South Side Works - Dinner and a Movie

Thursday night we decided to have a night out in the South Side Works area. We had dinner at Tusca which features Mediterranean Tapas and took in a movie at the South Side Works Cinema.

SouthSide Works is an open-air retail, office, entertainment, and residential complex (often referred to as a lifestyle center) located on the South Side of the city of Pittsburgh and just across the Monongahela River from the Pittsburgh Technology Center and the University of Pittsburgh.

The complex sits on the site of the famous "Southside Works" Jones and Laughlin Steel Company plant that helped win two world wars and make the United States a great industrial power. With the advent of cheaper foreign steel starting in the late 1970s and accelerating in the 1980s the massive mill and factory complex was idled in the mid-1980s.