The
Gateway Center in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a high-rise building complex with of office space in five buildings. The plans developed during
World War II to redevelop the dense and "blighted" forks of the
Ohio River into both
Point State Park and a "Gateway" of offices. It was announced as fully financed on September 21, 1949 when the
Equitable Insurance Co. of New York agreed to underwrite the project after securing lease agreements from
Westinghouse,
Mellon Financial and other major corporations. Although mainly a run down warehouse district the Center did require the demolition of the 1904 Beaux Arts 11 floor
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal. Gateway Center was purchased in 2004 by
Hertz Investment Group, a
Los Angeles, California, based real estate investment company, for US$55 million.
Eggers & Higgins, architects on the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial were the architects for the first three buildings, One, Two and Three Gateway Center.