Some data things:
County-level GDP is now being published. No surprise, Allegheny County dominates the Pittsburgh Metro/SWPA, with more or less decent growth rates. Washington County has passed Westmoreland for a distant second thanks to higher recent growth rates:
https://ucsur.pitt.edu/perspectives....20181228505725
Not a lot of detail in the underlying data, but Allegheny was about 80% private service, 12% private goods production, 8% government. Washington in comparison was 64% service, 30% goods, 6% government. I note service includes more business/industrial things like research, transportation, and such, not just conventional professional and retail services.
Meanwhile, looks like strong demand growth has caught up with the hotel construction boom in Pittsburgh (which itself has slowed a bit):
http://hotelnewsnow.com/Articles/291...s-supply-slows
Demand growth was particularly strong in the CBD, which is good news for the new projects still in the pipeline. The article also touches on various hotels in development in the East End including The Oaklander and the Tryp hotel going into the Washington Education Center building (pictured in development in an above photo review).
As also explained in the hotel article, all this fits together--the diverse and growing business mix helps create strong demand growth for hotels.