Bakery Square
shopping and office development in Pittsburgh's East End
Bakery Square is an open-air shopping and office development in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Larimer, adjacent to the neighborhoods of Shadyside and East Liberty in the city's East End. Bakery Square is located on 5.1 acres along Penn Avenue.
History
The main Bakery Square building was built as a Nabisco factory in 1918 and operated until 1998. Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwest Pennsylvania bought the building in 1999 and leased it to the Atlantic Baking Company, which was subsequently merged with Bake-Line Group and then went bankrupt in 2004. In 2006, the City of Pittsburgh declared the building blighted, paving the way for a redevelopment plan by Walnut Capital in 2007. The building opened after remodeling in May 2010.
In June 2014, President Barack Obama visited TechShop, a workshop and prototyping studio, in Bakery Square.
Office tenants
Bakery Square has approximately 950,000 square feet of office space. The campus is home to major tenants including:
University of Pittsburgh, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
Human Engineering Research Laboratories
Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology Continuing Education (RSTCE)
Masters of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics Program
Carnegie Mellon University
Hellbender
U.S. Army
Sheetz
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Google operates an office in Bakery Square. A piece of the Nabisco factory's original equipment, a large dough mixer, was left standing in homage to the site's industrial roots.
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