Posted May 23, 201114 yr PNC to build new 'eco-friendly' headquarters Downtown PNC Financial Services Group will build the world's "most environmentally friendly skyrise" Downtown to serve as its new, $400 million worldwide headquarters. The bank announced plans for the building during a press conference this afternoon at the Fairmont Hotel. The building will be about 40 stories high and will be called the Tower at PNC Plaza. PNC hopes to exceed the highest level of certification offered by the U.S. Green Building Council. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11143/1148621-100.stm#ixzz1NCYKLJTu Full details at http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/pnc/42893/
May 23, 201114 yr In other news, as American Greetings and Eaton pack their bags for the sticks, Pittsburgh will be getting a Crystal Palace in the sky courtesy of Cleveland's blood money!
May 24, 201114 yr Nice. I would kill, or at least severely maim, for a 40-story skyscraper on Public Square or anywhere in downtown Cleveland. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 24, 201114 yr In other news, as American Greetings and Eaton pack their bags for the sticks, Pittsburgh will be getting a Crystal Palace in the sky courtesy of Cleveland's blood money! Our backwards companies. Got to love em!
January 30, 201213 yr I finally bothered to research the site. Generally, it is a block of 2 and 3 story highly-altered commercial buildings. Unfortunately, a cool little corner building is included.
January 31, 201213 yr ^ eh. damn. a perfect anonymous block to build on too. good for the pitts, but will the cle companies take any notice? only the lawyers seem gung ho on downtown.
February 7, 201213 yr Big loss here. Fine grain architecture makes a city. If you don't have it, your city sucks. This is a big step backward IMO. Isn't there some ugly empty 1960s skyscraper they can demolish?
March 8, 201213 yr ^ fine grain architecture? are you mad?!! keep a an absolutely crappy block with only that one maybe formerly classy old corner building? ....or tear it up and build this badboy?: sheesh i think that decision is pretty easy!
March 8, 201213 yr ^Absolutely fantastic...but I agree with above posts...I am sure even in Pittsburgh there is some surface parking lot this great building could go on and still save the urban fabric. But very jealous...this just looks stunning.
March 8, 201213 yr Im all for the preservation of historic buildings, but not everyone can be saved, especially if it is preventing the development of a great project like this. For parking, no historic building should ever die. Besides that corner, the entire block is pretty blah, and the empty storefronts are surely not adding anything to downtown Pittsburgh. Nothing special here.
March 8, 201213 yr yeah sad that the parking lots must be more valuable than the crappy block was. maybe pnc owned that block for awhile and ruined it? i dk the background of the site choice. also, agree that rather cute little corner building is a shame to lose -- too bad it couldn't have been moved or just built around. but..... the tradeoff is easily more that worth it here. no question about it. thats one grand, interesting and slick tower gain for the pitts.
June 30, 201410 yr The Pittsburgh Business times had an article on downtown and had this nice shot of the PNC tower progress...
August 15, 201410 yr Oxford Development will build another tower downtown, though only 20 stories.... http://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/08/15/Oxford-Development-working-to-once-again-leave-its-mark-on-skyline-with-world-class-tower/stories/201408150056
August 17, 201410 yr I think it looks awesome. When talking projects like this, one always has to weigh the pros and cons of tearing down any historic buildings. In this case, I think it's clear the big skyscraper is a win for Downtown Pittsburgh. I felt the same way about Toledo's Downtown arena. A few nice low-rise historic buildings were lost, but the arena was overall a bigger win for downtown, and filled in a half-block-sized surface lot. Plus it's very well-designed while being dense and urban. Historic preservation is extremely important for Rust Belt cities, but economic growth is extremely important too. This skyscraper can do more for downtown Pittsburgh than the ugly low-rises did (though it is sad about that one little building). And it will be urban and beautiful. It's a very solid design that contrasts nicely with the other skyscrapers in Pittsburgh. It's a landmark for sure.
August 20, 201410 yr Oxford's newest "green" skyscraper will also remove a historic building. This time the building spans the entire block and stands six stories. Unless it is in some type of terrible condition not visible from the exterior, it would seem to be an easy residential conversion with historic tax credits.
August 24, 201410 yr Oxford seemed to be really only interested in a new tower, even though they had said they were deciding between a new tower and fixing the old one.
September 10, 201410 yr Penguins, Pittsburgh reach agreement on redeveloping former Civic Arena site September 9, 2014 11:14 PM By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Local political leaders and the Pittsburgh Penguins have cleared the way for the redevelopment of the former Civic Arena site with a wide-ranging deal that creates the largest tax diversion district in the city’s history while giving the team more time to get started. The agreement, finalized early Tuesday after more than a year of negotiations, not only settled thorny issues such as affordable housing and minority participation in the development but also creates a pot of money that is to be used to reinvest in the middle and upper Hill District. “Today is transformative,” Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said. “This is a way to go into the neighborhood and provide those opportunities for people who haven’t had them in the past.” Mayor Bill Peduto said the deal not only would ensure the redevelopment of the arena site in the lower Hill but would help to “mend and heal” the neighborhood, which was separated from Downtown and saw 1,300 buildings leveled in an early 1960s urban renewal plan built around the Civic Arena construction. READ MORE AT: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/09/09/Penguins-Pittsburgh-reach-agreement-on-redeveloping-frormer-Civic-Arena-site/stories/201409090208#ixzz3Cv8xB7Tp "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 22, 201410 yr Epic Development @EpicDevPgh 16m The PNC crane has a new friend! @Millcraftinv @PNCNews @DowntownPitt This is for the Gardens At Market Square (http://www.thegardensatmarketsquare.com/), being constructed by Millcraft. The Gardens project, which will be designed to be LEED certified silver, will be comprised of a 197 room Hilton Garden Inn, approximately 120,000 SF of Office space, approximately 14,000 SF of destination Retail and a 330 car parking garage. This project is scheduled for completion in 2015 for a cost of nearly $100 million. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 22, 201410 yr Pittsburgh's really on a roll. The city has essentially become the "mini Houston" for the Oil and Gas work going on in the Utica and South Marcellus. Just take a look at the companies that have built new buidings in the South Point development.
October 9, 201410 yr More buildings planned for the North Shore: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6932025-74/stabile-north-shore#axzz3FYIZ6t3T
October 9, 201410 yr Well, that looks awful. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 9, 201410 yr He's a parking expert. Trust him... 16 stories down there is horribly out of scale with the surroundings.
October 9, 201410 yr 16 stories hardly out of scale, but the design ain't great. It doesn't help to sit on a parking garage. That said, if building has to sit on a parking garage, I guess sandwiched between 279 and PNC Park is a good place.
October 17, 201410 yr Office-building developers busy in Pittsburgh Alco Parking President Merrill Stabile announced a plan Oct. 8 to build two 11-story office towers and a 1,227-space parking garage in a lot he owns behind PNC Park. The next day, Raleigh, N.C.-based Highwoods Properties unveiled a proposal to erect a six-story glass office building on the Monongahela riverfront at SouthSide Works as part of a four-building deal with the Soffer Organization. And in August, Oxford Development Co. pitched a plan for its Smithfield Street property — a 20-story office high-rise that it’s billing as the most efficient in the city. It’s all about the office market in and near Downtown, local real estate experts say. It’s very tight, with top-of-the-line Class A office space tough to find. Developers are hoping to capitalize on the shortage. http://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/10/17/Developers-flock-to-Downtown-before-space-runs-out/stories/201410170069
November 24, 201410 yr US Steel to build a new HQ at the old arena site. Basically, right next door to their old tower. This will be formally announced today...
November 25, 201410 yr It looks like a DC Whole Foods. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 25, 201410 yr Not bad, but not as iconic as their former headquarters. I wish they had more use of Corten steel.
November 25, 201410 yr Yeah, what a waste of space for a suburban office building... The concept is not really suburban as it is built right up to the street with a ground floor that interacts very well with the street. The height I think is what has people bummed, and leaving them with that sense of "suburban office structure". Add about 10-15 floors to that with similar architecture, and I would take it any day in downtown Cleveland.
November 27, 201410 yr They built it horizontally because they could. The Civic Arena site is huge. I'm glad they plan to build it up to the sidewalk, but I'd prefer it turned on its side. Had the done so, it looks it would be about 22 stories tall but only about five office suites wide! But there are tall buildings downtown that are narrower than that. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 23, 201410 yr This is the same company pursuing the large Breakwater Bluffs apartment complex just east of Battery Park in Cleveland.... Housing plans unveiled for $450 million Strip District development December 18, 2014 11:43 PM By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Buncher Co. is jumping into the burgeoning Strip District housing market in a big way, teaming with a Cleveland developer to build 400 luxury apartments along the Allegheny riverfront. NRP Group LLC has reached a deal to develop the $100 million complex along the river’s edge stretching from 19th to 21st Street as part of Buncher’s $450 million Riverfront Landing residential and office development. The project would go a long way toward fulfilling Buncher’s goal of building more than 750 residential units on 37 acres of prime riverfront property it owns off Smallman Street, much of which is now used for parking. MORE: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/12/18/Cleveland-developer-teams-with-Buncher-for-Strip-District-housing/stories/201412180265 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 18, 201510 yr Proposed 7 story Vitmore apartment project on Baum Blvd A proposed seven-story apartment building in Friendship would feature a distinctive cutout that allows passers-by to look into an interior courtyard with work by local artists, development plans show. The $14 million project includes 100 market-rate apartments and street-level retail space at Baum and South Graham Street. The former Rudy Molnar car repair shop, a vacant lot and a house sit there. “The amenities would be geared toward shared work space rather than a swimming pool and party space,” Moshier said, adding that the rooftop and interior courtyard would offer areas to gather and relax. Moshier said the building will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. He said rents are expected to average between $1,200 and $2,000 a month.
May 18, 201510 yr Thanks bcrice03. And welcome! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 20, 201510 yr Sky Vue, a $50+ million, 389-unit luxury apartment building, will be located between Fifth and Forbes in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood just west of the University of Pittsburgh. The development will also feature a 138-room limited service hotel, street-level retail, 10,000 sq ft of office space and a garage for 363 cars and 131 bikes.
May 20, 201510 yr Thanks bcrice03. And welcome! Thank you! I recently found this thread and wanted to update it to reflect the current apartment boom taking place in Pittsburgh.
May 20, 201510 yr These are courtesy of the Detroit company that is also responsible for the Flats at East Bank in Cleveland: Southside Works City Apartments Features: 264 Luxury Apartments and Penthouses Specialty Market/Café Boutique Hotel Style Lobby Club Room Indoor-Outdoor Pool Zen Garden-Courtyard 24/7 Fitness Center 24/7 Business Center-Conference Room Adjacent Parking Garage Concierge Services Green Building Morrow Park City Apartments
May 20, 201510 yr East Liberty Transit Center/ Eastside III TOD The planned Eastside III development will be centered on a new $52 million transit center and will include more than 360 apartments and 50,000 square feet of retail. The new multi-modal transit center will include a new bicycle parking garage, pedestrian links, and a hub for nearly 1,000 daily bus departures and arrivals. A new connection to Shadyside will be constructed via a pedestrian bridge.
May 20, 201510 yr Thank you for this! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 20, 20159 yr How do we know Pittsburgh is doing something special? Because others want to learn from it.... Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland officials study reinvented East Liberty to kick off summit By Chris Fleisher Thursday, June 18, 2015, 11:21 p.m. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland came to Pittsburgh this week because its officials wanted to explore a city that had reinvented itself. East Liberty was the perfect place to start, they decided. The Pittsburgh neighborhood was a corridor that had been transformed from a center of drugs and violence into a thriving center of high-tech employment and high-end living. Steven Kanner found the change in East Liberty all very exciting. But he had questions, too. “How do you have gentrification in a positive way and continue to keep it affordable for the previous residents?” asked Kanner, who recently graduated from Cleveland State University with a master's degree in urban planning. Kanner joined a bus tour of East Liberty on Thursday morning to kick off the Cleveland Fed's two-day policy summit on housing, human capital and inequality. It was the first time in 12 years that the Cleveland Fed has gone outside of its hometown for the annual event, and it chose Pittsburgh because it offered evidence of how a Rust Belt city can forge an economy around technology, medicine and education. Read more: http://triblive.com/business/headlines/8590977-74/east-liberty-housing#ixzz3ddWoJ2h0 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 14, 20159 yr This was a neat store. Sad to see it die. From the Post-Gazette: Macy's in Downtown Pittsburgh to close July 13, 2015 10:17 AM By Teresa F. Lindeman and Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Macy’s store in Downtown Pittsburgh is going to close, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based department store chain announced this morning. The former flagship of the Kaufmann’s chain has been sold to Philadelphia-based Core Realty, which is planning to turn the 13-story building into apartments and a hotel. Floors 1-4 were expected to be reserved for the department store, but Macy's ended up changing its mind. About 170 employees will be affected, although some may move to positions in other Macy’s stores in the region. Another 30 workers who work in district offices on the 11th floor will move to space at another area store. http://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2015/07/13/Downtown-Macy-s-store-to-close/stories/201507130124
July 14, 20159 yr So add Pittsburgh to the ever expanding list of major American cities without a downtown department store.
July 14, 20159 yr Wow. Very sad. I can't believe that DT Pittsburgh will have gone from four major department stores to zero in such a short time. Lord & Taylor, Lazarus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and now the granddaddy of them all - Kaufmann's (Macy's). :-(
July 15, 20159 yr Hey, if FAO Schwartz in New York City can close, so can the old Kaufmann's flagship in Pittsburgh. It's a new era in retailing, and I just don't understand it anymore. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 15, 20159 yr ^^^This really sucks... I was in Pittsburgh on business a few years ago staying at the old Wm. Penn Hotel and, one afternoon, went over to Macy's, a block away. It seemed a little dead, but the locals were proud to have a downtown dept store, unlike Cleveland of course... but it'll soon be history. I guess we're moving to the point where only New York and Chicago will have major downtown department stores ... and even that's not certain.
July 15, 20159 yr New York will have department stores given the continued population growth and the international affluence living in Manhattan. Barney's is opening a second flagship department store in manhattan and there is another department store near the World Trade Center.
August 7, 20159 yr It's sad, such stores are becoming a novelty. The retail landscape is changing. As someone who still collects music, this is old news, but sad nonetheless.
August 20, 20159 yr Exclusive: 650-apartment complex planned in Lawrenceville But sources familiar with the proposal say Milhaus has been considering a project to build a complex that would total as many as 650 new apartments on the site, along with more than 700 parking spaces, much of it structured, and some complementary retail of 20,000 square feet or more that could include a new build out for the Rite Aid. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/the-next-move/2015/08/650-apartment-complex-planned-lawrenceville.html
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