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Shopping in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Shopping Directories

  • Pittsburgh Magazine City Guide
    Each July, Pittsburgh Magazine publishes a "City Guide" issue with information on shopping areas.
  • PopCity
    PopCity has shopping and dining information by city neighborhood.

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Pittsburgh Shopping Centers

City

  • Lawrenceville: 16:62 Design Zone
    Extending from the 16th Street Bridge in The Strip District to the 62nd Street Bridge in Lawrenceville, the 16:62 Design Zone includes more than 100 shops, galleries, studios, and professional services firms.
  • Bloomfield
    A directory to Shopping in Bloomfield from the Bloomfield Business Association.
  • Downtown Pittsburgh
    This is the website of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership with webpages that list downtown retail stores.
  • Fifth Avenue Place
    http://www.fifthavenueplacepa.com/
    A shopping & office complex located in the heart of Downtown's Cultural and Central Business Districts.
  • Neighbors in the Strip
    This is the official website for Pittsburgh's Strip District, a wholesale district just north of Downtown Pittsburgh, filled with produce, fish, meat, and ethnic food stores and restaurants.
  • Shady Side
    Walnut Street in Shady Side (northeast of Oakland and downtown) offers upscale chains and many boutique stores.
  • South Side Works
    Located on the South Side near the Hot Metal Bridge (28th Street).
  • Station Square
    Located just across the Smithfield bridge from Downtown Pittsburgh.

East

  • Miracle Mile Shopping Center
    http://www.miraclemileshoppingcenter.com/
    Located in Monroeville, 15 minutes east of Pittsburgh, just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Parkway East (376).
  • Monroeville Mall
    http://www.monroevillemall.com/
    Located about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh in Monroeville. One of the first covered malls in the Pittsburgh area and location for George Romero's movie Dawn of the Dead.

North

  • Grove City Outlets
    http://www.primeoutlets.com/cntrdefault.asp?cntrid=1024
    An outlet shopping mall with 140 stores located 1 hour north of Pittsburgh on Interstate 79.
  • Northway Mall
    http://www.northwaymall.com/
    Located in the North Hills
  • Pittsburgh Mills
    http://www.pittsburghmills.com/
    Located 1/2 hour north of Pittsburgh on highway 28 north, in Tarentum PA.
  • Ross Park Mall
    http://www.ross-park-mall.com/
    Located 9 miles north of Pittsburgh, just off McKnight Road and 15 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.
  • The Waterworks
    http://www.shopthewaterworks.com/
    Conveniently located at Fox Chapel and Freeport roads, The Waterworks Mall is accessible from Route 28 and draws visitors from the North Hills and Fox Chapel areas, various eastern suburbs and neighboring communities across the Allegheny River, including Shadyside and Squirrel Hill.

South

  • Century III Mall
    http://www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=155
    Century III Mall, with more than 180 specialty stores and services, is located 20 minutes south of Pittsburgh on state route 51 in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
  • Galleria of Mt. Lebanon
    http://galleriapgh.com/
    Galleria of Mt. Lebanon is located in the heart of the South Hills on Route 19, just 10 minutes south from downtown Pittsburgh.
  • South Hills Village
    http://www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=159
    South Hills Village, with more than 130 stores, is conveniently located just 7.5 miles south of Pittsburgh at the corner of Rt. 19 and Fort Couch Road in the municipalities of Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair.

West

  • AirMall
    http://www.airmall.com/
    This is the fabulous and world famous Pittsburgh International Airport mall. Check here for the map that tells you where everything is so that you can quickly make your purchases between flights!

  • Robinson Mall
    http://www.shoprobinsonmall.com/
    Located west of Pittsburgh behind Robinson Town Centre on the way to the Airport.

Pittsburgh Department Stores

  • Macy's
    http://www.macys.com/
    Originally Horne's, then Lazarus, now Macy's. A division of Federated Department Stores, Inc. Now Federated and May have merged and Kaufmann's (of Fallingwater fame) stores have closed or become Macy's.

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Pittsburgh Memorabilia

  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Remember Pittsburgh
    http://www.rememberpittsburgh.org/
    The shop offers a variety of logo products including shirts, hats, mugs, bags, booklites and keychains along with The Bridges of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County gift set and the Remember Pittsburgh collection.
  • Heinzstuff
    http://www.heinzstuff.com/
    Need a tomato ketchup T-Shirt? a pickle clock? a Heinz Pickle Hat? This is the place to go!
  • Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center
    http://www.pghhistory.org/
    Need something for a Pittsburgh history buff? The Heinz Historical Center is selling museum and photo items at an online store in conjunction with the Smithsonian.
  • Lincoln Highway (US Route 30) Heritage Corridor
    http://www.lhhc.org/
    Click on LH Gift Shop for hats, shirts, etc. commemorating Lincoln Highway.
  • Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
    http://www.phlf.org/
    Some of their later books can be ordered online.
  • Pittsburgh Penguins
    http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/
    Click on "Shop" for jerseys, hats, outerwear, collectibles, and other memorabilia.
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
    http://www.pittsburghpirates.com/
    Click on "Shop" for Pirates memorabilia.
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds (TM)
    http://www.riverhounds.com/
    Order bumper stickers, T-Shirts, sweatshirts, and hats for Pittsburgh's official soccer team.
  • Pittsburgh Steelers
    http://www.steelers.com/
    Click on "Shopping" for jerseys, Tshirts, sweat shirts, Terrible Towels, and more.

  • The Pitt Shop
    http://www.thepittshop.com/
    The Official Headquarters for University of Pittsburgh Licensed Merchandise.
  • University of Pittsburgh Press
    http://www.upress.pitt.edu/
    Look here for books on Pittsburgh that would make great gifts and great reads.

Unique Stores

  • Carnegie Museum of Art Store
    http://www.carnegieartstore.com/
    Includes images from the museums collection.
  • Curtain Call
    http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/Curtaincall.html
    If you need to send someone a CD for a present, think about checking out the online version of the Pittsburgh Symphony's retail store downtown. They offer a limited selection of CDs, books & videos, clothing, collectibles, jewelry and decor items.
  • Homer Laughlin China Company Factory Outlet
    http://www.hlchina.com/
    Located in Newell, West Virginia, due west from Pittsburgh just across the Pennsylvania border on the Ohio River, the Homer Laughlin China Company is the manufacturer of that colorful sturdy Fiesta dishware. Now they have a store online so that you can see all their colors and dishware.
  • Irish Design Center
    http://www.irishdesigncenter.com/
    Located on South Craig Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the Irish Design Center is a great place to find beautiful, high quality gifts.
  • Littlearth
    http://www.littlearth.com/
    Their Littlearth brand of fashion accessories and gifts, created using sustainable design methods (including recycled and recycleable materials), includes a recycled rubber belt studded with beer caps collected from bars all around Pittsburgh, PA
  • Magnificent Manufacturing, Inc.
    http://makeitmagnificent.com/
    Are you in the market for custom made tiles? Even if you are not, take time to browse this website for great ideas.
  • Mexico Lindo
    http://www.mexicolindo.biz/
    Who would have thought that you could find beautiful Mexican artesanias in the heart of Squirrel Hill?
  • Ten Thousand Villages
    http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/
    Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by selling their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. In Pittsburgh, Ten Thousand Villages operates a non-profit store, run primarily by volunteers, at 5824 Forbes Avenue, in Squirrel Hill (Phone: 412-421-2160). Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans from 30 countries who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed. This income helps pay for food, education, health care and housing.
  • Wendell August Forge
    http://www.wendellaugust.com/
    An aluminum metalcrafter in Grove City, Pennsylvania (1 hour north of Pittsburgh) that is famous for gift and commemorative items.