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Originally Posted by photoLith
What the heck is this? This thing just popped out of nowhere in SoHo. I drive down there all the time and never noticed it until today.
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Originally Posted by joenicholas9
^ That's the new steam plant
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"NRG Uptown District Energy Center" to be formal.
It's a steam/chilled water/emergency electricity plant... and has significantly more impact on the potential size and tenants of future development on the former Civic Arena site than the City/Penguins have.
It is very purposefully being "overbuilt" to not only provide heating/cooling to UPMC Mercy and its proposed major developments, but also to the entire future fooprint of the Arena site. It will actually help to create demand for that real estate. UPMC would not be building the new hospital without it.
I know the focus is always on the City's and Penguins bs wrangling over developing the property and how it should look, but infrastructure construction projects like this are what gives things the kick in the ass to get shit done.