PITTSBURGH | Development Rundown II - Page 450

Jonboy1983 · #**8981** Posted **Jul 16, 2014, 10:16 PM**

While we are on the subject of the P-G and its lowest common denominator of readers...

Dare I post this story about the latest in the AWC Saga?

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2...son-Center-on-Oct-6/stories/201407160160

I invite you to read my reply at the bottom. There is one person who cannot POSSIBLY call him/herself a Pittsburgher!! SERIOUSLY!!!

Private D · #**8982** Posted **Jul 16, 2014, 11:07 PM**

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Dude, not right after lunch! I need a bucket.

Sorry about that... it is extremely nauseating... even if it was proposed for somewhere up in Cranberry.

Austinlee · #**8983** Posted **Jul 16, 2014, 11:19 PM**

Those comments are fairly tame. If you want BAD, read the comments for any wpxi.com or kdka.com articles. Nowhere in the universe besides Mos Eisley has as much vile scum & villainy.

Muckk · #**8984** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 1:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkyPittsburgh

Where is the steel going up?

Swinderman Rd & Route 19.

TBone7281 · #**8985** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 5:37 PM**

Took a quick walk around the area around the office before lunch.

2500 Smallman (2500 Smallman)

Looks completely gutted, the roof is totally removed from the portion on Smallman.

I walked down to the Pitt-Ohio Building to see if they had started any work there yet, but the trucking company is still going strong. (Pitt-Ohio is scheduled to move out "this summer" at some point.)

Coming back down Railroad St., I took this w/ completed and totally full Lot 24 on the left.

Lastly, current view of downtown from the top of the Cork Factory parking garage.

Apologize for the quality, specifically of downtown, didn't have my camera with me, just used my phone.

BrianTH · #**8986** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 6:26 PM**

Thanks for the pics!

The Strip is going to be so awesome if they can just keep doing good re-use projects while infilling with contextually-appropriate new buildings of decent scale. Obviously applying those principles to the Produce Terminal and Buncher properties is key, but hopefully even that area eventually blends in to an overall coherent, dense, and continuous urban fabric.

SkyPittsburgh · #**8987** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 8:03 PM**

New Planning Commission is up:

1. Bakery Square 2.0 Housing building 2 is slated for construction. The color scheme is even worse than that of the previous building. However, it seems they are putting a parking garage underneath this one, so that will relive some of the stress on other parking structures.
2. CMU is expanding with a new "Cohon University Center." It appears that they are removing a parking lot for this, so there's some good news.
3. East Liberty Transit Center "Building B" and "Building C" are slated for construction. Building "A" which is closest to Highland has already been approved and is slightly under construction.

Everything else is old.

http://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/schedule51/presentation-51-597.pdf

Evergrey · #**8988** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkyPittsburgh

1. Bakery Square 2.0 Housing building 2 is slated for construction. The color scheme is even worse than that of the previous building.

Why? Why do they insist on such nauseating color schemes!?

SkyPittsburgh · #**8989** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 8:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

Why? Why do they insist on such nauseating color schemes!?

I hope the planning commission will make them:
1. Change the color to something better.
2. Change it to the color of Bakery Square Living 1.

Also, the office buildings and respective landscaping should help cover the monstrosity of the colors.

GeneW · #**8990** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 9:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

Why? Why do they insist on such nauseating color schemes!?

I don't mind the colors (and I look at them every day).

BrianTH · #**8991** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 9:09 PM**

I also don't particularly mind the Bakery Living colors. I don't particularly love them either, but I see a lot of that sort of thing in our kids' clothes these days, so I gather they are popular.

Anyway, I like the reconfiguration of the CMU project to bring it a little closer to the street. And of course the ELTC/Eastside III project is always fun--some of those drawings were new to me, and I look forward to getting hopelessly lost in the parking decks.

Austinlee · #**8992** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeneW

I don't mind the colors (and I look at them every day).

Are you a Googler?

And I don't think the new colors are nearly as bad as the original drawings. I was literally scared of seeing the purple and orange color scheme in person.

Evergrey · #**8993** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 11:06 PM**

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DSC_6542 by photolitherland, on Flickr
Newly completed apartments in Lville on Butler.

These turned out surprisingly weird. I initially thought they would be attractive brick-facade buildings... but the brick element is a minority. I was really shocked and nauseated the first time I saw the seemingly random rainbow color scheme.

Found5dollar · #**8994** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 11:09 PM**

Bakery Square drives me crazy. From an urbanity point of view it is amazing. Dense, connected, well placed. But from an architecture point fo view they are some of the ugliest buildings put up in a long time. The old factory building is beautiful but i mean the seams on the corrugated parts of Bakery Living 1 are already visible, the facade of the lowrise portion of Bakery Square is buckling, and the colors are going to be dated in exactly 5 years. It seems they put all the money into interior finished and skimped on the exterior. That makes sense for apartments and condos, but cheap cladding only leads to one thing... eventual leaks and repairs.

GeneW · #**8995** Posted **Jul 17, 2014, 11:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austinlee

Are you a Googler?

And I don't think the new colors are nearly as bad as the original drawings. I was literally scared of seeing the purple and orange color scheme in person.

No, I'm a UPMCer.

Private D · #**8996** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 12:16 AM**

"BIG HEART PET BRANDS" replacing the Del Monte lettering on the north shore building...

They couldn't have come up with any better name or lettering than BIG HEART PET BRANDS to put in giant letters on the two most visible sides of the building?

Austinlee · #**8997** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Private Dick

"BIG HEART PET BRANDS" replacing the Del Monte lettering on the north shore building...

They couldn't have come up with any better name or lettering than BIG HEART PET BRANDS to put in giant letters on the two most visible sides of the building?

Your heart is three sizes too small mr grinch.

BrianTH · #**8998** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 11:07 AM**

Just wait until they transfer the building to the "WE BUY GOLD" division.

Private D · #**8999** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 12:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austinlee

Your heart is three sizes too small mr grinch.

I'm a foul one.

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Originally Posted by BrianTH

Just wait until they transfer the building to the "WE BUY GOLD" division.

CA$H MONEY

eschaton · #**9000** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

These turned out surprisingly weird. I initially thought they would be attractive brick-facade buildings... but the brick element is a minority. I was really shocked and nauseated the first time I saw the seemingly random rainbow color scheme.

Yeah, that building came out surprisingly nasty. One of my bus friends who is an architect was complaining they did an odd mix of expensive things (like having an articulated facade) and cheap things (using inexpensive cladding). My wife believes they originally had a much higher design and the construction manager "value engineered" the cool stuff out of it.

As for the colors, they look pretty awful, but it could have been worse. Look at the Children's Hospital!