EQT Plaza

EQT Plaza
General information
Type	office building
Location	625 Liberty Avenue
Coordinates	40°26′33″N 80°00′04″W / 40.4425°N 80.00111°W / 40.4425; -80.00111Coordinates: 40°26′33″N 80°00′04″W / 40.4425°N 80.00111°W / 40.4425; -80.00111
Construction started	January 9, 1984
Completed	1987
Height
Roof	430 ft (131 m)
Top floor	32
Technical details
Floor count	32
Floor area	16,000 sf (smaller floor plates), 23,000 sf (larger floor plates)
Elevator count	14
Design and construction
Owner	Liberty Avenue Holdings, LLC
Management	Pearson Realty Services

EQT Plaza, formerly known as the CNG Tower and later the Dominion Tower, is a major and distinctive skyscraper in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The structure was built for Consolidated Natural Gas, a regional energy company. In 1999, CNG was purchased by Dominion Energy, which moved out of the building in 2007. During the summer of 2009, EQT Corporation moved its corporate headquarters and several business units from the 6-story building EQT had built and moved into in 2005, just across the Allegheny River in the North Shore neighborhood of the city.[1] Equitable Gas Company, the natural gas utility owned by EQT Corporation, remains on 2 floors of the former headquarters building on the North Shore.

EQT Plaza was completed in 1987 and it has 32 floors. It rises 430 feet (131 meters) above Downtown Pittsburgh. It was influenced heavily by the Art Deco architecture found in other Pittsburgh skyscrapers, like the Gulf Tower, Koppers Tower and Grant Building.[2]

The building was owned between 2005 and 2010 by the Blackstone Group, a real estate firm well known for their management of high risk assets. After buying the structure following the bankruptcy of former owners, they successfully increased the building's occupancy rate from 66% to 97%.[3] In 2010, Blackstone sold the building to Pearson Realty Services.

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  EQT Plaza (left) with its trademark arch can be seen rising above Midtown Towers (center) and the Clark Building along Liberty Avenue.

References

• Toker, Franklin (2007). Buildings of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places ; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2650-5. 
• Updates based on several articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette daily newspaper, discussing EQT Corporation's tenancy and renaming of the building (2007-2008).

Preceded by One PNC Plaza	Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Height 430 feet (131 m) 32 floors	Succeeded by Two PNC Plaza
Preceded by PPG Place	Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Year of Completion 1987	Succeeded by Fifth Avenue Place