Saks Fifth Avenue Leaving Downtown Pittsburgh
Saks Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh is closing. The store says it's losing money and couldn't negotiate a better deal with the owners of the current property.
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Saks Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh is closing. The store says it's losing money and couldn't negotiate a better deal with the owners of the current property.
NewsRadio 1020 KDKA's Mike Pintek talks with Pam Banks, senior counsel with Consumers Union, the nonprofit owners of Consumer Reports magazine. Pintek asks Banks how Bank of America's customers are reacting to the fee, and whether this is the start of a larger trend.
With Market Square now bustling, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation announced plans to restore and renovate several historic buildings located in the Market and Fifth Streets corridor.
A retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was in Pittsburgh today, meeting with a number of local employers with jobs to fill. It was all part of a special program to encourage the hiring of local veterans.
It's one more major example of just how huge this Marcellus Shale boom is becoming. Shell Oil may build something called an ethylene cracker - a major petro-chemical plant - in our region. The plant is expected to spawn a whole new industry - producing ethylene - a by-product of shale drilling to make plastics.
KDKA AM's Chris Moore talks to Steve Denning, business consultant and author of The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century.
First built in 1887 and expanded in 1913 as Kaufmann's, the downtown building now known as Macy's hasn't changed much until now. Nine floors of shopping will become six – still double the size of the suburban Macy's.
PPG Place in downtown Pittsburgh officially has a new owner. Highwoods Properties of Raleigh, N.C. announced that it was acquiring the complex from an affiliate of the Hillman Company.
NewsRadio 1020 KDKA's Chris Moore hosts Karl Denninger, CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, founding contributor to conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, and one of the founders of the Tea Party movement.
When the Midfield Terminal of Pittsburgh International Airport opened in October of 1992 it was the dawning of a new age of aviation for the region.
The slots are as popular as ever at Rivers Casino, but there's something else that's attracting the crowd.
Lani Lazzari was a cute, Pippy Longstocking-looking girl when she started her business at age 11. Today, she's a young woman - a 17-year-old CEO working full-time to run her company.
While Hurricane Irene batters the east coast, don't let the nice weather here fool you. Higher gasoline prices in this area could be the result.
Striking Verizon workers gathered for a rally in front of Sen. Pat Toomey's office in Station Square and then marched to company's headquarters downtown.
Verizon Spokesperson Lee Gierczynski can't say how many people in our area may be waiting for landline phone service to be restored for various reasons, but he says the wait is definitely longer than normal.
