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Falbo, Desmone craft plans for Lawrenceville apartment building

Pittsburgh Business Times by Tim Schooley, Reporter
Date: Friday, January 6, 2012, 6:00am EST



A local development team is planning to insert a 46-unit, 89,000-square-foot apartment building into an empty gap in the urban fabric near Doughboy Square in Lawrenceville.

Commercial real estate broker Ral Merchant, developer Ralph Falbo and architect Chip Desmone, operating as Doughboy Apartments LLC, submitted their plan to the city’s zoning board of adjustment this week for a mixed-use apartment building on a 19,000-square-foot parcel on Butler Street.

Desmone, principal of Desmone & Associates Architects, whose offices are right across Butler Street from the proposed site, said the project seeks to build upon the initial suggestion of Rob Stephany, executive ...