10/10 ZBA is up. Items of interest.
1. Seven new rowhouses on the northern fringe of the Central Northside (
here).
2. Construction of two new single-family homes in Mount Washington (
here). House on the right will apparently be torn down and replaced.
3. A new three-story mixed use building on Ellsworth in Shadyside.
The location is here. They've been trying to replace that old house formerly used as a dentist office for quite some time - I think this is at least the third time it's gone before the ZBA. I'm sure a combination of the restrictive LNC zoning and small parcel size is making it difficult to redevelop.
There's also a handful of sign permits, modifications of existing buildings, and the like.
In other news, there is apparently
a new brewery coming to Garfield in the spring. And the Post Gazette has
a very long article regarding the failures of historic preservation in the city of Pittsburgh over the last few decades - focusing primarily how the city itself has demolished many historic structures, in large part because the existing process for gaining historic buildings and packaging them for resale before they deteriorate is so cumbersome that the current system leaves few alternatives.