The Strip District and Lawrenceville follow the Allegheny River northeast of downtown Pittsburgh. The Strip District has Penn Avenue food shops and riverfront apartment conversions. Lower Lawrenceville centers on Doughboy Square and Arsenal Park; Central Lawrenceville adds the Bay 41 market and cemetery entrance. Upper Lawrenceville reaches the 56th Street supermarket and craft campus.
Housing: lofts, apartment communities and older houses
In the Strip, The Cork Factory at 2349 Railroad Street occupies the former Armstrong Cork Factory. Its one-, two- and three-bedroom loft plans include exposed brick and tall factory windows. In Lower Lawrenceville, Arsenal 201 at 147 39th Street lists eco-suites, studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom homes.
At 4107 Willow Street, Central Lawrenceville’s Foundry at 41st offers studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments, with in-unit laundry, an elevator and bicycle storage. Among these examples, Arsenal 201 and the Foundry list studios; the Cork Factory’s published range starts at one bedroom.
Older homes are another part of the Lawrenceville search. The residential design guide describes rowhouses built to the front property line with a shared side wall, alongside hillside houses set back behind front yards and porches. Those are different entrance and outdoor-space arrangements from the large apartment examples above.
Food shopping: daytime shops, a Tuesday market and 56th Street
Wholey’s Market at 1711 Penn Avenue sells groceries, produce, seafood and meat. It closes at 5 p.m., opening at 8 a.m. Monday–Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. For a conventional working day, that is more useful as a planned daytime shop than a late return-home errand.
The Lawrenceville Farmers Market at Bay 41, 115 41st Street, runs Tuesdays, 3–7 p.m., from May 19 through November 24 in 2026. It adds produce, meat, bread and pantry vendors on one afternoon each week. Farther up Butler Street, ALDI at 450 56th Street is an everyday grocery destination in Upper Lawrenceville. Shopping from a home near 57th Street therefore need not mean going down to the Strip.
Commuting: downtown and Oakland need different routes
PRT’s Route 91 runs between downtown, the Strip and the Butler Street corridor, reaching 57th Street. In the Strip, its timetable reference stops use Liberty Avenue at 21st Street toward downtown and Liberty Avenue opposite 17th Street outbound; the Terminal’s Smallman Street frontage is a separate walk from the bus corridor.
Route 93 turns away from Butler at 51st Street and runs via Children’s Hospital and Bloomfield to Oakland, continuing to Squirrel Hill and Hazelwood. An Upper Lawrenceville home near 57th Street has a different approach to that Oakland route from a home around 39th Street. The June 28, 2026 timetable separates weekday, Saturday and Sunday service, with fewer Route 93 departures on weekends.
PRT lists a $2.75 three-hour pass, with free transfers within three hours using a card or mobile ticket. A $7 day pass covers the whole service day. Fares were checked October 18, 2026.
Local outings: playground, cemetery grounds or craft gallery
In Lower Lawrenceville, Arsenal Park’s completed first improvement phase includes a playground and pavilion with restrooms, with an accessible path from 40th and Davison streets. Bernard Dog Run is a separate destination on the riverfront trail beneath the 40th Street Bridge, with large- and small-dog areas.
Central Lawrenceville’s Allegheny Cemetery Butler gate at 4734 Butler Street opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 7 p.m. April–August or 5 p.m. September–March. An autumn after-work grounds visit has a shorter window than a summer one. The gatehouse photograph below dates from August 2009.
Photo: Eli Pousson / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; display layouts may crop the image.
Upper Lawrenceville’s Contemporary Craft has free exhibitions and a store at 5645 Butler Street. Its fiber and wood studios are at 5688 Butler Street, with the accessible entrance on 57th Street. Regular opening extends to 7 p.m. on Thursday; Sunday is closed. In the Strip, the Heinz History Center provides an indoor history outing at 1212 Smallman Street.
Parking: visiting the Terminal is a different arrangement from renting
The Terminal’s visitor information lists its public parking lot and additional public use of the 1600 Smallman Garage after 4 p.m. on weekdays and on weekends. Those are useful arrival options for a first look at the Strip.
At the Foundry at 41st, the operator explicitly requires a signed parking addendum for its surface lot or garage. Use of those resident spaces is governed by the property’s parking agreement, separately from the public lot used for a first visit.
Local contacts and development plans
Lawrenceville Together was formed by the January 2026 merger of Lawrenceville Corporation and Lawrenceville United. Its organization page identifies community outreach and development contacts, even while the older organization names remain on some program pages.
The development directory supplies project sheets and planning-stage labels by location. For example, the 37th Street Apartments entry is labeled “Approved at Zoning.” That is a proposal-stage record, not evidence of apartments ready to rent.