This spring, mens' clothing store
Jos. A. Bank
will be moving from its current Downtown location at 527 Smithfield
Street to Market Square. Another recent Market Square development
includes the upcoming installation of a beautiful work of public art.
Jos. A. Bank signed a deal with developer
Millcraft Industries
at the beginning of February to lease space in the 40,000-square-foot
Market Square Place development, located in the former G.C. Murphy
building. Herky Pollock of
CB Richard Ellis
represented Millcraft Industries in the deal. Jos. A. Bank will share
ground floor retail space in Market Square Place with the recent
additions of Liberty Travel, DiBella's Old Fashioned Submarines,
Chipotle, and Vallozi's.
"This relocation,
which will feature the Jos. A. Bank's new prototypical layout and
design, further validates the success of our vibrant central district
and all the new energy that has been harnessed with the new development
project in the corridor," says Pollock.
Keep your head up when entering Market Square from Fifth Avenue this
spring as artist Carin Mincemoyer's light sculpture "Diamond, Diamonds"
will soon be hanging around. The piece entails the installation of 80
glass "diamonds" lit with LED lights and hung from two poles--a nod to
the public space known as The Diamond, which was located at the Market
Square site until it was demolished in 1961. Mincemoyer won a design
competition to illuminate the connection between the square and the
Cultural District after the City's Office of Public Art put out a call
for proposals.
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Writer:
John FarleySources: Herky Pollock, executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis
Hollie Geitner, vice president of marketing and communications for the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership