[HamiltonJay]

Oh and a few more tidbits about the Steel Tower...

Its the tallest building between NY and Chicago

When Mellon (prior to being bought out/merging with BNY) went to build their new HQ downtown they intended it to be taller than the steel tower, but the city would not approve it.... The Steel Tower will always be the tallest building in da burgh... at least for a long time to come.

[pghbjugop]

“Oh and a few more tidbits about the Steel Tower...

Its the tallest building between NY and Chicago”

which is why when the plane flying west turned around over Cleveland on 9/11 and made a B-line to Pittsburgh, they thought it was going for the Steel Tower and we all high-tailed it out of the Burg. That plane was the one that went down in Shanksville.

[Vigilanteman]

Interesting stuff. The US Steel sign and logo is, of course, what is visible from ground level. The UPMC logo is on the top and what you see from a distance or flying low over the Burgh. The shorter Mellon Tower is shown in the background here:

There was a time when the Mellon name in Pittsburgh was like the Kennedy name in Boston. Whatever they wanted; they got.