Next Pittsburgh has information on Phase 2 of Arsenal 201, gleaned from a community meeting last Thursday.
This includes a link to the presentation given at that meeting to Lawrenceville United by Milhaus. A summary.
1. Phase 2 includes 343 apartments - more than the first phase's 243. This will include 35 affordable units, which is interesting, because I had thought considering the original master plan was passed before the inclusionary zoning overlay they might have escaped this requirement.
2. Milhaus is asking for a 445-space parking garage, along with space for 200 bikes. The initially seems excessive, it's worth remembering some of the space being redeveloped is currently being used as surface parking for the existing building, meaning it's really meant as a garage for all phases of the development.
3. This phase will include a historic renovation of the last remaining building of merit on the site -
the old officers quarters of Allegheny Arsenal. Three units of housing will be in this structure, which will apparently have surface parking rather than garage access.
4. As part of the phase, the developer plans to extend their private stub of Foster Street further, and build out a temporary surface lot of 75 spaces on the "Phase 3" land - presumably to replace those spaces which will be removed during construction existing tenants use. This temporary surface pad is going before the ZBA for approval this week.
5. Closer to the river, the developer plans an extension of Willow Street open to the public. It will not continue under the 40th Street Bridge at this time due to
a DPW garage being in the way, but it could link up the road grid in the future. On the river side of this new extension, there will be a public dog walk and open space.
6. The design is meh and generic - even compared to the Phase 1 buildings, which are pretty unimpressive. Honestly the way the renderings are set up I'm just having a very hard time even conceptualizing the building. The overall shape of the building is a "double doughnut" with one cavity around a central courtyard, and another mostly wrapped around the new parking garage. A small wing pulls up to 39th street. There's a cavity left along 39th, which seems to a degree designed to avoid the Officer's building and some nearby remaining portions of the original stone wall.
7. There's not much land left over for Phase 3 at all. This in part seems to be because they've decided to make Phase 2 larger and deeper. However, my recollection was that originally they planned to demolish all of the warehouse structure, only leaving the "Rite Aid" building due to a long-term lease they couldn't get out of. It looks like they wish to keep at least one bay of it intact for the foreseeable future however. This is unfortunate, because fixing that side is even more key now that the Tryp hotel is across the street, but maybe they're waiting out Rite Aid now, hoping to develop that entire section up to the Butler Street corner at once.
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It does. Good call.
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