Ariba Center

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View of Ariba Center (photo taken when it was known as FreeMarkets Center) from the top of the nearby Regional Enterprise Tower

Ariba Center is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States. The tower is named for the Ariba Corporation.

Ariba Center, originally known as One Oliver Plaza (and briefly as FreeMarkets Center), was completed in 1968. It has 39 floors, and rises 511 feet or 156 meters above Downtown Pittsburgh. The building sits at the intersection of Liberty Avenue, Sixth Avenue and Wood Street. Facing the Dominion Tower across the street, it shares a city block with One PNC Plaza and Two PNC Plaza; this "superblock" was created by the closing of Oliver Avenue in the late 1960's.

In 2007, Pittsburgh law firm K&L Gates entered in to an agreement to become the largest tenant in the building by 2010. When K&L Gates moves its headquarters to the building, it will be known as the K&L Gates building and its signage will be changed according.

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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.