FORE Systems Founding Principal and tech entrepreneur Francois Bitz is pursuing a plan to build an 18-story condo development in the Strip District, an early stage project expected to total 70 to 80 units in a building that could reach more than 200 feet in height.
Bitz owns a 28,000-square-foot open plot on Penn Avenue between 26th and 27th streets that neighbors Savoy Restaurant, a stretch of the neighborhood now largely smaller commercial buildings
Will be the tallest structure in Pittsburgh's strip district, as well as the largest condominium project in the city!
I bet when we see renders for this, it will be similar in design to the gardens (tower 260) downtown. I would assume they will be playing up the view of downtown from this location, and would want to have some green/open space half way up, like Skyvue.
I bet when we see renders for this, it will be similar in design to the gardens (tower 260) downtown.
I highly doubt it. The gardens is too fat of a structure for condos. My prediction is that it will end up being a narrower building to allow every condo to have at least a part of a downtown/river view.
The Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment has denied tech entrepreneur Francois Bitz’s proposal to build a condo tower in the Strip District, rejecting a request for a special exception for height and floor area ratio as well as a variance for an interior sideyard.
The board made the ruling March 10, three months after Bitz and his Spring Way Center LLC proposed the project in a hearing before the ZBA.
Working with Lawrenceville-based Desmone Architects, Bitz proposed a 224-foot-tall, 18-story development on a 28,000-square-foot parcel he owns on Penn Avenue between 26th and 27th streets in the Strip District, a project that sought approval for a building that would reach well above the 60 to 70 foot height restriction for the site.
The $80 million development was expected to include 70 condos with one and a half parking spaces per unit.
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