PITTSBURGH | Development Rundown III
 

Welcome to the Pittsburgh development thread! Major new projects will be added as they are announced. Thank you for viewing.

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$1.1 billion Pittsburgh International Airport modernization project

Watch this 2.5 minute video for the full explanation of the changes to be made.

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Lumiere - Downtown
Mixed use building by Millcraft Investments - 70 condos, 30,000 sq ft retail space, 582 car garage, rooftop deck

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9th & Penn proposal - Mixed use downtown development by The Davis Companies - $175 million mixed-use development would include up to 185 high-end condominiums, 30,000 square feet of street-level retail, and a new 935-space garage.

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Union Trust Building - Downtown - $100 million renovation by The Davis Companies (Completed)

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Eighth & Penn - Downtown - Trek Development - $46 million reuse of two vacant 19th century eight-story office buildings as well as the construction of an 11-story addition. Under Construction.

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Kaufmann Department Store redevelopment - Downtown - Core Realty - Retail, hospitality (160 room Even Hotel), multifamily and office space.

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Former Frank & Seder Department Store downtown - The Icon on Smithfield - Stark Enterprises - State of the art retail and office rehab.

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Finished product will look something along the lines of this:

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Mon Wharf Switchback - Bicycle/pedestrian ramp connecting Mon Wharf to the Smithfield Street Bridge.

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Fairfield Inn - Downtown

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Distrikt Hotel downtown (Former Salvation Army)

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632-634 Fort Duquesne Boulevard - Mark Cuban/Walnut Capital
$30 million project, which will feature 76 apartments on floors six through nine and offices, possibly in the form of co-working space, on floors two through five.

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Point Park Playhouse - Performing arts venue for Point State University

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Tower Two Sixty - Completed

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Tower at PNC Plaza - Completed
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Bjarke Ingels Group mixed use proposal for Lower Hill District site; Formerly Civic Arena - $500+ million; 1,200 residences and over 1 million square feet of retail space and office space, reconnecting the wider Hill District with the downtown core by reinstating the city's road grid, overlaid with a series of pedestrian footpaths, public plazas and green spaces.

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Highway cap over crosstown boulevard (579) between downtown and the Hill District. $26 million. Funding in place with a $19 million federal grant.

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Station Square residential development - Forest City Realty - $60 million development will feature 319 apartments in two five-story buildings, one with a six-story wing connected by a pedestrian bridge. A 340-space parking garage will be built underneath the complex.

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The Terminal Building - Southside - Mixed use development - 800,000 sq ft

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Southside Works - Highwood properties office building - 107,000 sq ft

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Riviera - South Oakland - New office building in the Pittsburgh Technology Center (PTC)

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Hotel Indigo - South Oakland - PTC

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Carnegie Science Center addition - Northshore - $34.5 million

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Rivers Casino hotel - Northshore - $35 million

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Northshore office building, SAP Ariba software to be anchor tenant - Northshore - $23 million

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Garden Theater block mixed use building - Central Northside, North Avenue - Trek Development - 72 apartments

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Garden Theater block - Alphabet City renovation - Complete - Apartments on upper floors, Restaurant Casellula/City of Asylum bookstore featuring books of writers living in asylum.

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Workingman's Saving Bank (Designed by Daniel Burnham in 1901) redevelopment - Central Northside, East Ohio Street - October Development - $20 million Rehab of old bank bldg into banquet space on 1st floor and brewpub with skyline view on roof; 6 story hotel next door; 3 story apartment building.

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AC Hotel - Strip District

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Uber Advanced Technologies Research Lab (Autonomous vehicles) - Strip District

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Uber autonomous car test track - Hazelwood

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3 Crossings - Mixed use development on 16 acres - $130 million - 4 office buildings (375,000 sq ft) Tenants include Apple; Argo AI; Bosch; Burns White law firm; Rycon Construction; 300 unit apartment building;

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Cochran Audi dealership - Strip District

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Riverfront Landing - Strip District - 1st phase of $450 million mixed use development - over 750 units of housing, plus retail and office space, on 37 acres of prime Allegheny riverfront

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Produce Terminal - Strip District - $63 million proposal to rehab this 1,400+ ft long former produce distribution terminal into retail and office space.

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1600 Smallman Street - Strip District - Mixed use, 1st floor retail upper floors office

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Waterfront Place townhomes - Strip District - 46 townhomes Between Produce Terminal & Allegheny River

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21st & Smallman St (Former Ayoob warehouse) - Strip District - 420,000-square-feet development that would include 380,000 square feet of office space, 40,000 square feet of retail, and a 1,000-space parking garage.

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District 15 - Strip District - Office building

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Arsenal Terminal development - Lawrenceville - 12.75 acres - 625 apartments and townhouses and retail.

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Tech Mill 41 - Lawrenceville - Fort Willow Developers & Walnut Capital - The $12 million office building next to The Foundry at 41st.

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Foundry at 41st - Complete - $35 million, 182 apartments

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Tech Forge on 47th - Lawrenceville - $20 million - office space for robotics companies

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Tryp Hotel by Wyndham rehab - Lawrenceville - 107 rooms

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Tons of rehabbing of historic homes and new construction infill all over Lawrenceville. An example of renovation of old townhouses:

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Penn Mathilda apartment building - Garfield - Completed

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Penn Highland Building - East Liberty - 15,000 sq ft retail, 78 apartments

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Bakery Square 2.0 - East Liberty - Office; Apartment buildings; Townhouses. 215,000 sq ft office building, primariy leased by Google and connected to the Nabisco Factory which is also leased by Google.

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East Liberty Centre - Office with 1st floor retail

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Penn Plaza mixed use development - East Liberty - Details are not finalized but the plan originally was to include 200 apartments, 12,000 sq ft office in 1st phase, a Whole Foods and 580 parking spaces

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Coda on Centre - East Liberty - 172 apartments

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Ollie at Baumhaus - Friendship - 127 apartments built by Vitmore.

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Forward Square - Squirrel Hill - $50 million - 125 apartments and 3 retail spaces

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2700 Murray - Squirrel Hill - 39 condos

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Squirrel Hill Gateway Lofts - 33 units of affordable housing

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UPMC - Announced in November of 2017 that they will invest $2 billion to build 3 new hospitals in the city. These are preliminary drawings released - Final designs subject to change.

UPMC Heart & Transplant Hospital in Oakland - 15 story, 620 beds

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UPMC Vision and Rehabilitation Hospital, 300,000 sq ft - Uptown

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UPMC Hillman Cancer Hospital at UPMC Shadyside, 240,000 sq ft patient tower and 160,000 sq ft outpatient center.

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Skyvue apartment building - Oakland - 389 apartments - Completed

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Residence Inn - Oakland - Next to Skyvue on the right side is this 144 bed hotel.

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3407 Forbes Avenue - Oakland - 137 apartments - $25 million

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The Oaklander hotel - Oakland - 167 room hotel

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The Bridge on Forbes - Oakland - 197 Apartments

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The Empire - Oakland - $106 million - 723 apartments, 10,000 sq ft retail

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Carnegie Mellon University construction projects - Oakland

Cohon University Center

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CMU - Ansys building - Made possible with a donation from Ansys

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CMU - TCS building - Made possible with a $35 million donation from Tata Consultancy Services

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CMU - Tepper Quad - 315,000 sq ft - Named for the donations of Pittsburgh born and raised and educated David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management.

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ALMONO site - Hazelwood - 1 billion+ massive mixed use development, 5 million sq ft

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Mill 19 - Hazelwood - The renovation on the ALMONO site of an existing 190,000 sq ft mill building into a unique light industrial/R&D space.

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City's Edge - Uptown - Mixed use, 106 apartments; 15,000 sq ft retail; 439 space garage (It's right next to PPG Paints Arena)

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Flats on Fifth - Uptown - 74 apartments - Complete

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Royal Dutch Shell new ethane cracker plant (taking advantage of the Marcellus shale in the Pittsburgh area) - 35 miles Northwest along I-376W - Potter Twp, Beaver County - $6 billion plant - 6,000 temporary construction jobs, to peak in summer of 2019 after that 600 permanent jobs.

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Wonderful. Thank you Austinlee! Here’s to hoping this gets filled with many new projects and good urbanism!

I wasn't aware of that Walnut Capital / Mark Cuban development, and I couldn't even picture the building in my head and had to look at it on street view. It's seen some better days but looks like a nice rehab in a prominent location. Some old school faux-neon signage on the steel lattice at the top would look cool.

Great job Austinlee on the new thread!

Thank you for putting this together. I love seeing all the development in my city, even though I now live in Kansas City. I have a few questions.

1) I'm most excited about the Strip District renovation and the Almono/Igloo sites. Do you know when these projects are going to break ground?

2) Are they waiting on the Almono and Igloo sites to see if Amazon chooses Pittsburgh for its second headquarters? I think Pittsburgh has a legitimate shot at it and it'd be worth pausing to give them an opportunity to use on of those sites. I think they'd fit perfectly with the Almono site and that Mill 19 building.

Again, thank you for putting all of this together, and I hope yins all had a great Thanksgiving.

Awesome! Let's go!

Love the new thread! Great job! The only other projects that I can think of are the Distrikt Fifteen office building in the strip, the Penn Rose apartment conversion in the strip, maybe a couple of smaller condo conversions/additions in the strip, the new large apartment building going in on the Southside (Pittsburgh Flats?), and the power plant in Uptown.

Thanks for this, Austin! Much needed.

Anyone who would spend as much time/effort in creating this masterpiece, must be a key member of the "Get HQ2" committee.:D:D

What a great looking rundown. So much has happened, and so much is yet to come...good call on including some of Photolith's skyline shots at the start.

Any news on the Tryp hotel project in Lawrenceville?

A huge red construction crane is up and running at the Squirrel Hills site. The Forward and Murray site is confusing. I am not sure which project the red crane is for. It is visible as you enter and exit the Squirrel Hill Tunnels

Great job Austinlee! Looks great!

I may be mistaken, but I believe only the Action Housing project (Squirrel Hill Gateway Lofts) on the former Poli site is underway at this time.

The neighboring Forward Square project was just announced this summer.

Great start (continuation) to this site. So excited to see all of this happening in the 'burgh.

Nice roundup of what is coming soon to Uptown and how small local businesses are preparing to capitalize:

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201711250007

There are a couple notes about how rough/dangerous it was in the 1990s compared to now. That is a general national trend (urban crime peaked in the early 1990s and has come way down since then), and I think it is absolutely critical to the resurgence of neighborhoods like this.

Uptown has so much potential. It's a direct line to downtown and Oakland.
Also, the mix of older buildings with potential + empty lots....

Since this is only a concept it might be beneficial to add the other concept for this site as well from AE7. I like this one much better not only because of the 70 story tower but because the architecture of the buildings in BIG's proposal makes the development appear to focus in on itself instead of the surrounding area.


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Also this proposal for Oakland:
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Plus this one:
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I have been waiting for this to happen for so long!

Air Canada announces year-round service from Pittsburgh to Montreal starting Spring 2018!

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Reservation of condos in Lumiere, the tower that is going on top of the new garage at the former Saks site, have apparently gone very well, and they are planning to start construction in April, with completion in late 2019:

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201711290066

Do we know anything more about this proposal? I think I like it even better than the BIG one. I wonder what the chances are on a scale of 1-10 that this will get built?

This one really looks interesting. I'm guessing that it's on the lot next to the Cardello building. Is this a preliminary rendering?

That's pretty clearly the "Chateau Landing" project which was first announced back in May 2016. It's supposed to be a Millcraft project, cost roughly $750 million, and include 850 units of housing.

I'm not sure if they ever secured the arrangement with the URA they needed to move the project forward. There has been no news at all about it this year.

Pittsburgh should have a signature Ferris Wheel, if only for historical purposes.

The city has posted two more zoning board hearings schedules - the last two for the year - one for 11/30, and one for 12/14. As is usually the case, these are mostly small projects. Some of interest - all from the 11/30 agenda - the 12/14 has nothing of note.

1. The Matthews International building reskin (which went before the Planning Commission earlier in the year) is now going before the zoning board.

2. A new three-story community home on Grove Street in the Middle Hill. It's a nice location, pretty close to existing amenities on Centre Avenue like the YMCA, Carnegie Library, and Zone 2 police station.

3. Two infill townhouses on Hatfield Street in Central Lawrenceville. I used to about a five minute walk from this location - it's shocking how rapidly every vacant lot is now being filled in.

4. A new seven-story mixed-use building with attached parking in the Strip District. It will be constructed here, at the corner of Smallman and 21st, immediately adjacent to St. Stanislaus Church. It's a Desmone project, so I'm pessimistic about how the design will turn out. No information about unit count, but IIRC there were no residential plans for this site - just ground-floor retail and office space above, so that would make sense.

The final planning commission presentation of the year should go up this Friday (or maybe late Thursday). We're done with HRC presentations until February, so we'll be entering the slow season when it comes to official reports.

So. Much. Scrolling. Looking good, thanks Austin! :cheers:

It would be really cool if it had similar dimensions and look to the original (obviously with modern technology and other necessary adjustments to make it a viable attraction).

We've talked about possible locations before. I like the idea of it being next to the Fort Pitt tunnel/bridge, but Chateau has some appeal as well, mainly because that is such a nice angle, but also because it does sort of fit in with the entertainment complex vibe we are developing along that stretch.

All I know is it is included in this document:
https://issuu.com/ae-7/docs/ae7_all_domestic_legal

There were some notes on it in this September 19 article about possible Amazon HQ sites:

https://www.post-gazette.com/busines...s/201709190053


Apparently the new name is Esplanade, which led me to this article as well (from the next day):

http://www.thenorthsidechronicle.com...lorful-future/

Just for additional background, here is a prior post with a linked P-G article about that project:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19921

A 7-story, 104 ft tall building there sounds good to me. Wanting it to be 550 ft long implies they want to fill the whole parcel between 21st and 23rd.

It's about time Chateau begins to realize its potential!

Hopefully in time to save the prison, which could become a very cool tourist attraction.

By the way, I am pretty sure it filled in as multiple different prisons in the Netflix show Mindhunter, which was interesting in general.

Yeah, I knew it had been discussed before. I just wish there was a rendering floating out there on the web. I have no confidence in Desmone.

For the second time this month, another airline has announced a new non stop destination from PIT. This time, it's Air Canada and non stop service to Montreal. Service begins in May, will be daily, and will only take about an hour and a half to get to both cities. I am a little impressed PIT was able to snag this, didn't think this area would have enough demand for service to the city, but PIT is paying out much less involved with this flight compared to the Seattle and European ones recently announced so the airline must feel this will do well without much marketing. I am excited though as Montreal is one of my favorite places to visit and this will make it much easier to get there.


http://www.post-gazette.com/news/tra...s/201711290114

There are probably enough demand from leisure and Bombardier related passengers to justify a 50 passenger plane.

Admittedly, I don't know how the economics of how airlines pick routes, but one would think that PIT could achieve more direct routes with airlines operating smaller planes. Despite the Southwest approach, not every route has to be flown on a 737 to be feasible does it? Maybe I'm just longing for the days when USAir was flying little Embraer jets from PIT to every airport east of the Mississippi.

Routes have certain fixed costs related to things like gates, marketing, and so on. And there is also a quirk to fuel economics based on the fact takeoffs and landings consume so much fuel, and lower-level cruising takes more fuel than higher-level cruising, all of which is why short hops are not as fuel efficient as you might otherwise think.

By the way, love Montreal. Great get.

Eighth & Penn
 

I noticed this morning on my way out of downtown that the first story of steel has gone up this week at the 8th & Penn site. I didn't have a chance to grab a picture, but it'll be fun to see the above-grade work pick up at this development.

I walk down Penn Avenue quite often and should be able to share some photos of the 8th and Penn construction soon.

Speaking of steel going up, Riverlife has shared these photos from yesterday of the Mon Wharf Switchback project.

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I was wrong in what I posted the other day - there is a December HRC presentation, which is now online. I swear I didn't even see a row for it the other day when I checked. Nine items on the agenda, as usual, most are small residential projects on the North Side. New items of interest:

1. Rehab of 926 Western Avenue. I'm mostly noting this because it's also clear Allegheny West is going to get a coffeeshop (a second location of the Shadyside Adda Coffee & Tea House). The building is already in semi-decent shape, and the changes are not dramatic. There will be a rear deck with some seating, which will be nice in summer months however.

2. More details involving the 606 Cedar Avenue rehab, which has been already before the zoning board. This project involves restoring an eight-unit apartment building, adding an elevator, changing the front entrance to be at grade, repair/replacement of front balconies, new rear windows, and improvements to a rear courtyard. It's a small project, but will be a nice improvement to the area.

And, as soon as I posted the HRC update, the last planning commission presentation of the year also went live. Four new items on the angenda for next week:

1. Historic nomination for Roslyn Place - that wooden street in Shadyside. I was a bit confused, because the street was up for nomination earlier in the year, but it appears the property owners are now moving to have the homes themselves protected. I can see why the owners are doing this - it's one of the few streets in Shadyside where all the homes were built around the same time period/to the same scale, and every home has escaped remuddling. Compared to the average historic nomination, the documentation is a bit skimpy however.

2. 604 Liberty Avenue is getting a renovation. As a bit of backstory, PNC originally intended to demolish this building, along with the two to its right, for better access into the loading dock of their tower which now includes the Fairmont. However, the guy who owned the convenience store building refused to sell at any price, which left them with two buildings they didn't need. 604 Liberty has been vacant for 15+ years. Currently it is only zoned for ground-floor retail, with the upper stories as storage, but the plan is to have all three stories as retail - a likely necessity considering the very small floor plates. A total reskin of the facade to a light-colored tile with large windows is also planned, which in no way resembles the facade prior to remuddling, but will be a step up.

3. The first concrete plans for the I-579 cap have been unveiled. The project's total cost is estimated at $26.4 million, and will establish new public green space between Bigelow Boulevard, Centre Avenue, Washington place, and Chatham Street. In addition, a crescent of current open space to the north just across Bigelow Boulevard will be improved. IMHO the design is a bit too hardscaped, with too many pavers and not enough trees, but I am guessing there is a limitation to how much planting can take place on a highway cap.

4. Buncher is formally proposing the planned Waterfront Place Townhomes - 46 units of attached housing to be placed on a thin strip of land between the back side of the Terminal Building and the larger-scale buildings (including Riverfront Landing - the apartment building already under construction) closer to the river. This project is being done by my wife's firm, and I had no clue it was them (I sometimes see renderings of projects not yet publicly discussed, but she's asked me not to blab, so I don't). I think the design is a nice mix of new traditional and contemporary (it tries to call to existing form without trying to be fake historic buildings). I still feel like it's a bit too small scale for the site, however, and the lack of any private green space at all is just bad design for a townhouse (the back garages front on a driveway, and then a tiny sliver of grass and trees is the only thing which blocks it from the Produce Terminal lot. Some sort of skinny apartment building would have been preferable, even if the structured parking would have been problematic.

Speaking of Riverfront Landing...

11/30/2017

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Not exactly earth shattering news, but I also noticed that the Iron Workers Union on Liberty is adding something to the back of their building. (The side against 23rd that used to be parking.)

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And speaking of steel going up...

Pittsburgh Audi (11/30/2017)

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AND at Oxford's Three Crossings as well. (Riverfront West - 11/30/2017)

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Lastly, they dug up the "sidewalk" on Smallman at the old Spaghetti Warehouse building as part of the reno. Thank god. Hopefully, they'll be making this stretch more cohesive for pedestrians.

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The project does seem to be squeezed into the site. And does it bother anyone that the sides and back are siding? This will be the façade facing the Produce Terminal and although its just the Produce Terminal's parking lot, it is another public face.

Yeah, the overall design is pretty nice, but it is a shame about the siding.

So the deck-park looks fine to me, but I am very curious about the parcel left out. I thought that had been incorporated in previous iterations.

http://www.post-gazette.com/business...s/201712010105

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Whoa, that would be yuge news for downtown if that happens. I would go there all the time, downtown is way closer than going through all the disastrous traffic to get to East Liberty from Oakland.

To be fair, the sides which face the future public rights of way are brick clad on the first and second stories.

IIRC, no concrete plans for the Produce Terminal have ever been presented, so we don't really know if that rear parking lot is going to be maintained in its current form.

My educated guess is this zone is going to be where the smaller-scale building which was shown in earlier renderings ends up being located (although it has switched corners). That area is at grade and won't really be part of the deck, so there's no reason it can't be constructed on.

Unfortunately, looking at the site rendering, it's clear whatever is built there will effectively have its "back" turned to the deck park, with the perimeter bounded by trees, and in one area a wall. It's not the biggest loss in the world, but it will arguably hurt the design of the ultimate structure.

Either the former Kaufmann's or the former Frank & Seder seem like pretty solid options for a small-format Target, probably on two levels.