No. No, I refuse. “Acrisure Stadium” is bad enough, but this is a bridge too far.

It will always be the Kaufmanns clock. It's still the Marshall Field's clock in Chicago and there's no Marshall Field's anymore, either,

I just recently found out there's a target downtown. I live less than two miles from downtown. As you can see, I don't get out much

So… finally a “grocery store” downtown? 🤣🤣🤣

How long has it been there?

You'll probably say something like "several years" lol

Oh I don’t know, I haven’t been back in 13 years… but I also know there’s been a constant push to try since the 90’s.

There was some kind of food 4 less or save a lot or something like that on the hill, but it was shut down before the pandemic. I think the closest actual grocery store would be either Oakland or south side. And south side isn't what it used to be

it opened up within the last two years afaik

Thanks

The first time I walked into this new Target it hurt as I remembered what the layout was when it was Kaufmann's. That building will always be Kaufmann's for me. I miss roaming through all the floors.

Delete this, you troll.

(also, calm dahn, folks. I know this rabble-rouser in real life. haha.)

It opened last June, I believe.

Nope...It'll always be the Kauffman's clock

It was around June-August of last year

I love and miss this Kaufmann's so much. I had mixed emotions, remembering all of the floors and all of the fun. I am so so so so happy to see the building have a new life. I will also forever miss Kaufmann's.

Target officially opened in the summer of 2022. The building also has a hotel (which opened in 2019) and several floors of apartments. There is still retail space open. Plus, Burlington is moving down the street and a Five Below is coming. New life for this Pittsburgh gem!

Target Clock, presented by UPMC and Acrisure.

There was a nice Shop N Save in the Hill District, built at a cost of $8 million. It closed in 2019 due to shoplifting, crime and the general negative effects of locating a nice store in a hostile neighborhood.

For what???

RIP Kaufmanns and Macys

I agree with you 100%. I miss the days of roaming the floors and finding bargains. The holiday decor excitement.

Right on. I always assumed the N. Side Giant Eagle was the downtown grocery support.

This place smells like a gym locker room.

Ok, so it was a Shop and Save. That's what I was referring to but for some reason though it was a discount grocery

Five below is coming downtown? Makes me want to actually cross a bridge

When I first moved to Pittsburgh I got a second job as seasonal help there (Christmas 1999). On my first shift, someone dropped me off in front of some shirts and said "straighten this up" and then they left me there with nothing to do for the rest of the night.

I asked every employee who came by what else I could do and they always said they'd ask but I don't think I ever saw the same person twice. After 3 hours of boredom I decided it wasn't worth it and just went home, then I dodged their calls for a week when they tried to schedule me for more shifts.

100% better than an abandoned building.

Yep! The City Paper had a brief mention in July, following the opening of Target.

Salem’s is planning to open a store at that site sometime this year.

Misspelled "Gimbels"

They had a cafe with cookies with like 4 inches of frosting. Mmmm

Aw, you don’t like the way Acrisure rolls right off the tongue back molers?

Hey, glad to see something. The romanticism of the old city is coming back, in the form of….Target

Surge pounder cans and cheap screen protectors? I'm fucking there!

that’s not true at all. it closed because the lease holder didn’t pay the property taxes on it. https://www.wtae.com/article/shop-n-save-in-pittsburgh-hill-district-will-close/26432615

I meet my first love under that clock, there and in the undergarments department! Lol

I think they meant things that occupied that particular building.

And Horne's.

they’re opening a five below next door to target eventually too… big happenings lol

When Macy's took over, they said "we'll just call it the Macy's Clock!" Uh no, that's not gonna happen.

I am sure that will attract a lot of people to downtown /s

I saw pregnancy tests at dollar tree once. One dollar pregnancy tests. Imagine that

They called Star Lake so many different names over the years, but we persisted. ;) It’s now Star lake again. I say, don’t give up, never give in. We are Pittsburgh!

You have to pay to park there to shop. Who needs that BS?

Where can I find a job like that now? lol

The never-ending escalators. Trying to find your mom using them. "Did I go up three sets of escalators or four? Is this women's wear or furniture? Where does that highway go to? Am I right? Am I wrong? MY GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

not gonna lie, when they open that five below i'll definitely be going there often lol

There's goona be a new five and below next to it too.

Ugh!

Not if you go on the bus.

Tbh it's not the worst selection. Prices are about right. 🤷

I’m not complaining…

I remember N. Side G.E., S.S. G.E., Shop N Save @ Bloomfield Bridge, Center Ave G.E… now it’s been a while, so maybe I am forgetting things… but this was what you had from downtown.

Up to Mt. Wu if you wanted all that noise.

Like was there not a grocery at the lower end of Carson, a la 10th? Seems wild now…

Perfume sample battles

Tell boxers I said hi!

Agreed. Walking down that block of Smithfield I couldn't help feel sad looking up at the broken windows I used to look out of as a kid. Even if people have complaints with the Target, it's still a net positive.

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Costco has full time clothes folders.

The article says the owner of the property did not pay the property taxes. The leaseholder (SnS owner)was paying the rent as agreed, which includes the property taxes. It was the landlord who never sent the tax payments in.

I’m guessing this enabled the tenant to get out of the lease. If they really wanted to keep the store open they could have worked something out with the landlord.

I'm avoiding that area of town.

Impulse buyer 😵

Also not if you live downtown as many people do

Absolutely no doubt, but when I'm downtown I always wish those big department stores were still around. I know they aren't viable anymore, but there will always be something special about them to me. Especially around Christmas. But you're completely right, at least it's serving a purpose.

It's funny, I was downtown this weekend and had a very similar thought walking through the Union Trust building. Thinking of all the people who passed through that building at one time. And how now people make memories there in different ways. But eventually whether it be because we'll kill each other off, or that we'll figure out how to leave Earth to colonize other worlds, it's likely all this that we've built will sit empty and then eventually reclaimed until there's virtually no trace they were ever there and all.

I'm a lot of people

It's been wiped clean lately

So I helped open this store, but left in September. Unless they changed it, you can get a voucher at guest services for parking, but you have to actually buy something.

I’m glad to see something there. I worked downtown from 2014-2020 and saw the fall of Macy’s and subsequent emptiness, which both saddened and annoyed me greatly. Downtown is rife with higher end men’s clothing stores and has no equivalent for women’s wear; it was bizarre and off-putting. Not to mention I missed having a place to shop for household merch that wasn’t a tired old Burlington Coat Factory.

I've heard it's really hard to get hired at Costco since they pay well. They probably don't have a lot of turnover as a result.

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Living downtown it’s so fucking nice that I can get decent groceries and vegan shit there, all without having to walk that far to my car to drive 30 minutes anyway.

We live in as far south as you can get and still be in Allegheny, and my mom and I did make it a point to stop at the downtown target. 😂 She has a lot more memories of everything it was before, and wanted to check it out.

Today you would have so much to do that you may possibly won’t be able to finish it and if not, they would Fire you.

I got a pair of big ass headphones from five below in Robinson thinking if the sound sucks, whatever. They sound fucking great. Just as good as a pair that i actually paid good money for. Fuck. Totally down for five

As someone who lives downtown, it’s been really nice to have some grocery options.. they have a lot packed into this little target

What if we kissed under the target clock? 😳

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It's funny how mad people get about having to pay to stick their car somewhere.
 
If parking were free all of downtown would be a parking lot.

Where did I say that I had a problem paying for parking in other spots downtown? Stop assuming things about me.

The Target looks whole lot better than windows with plywood over them.

Downtown's a square mile, you can park anywhere and walk to Target.

 

> Stop assuming things about me

 
I can only judge you by what you post, and I've judged that you are Mad About Parking.

That’s a really convenient idea…I will find a free space a half mile away and carry 3-4 shopping bags that distance after I leave target. Why didn’t I think of that?

No thanks, I will stick with the free parking at their suburban locations if I choose to shop there.

If you were going to do that to begin with, what's the point of coming in here to bitch about parking?
 

Americans lose their fucking minds if they're not allowed to go portal to portal in their cars, and god forbid they have to walk a few blocks. No wonder we look the way we do.

It's for the people who live and work down there.

Now you are assuming that I have lost my mind too? You should really learn how to talk to people. Have a nice day!

That wasn't the Gimbel's building...

I worked at the Lush in Macy's, I'm pretty sure it was Christmas of 2009. I loved that store. A bit young/didn't live in the city at the time to remember Kaufmann's.

Things change, but I will always love that clock. Better to save the historic building and the memories than have a gaping hole or another expensive parking lot that doesn't do much else.

Just my thoughts. Maybe I'm getting old.

What I miss about Kaufmann’s is the bakery on their balcony. Mmm..the custard pies, the multitude of Christmas cookies, Italian and French breads. I also miss their fabrics in their sewing department, some beautiful stuff I could never afford at the time.

I will always carry my fear of elevators because of Kaufmann’s… Was on a packed one when it stopped at a floor, doors didn’t quite open but the car proceeded to drop 6-8”. It caught and went back up, but when the doors opened I never saw so many people empty an elevator that fast.

Im still gonna call the stadium 3 rivers.

I do too, but mostly just The Stadium. Everyone knows what that means.

We are fiercely loyal here. I was talking last night about how Kennywood switched ketchup suppliers to Hunts and I think that lasted less than 2 weeks.

That Kaufman's was a magically "fancy" place for a girl from 84 - until I worked there during the Christmas season in college. Then it filled me with a burning hate. Still miss the Xmas display windows though.

If you're driving, go to a different target. This one is much smaller than the normal ones anyway.

It's a shop for people who are already downtown, not a destination itself.

I Acrisure as fuck don't

I hate this so much

It could be the vape store clock…so…

Absolutely - when I last lived in Pittsburgh I lived Downtown in the Roosevelt building and found myself in that terrible Burlington Coat Factory far too often. Would be nicer to have something with a local connection, but a Target right there would have been a huge upgrade.

i mean…. imma go there and spend all my money on blind bags during my lunch breaks so

Just doesn’t have the same ring to it. 😞

The Target Timepiece.

I met a guy under Kaufmanns clock at Noon in 1991 we spent the next 25 years in a wild romantic relationship. ❤️

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