Page "Downtown Pittsburgh" Paragraph 50

University of Pittsburgh economist Christopher Briem notes that the level of employment in the city has remained largely constant for the past 50 years: " time series of jobs located in the City proper are about as stable as any economic metric in the region, or in any other Northeastern US urban core, over many decades.

In 1958, were 294, 000 jobs located in the city proper … Those numbers are virtually identical today which tells me there is a certain limit to how many jobs can efficiently be located in what are some relatively ( very ) constrained areas.

" These numbers reflect employment in the city as a whole, not just the central business district ; but the central business district has the highest density of employment of any Pittsburgh neighborhood.