Larrimor's, the designer clothing store that has outfitted Pittsburghers since 1939, is going out of business after 87 years. The third-generation family-owned retailer will hold a liquidation sale starting Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m. at its current home at One PNC Plaza, 249 Fifth Ave., with discounts ranging from 20% to 75% on merchandise and fixtures.
The announcement came Thursday, according to CBS News Pittsburgh, which reported that the business will close after 87 years in Downtown Pittsburgh. The store was founded by Harry Slesinger and Larry Morris in 1939 inside the Union Trust Building, per the same report, before relocating to One PNC Plaza in 2010. As WPXI first reported, Larrimor's has long been known as a family-owned designer clothing destination in the heart of downtown.
For decades, Larrimor's built its reputation on tailored menswear and women's designer pieces. According to the store's own description on Larrimor's website, the shop offered women's contemporary and designer clothing, handbags and accessories, alongside men's made-to-measure suits, custom dress shirts, tuxedos, formalwear and designer casual wear.
What Shoppers Can Expect at the Final Sale
Details of the closing sale were laid out by Table Magazine, which reported that discounts run from 20% to 75% across the store's remaining inventory. The outlet noted the store's final day will come no later than the end of December, or whenever the merchandise sells out, whichever happens first.
That timeline leaves a roughly two-month window for longtime customers to shop the remaining stock of tailored suits, formalwear and designer accessories before the Fifth Avenue storefront goes dark for good.
A Downtown Retail Landscape Under Strain
Larrimor's closure lands amid a broader retail retreat in Downtown Pittsburgh. A Q2 2026 report from Downtown Pittsburgh put the area's retail vacancy rate at 18.6%, with 271,000 square feet of vacant retail space spread across 67 tracked storefronts. The same report found that traditional mid-tier apparel retailers are struggling without a strong residential or tourism base propping up foot traffic, even as luxury apparel has held up comparatively better.
Downtown Pittsburgh has weathered retail upheaval before. Gimbels Pittsburgh, once a downtown department store fixture, closed in 1986 amid a corporate sell-off, roughly $2 million in losses, a labor dispute and competition from suburban malls, according to Steel City History. Four decades later, Larrimor's departure adds another name to the list of longtime downtown anchors that have shut their doors.
With the liquidation sale set to begin next Wednesday and no confirmed closing date beyond the end of the year, Larrimor's final chapter will play out through the holiday shopping season, marking the end of an 87-year run on Pittsburgh's Fifth Avenue.
