Pittsburgh’s 2024 Soul Food Festival might be impeded by an order from property management for PPG Plaza.Festival organizer William Marshall says Highwoods Properties asked him to find another location, citing altercations, arrests and noise during the festival.People attending the festival purchase food from food trucks at Market Square and use PPG Plaza to sit, eat and listen to music on Third Avenue.The main stage for the festival is located on Boulevard of the Allies.However, Marshall believes the order from Highwoods Properties is racially motivated, saying this year’s festival drew 20,000, mostly people of color. “Discriminatory, since we know that other festivals are down here, same location, and they don’t have no problem with those festivals being here,” Marshall said.Denying access to the plaza as a common area presents a logistical challenge for the festival, literally forcing visitors to walk two blocks around the plaza to access Boulevard of the Allies for the main stage and eliminating a large seating area.Marshall says that same area is accessible to visitors to other festivals.”I was very offended in learning they didn’t want us to be on the plaza when I know three weeks before we had our event, they had Picklesburgh down here. Picklesburgh had over 200,000 people, but they haven’t told Picklesburgh they don’t want them on PPG Plaza,” he said.