PITTSBURGH | Development Rundown II

[DBR96A]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

That's clearly a version of the highly publicized and lauded "Philly 100k House" from a few years ago.

Well the Pittsburgh house has horizontal windows, which is reminiscent of all the "remuddled" houses throughout the city that have their new windows installed sideways.

[photoLith]

Gardens hotel from right now.

[DBR96A]

Urbanophile: Did robots save Pittsburgh?

You're all encouraged to leave comments as well.

[Gilamonster]

Someone posted that link some pages ago but for those who missed it, or chose not to read it, I would highly recommend it to them.

Whoops, I jumped the 🞵🞵🞵: that is a link to the comments only. Anyway you want to slice and dice those stats, Pittsburgh looks pretty good to me. Things are only going to get better. This city has incredible momentum right now.

[Evergrey]

Aaron Renn's trying a little too hard to be the contrarian on this topic.

[Evergrey]

http://triblive.com/business/headlines/5411507-74/hotel-hotels-rooms#axzz2w2pfjJj1

Finding a room in Pittsburgh to get easier as hotels boom


Andrew Russell | Tribune-Review
Izzy Rudolph, with McKnight Realty and building manager for the Henry W. Oliver Building looks out over the downtown landscape from the roof of the building, Friday. The company is in the process of converting the top 11 floors of the Oliver building into an Embassy Suites.

By Sam Spatter

Published: Friday, March 14, 2014, 9:06 p.m.
Updated 14 hours ago


Pittsburgh's choked hotel market is getting some room to breathe.

More than a dozen hotels are either under construction or will open this year in the city — a $168 million investment by developers who are attracted by the market's near 70 percent occupancy rate. The modest boom will add more than 800 rooms to the 4,570 available in Downtown hotels.

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The four hotels opening Downtown are doing it at a good time. Davis said 2015 is shaping up to be the best year ever for conventions, with room bookings 54,000 more than normal. Davis wouldn't say how many total rooms have been booked for 2015 but he said they include events by the Fraternal Order of Police with 19,000 rooms and the Barbershop Harmony Society with 15,000 rooms.

Developers invested $167.9 million in new or renovated hotels last year, up from $76.9 million in 2012, according to Breaking Ground magazine, published by Jeff Burd of Tall Timber Group in Ross. Some of the money is coming from out-of-state developers. They are attracted by the market's stability and relatively high occupancy rate, says a report by HVS Global Hospitality Services Inc.

“I don't believe out-of-state developers were significant owners of Pittsburgh hotels prior to the last several years,” said Keith McGraw of Sierra Associates in Sewickley, a partner with Mark LaPort in Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co. in Raleigh.

Concord, which has developed 15 hotels here, is building a Hyatt House in Bloomfield, a Hilton Homewood Suites in the Strip District with co-developer Walnut Capital, and a Hampton Inn & Suites next to its Courtyard by Marriott at Settlers Ridge in Robinson.

By the end of 2013, Western Pennsylvania had 24,355 hotel rooms, a 10.2 percent increase since the pre-recession inventory at the end of 2007, according to a count by Smith Travel Resources of Hendersonville, Tenn., which tracks hotel operations.

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[Austinlee]

^I can't wait to hear 15,000 street corners with barbershop quartets. Could get quite noisy!

Barbershop Harmony Society with 15,000 rooms.

[Austinlee]

Love this shot, photolith.

[Muckk]

Originally Posted by DBR96A

Well the Pittsburgh house has horizontal windows, which is reminiscent of all the "remuddled" houses throughout the city that have their new windows installed sideways.

I must admit the elongated window discussion makes me think of the Esherick House, which is of course in the Philadelphia area.

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[Johnland]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

Love this shot, photolith.

Agreed. It is absolutely a great shot Photolith. The framing of the modern highrises between the century old buildings, the mosaic of earth tones and
building shapes and window patterns, and the red signage repeated - Reed Smith at top and CVS at streetlevel. And, it captures a brief moment in Pittsburgh's urban history - the new building will eventually cause this scene to vanish in time. Hang on to this one.

[Evergrey]

Randomly came across some new infill in Bloomfield yesterday called something like "Mintwood Townhomes"... 5 tall rowhouses packed on a small lot along Fisk in between Mintwood and Cabinet. Impressive density on a tight lot similar to Croghan's Edge... though the architecture of Mintwood is more faux-historic. Was quite surpised to see it, as the development eluded my radar.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

Randomly came across some new infill in Bloomfield yesterday called something like "Mintwood Townhomes"... 5 tall rowhouses packed on a small lot along Fisk in between Mintwood and Cabinet. Impressive density on a tight lot similar to Croghan's Edge... though the architecture of Mintwood is more faux-historic. Was quite surpised to see it, as the development eluded my radar.

I remember watching those go up. IIRC they have garages on the first floor, right?

The "no man's land" between Lawrenceville and Bloomfield there remains an overall affordable area, more so than the rest of Lawrenceville, or increasingly Bloomfield proper. Part of that is being slightly more removed from active business districts I guess (Penn/Main has stuff, but can't compare to Butler, Liberty, or even Penn Avenue in Garfield). Part of it is undoubtedly because most of the houses are small and not particularly distinguished. Still, I expect the area will take off in the next 5-10 years. It's too close to downtown to continue to be forgotten.

[hyperion1110]

Originally Posted by DBR96A

Urbanophile: Did robots save Pittsburgh?

You're all encouraged to leave comments as well.

With all that nonsense about flooding being bad in Pittsburgh, I couldn't help but comment!

[Austinlee]

Originally Posted by eschaton

I remember watching those go up. IIRC they have garages on the first floor, right?

The "no man's land" between Lawrenceville and Bloomfield there remains an overall affordable area, more so than the rest of Lawrenceville, or increasingly Bloomfield proper. Part of that is being slightly more removed from active business districts I guess (Penn/Main has stuff, but can't compare to Butler, Liberty, or even Penn Avenue in Garfield). Part of it is undoubtedly because most of the houses are small and not particularly distinguished. Still, I expect the area will take off in the next 5-10 years. It's too close to downtown to continue to be forgotten.

So true, on all accounts!

[Austinlee]

Originally Posted by Evergrey

Randomly came across some new infill in Bloomfield yesterday called something like "Mintwood Townhomes"... 5 tall rowhouses packed on a small lot along Fisk in between Mintwood and Cabinet. Impressive density on a tight lot similar to Croghan's Edge... though the architecture of Mintwood is more faux-historic. Was quite surpised to see it, as the development eluded my radar.

These?

[Evergrey]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

These?

No. Smallman's End is on Smallman.

[Private Dick]

Smallman's End is a highly unfortunate name for... well, just about anything.

[George Woods]

^

As the urban youth say, L.O.L !!

[JLuginbill]

I'm curious if anyone has heard any development on the East Liberty Odeon building?

I heard that the lot had been bought up by Walnut Capital and that Molly Blasier has decided to move the project elsewhere.

Can someone confirm this?

[George Woods]

^

If so, damn. I was really looking forward to that. Hopefully, it would still be in that vicinity. I think that sort of development should be close to the busway.