CRICKETS AND MEALWORMS.

WE SHOULD CUT THAT!

I'M JUST 19.

WHEN I WAS WORKING AT THE GULF TOWER, I COULD LOOK OVER TO MY APARTMENT.

AND I MEAN THAT GENUINELY, NOT BECAUSE I'M BEING FILMED.

Man: THEY'RE PUTTING THE WINDOWS DOWN.

HOLD ON.

[ LAUGHS ] HAD A HARD LIFE.

[ LAUGHS ] Weston: THEIR LEGS GET CAUGHT IN YOUR TEETH, SO IT'S A LITTLE GROSS.

LIFE IN THE CITY.

SHE'S USUALLY THE ONE DOING THE INTERVIEWS, AND I HAVE TO DO THE WORK, SO... Don: IF WE COULD STRING A WIRE LIKE BATMAN, THEN I COULD JUST SOAR DOWN THE WIRE, RIGHT TO MY APARTMENT.

Man: I NEED THAT SHOT.

"RETURN TO DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY PNC.

FOR MORE THAN 160 YEARS, PNC HAS BEEN HEADQUARTERED IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH COMMITTED TO ENRICHING THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

WE SUPPORT THE RESURGENCE OF PITTSBURGH AND THOSE WHO MAKE THE CITY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY.

AND BY THE BUHL FOUNDATION -- SERVIING SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SINCE 1927 ALSO BY THE EQT FOUNDATION, SUPPORTER OF INNOVATIVE LOCAL PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITIY INITATIVES IN OUR REGION.

BY POINT PARK UNIVERSITY -- INNOVATING AND EDUCATING IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH SINCE 1933.

AND BY THE PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.