$238 million is a pretty good sized tower though. Sounds promising if they go that route. I'll pretend i didn't see that clipart drawing.

No plaza at least!

But otherwise that looks incredibly generic. Hopefully a hypothetical anchor tenant would ask for something a little more distinctive.

No. This is the final design. Except they will be scaling back to 10 floors.

That's really what it looks like.

Yup.

The post-gazette didn't post any lame ass drawing. The trib must've pulled that directly out of their ass.

Anyway, the tower is contingent on a major tenant. Let's hope they find one. That's a great location for such a tall tower.

Who are the going to get as a street level retail tenant? Stuckey's?

If my math is right, that is about $308/sqft. Isn't that a little low?

To answer my own question, I guess not:

http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/...f-office-buil/

I might have been thinking about prices including land acquisition.

No, looks like they just got a hold of the actual clipart instead of what channel 4 did... take pictures of the presentation and crop it. :haha:

Slideshow

Here are a couple of the "better" images from the slideshow.

http://www.wtae.com/image/view/-/141...venue3-JPG.png

http://www.wtae.com/image/view/-/141...venue2-JPG.png

http://www.wtae.com/image/view/-/141...venue4-JPG.png

I am switching my vote towards the renovation of that building. BEAUTIFUL. The tower? Puke-worthy.

I like it better seeing the western half. Still pretty ugly, though.

So we don't really know much more than we did yesterday, except that the rendering shows us a design that we're not too crazy about.
http://www.wtae.com/image/view/-/141...venue3-JPG.png

Reminds me a little of the Four Seasons tower in Miami, but not nearly as tall or attractive.
http://www.ownrealty.com/entry_image...e_227_31_1.jpg

Sorry, double post

hopefully burns and scalo beats them to whatever big tenant(s) they know are out there.

Call me crazy, nuts, a moron, a jerk, whatever, but that design is growing on me. Granted, at first I thought it wasn't that much to look at, but after looking at the slideshow courtesy of WTAE, it is more of a modern twist on some of the 1960s era tall box architectural designs IMO. The rennovated version of the existing itsn't bad either. I do like the classical architecture.

I don't think you are crazy. Contemplating it, I really think it is just the box on the southwest corner, upper half, that is bothering me. Make that a bit more interesting and I think I could like this design.

Not only did I notice that, but if this turns out like One Oxford Centre (and they get a consortium of anchors and not a name-seeking anchor) it will retain the:

350 Fifth Avenue title.

Guess what comes up for 350 Fifth Avenue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350_Fifth_Avenue

Official press release:
http://www.oxforddevelopment.com/wp-...se-Sheets2.pdf

On their website, if you scroll to the right 3 slides, they show the building integrated with the skyline:
http://www.oxforddevelopment.com/

I think the problem is just that the drawing is extremely low detail since they probably aren't going to pay for a team of architects to design something unless they get their anchor tenant.

That would really be a super block though with two 30+ story skyscrapers going up at once...

Yeah it's growing on me a little. Detail would definitely help. If the glass facade and streetscape is similar to PNC Three it could be half decent.