Downtown workforce grows 20% in decade

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
By Elwin Green, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The number of people working Downtown has grown by more than 20
percent in the past decade, according to a new study by the Pittsburgh
Downtown Partnership.

The results of the organization's Downtown Worker Profile Study show
that in 2006, 137,000 people worked Downtown, a 22.7 percent increase
since 1996, when the total was 111,557. The PDP definition of Downtown
includes five census tracts -- the Golden Triangle, the North Shore,
the South Shore, Uptown and the Strip.

Service businesses, including entertainment venues, and financial
businesses each employed about one-third of the Downtown workforce,
the study said.