October 27th planning commission presentation online. Three new items for next week:
1.
Institutional Master Plan for Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. This is a much more ambitious ten-year plan than I thought the seminary would have. They plan to demolish two old buildings, build a new structure and essentially double an existing one with a new wing, and reconfigure parking, green space, and internal access roads through the school. The most interesting aspect to most though will be a bit more details related to the planned ceding of land for affordable housing on the southern fringe of the campus. They plan for a six-story, 130,000 apartment with ground-floor commercial fronting on East Liberty Boulevard, and 4-5 townhouses on Sheridan Avenue. Looks like the initial plan is to step down the building height as it approaches Sheridan, and to include ground-floor integral parking on that side of the building. The plan seems unfinished on the north side of campus, but they've been in a holding pattern there because they can't buy out the last homeowner on the block.
2.
A plan to demolish the "Family House" complex on McKee Place in Oakland. The offices were at one point two grand homes which have been combined and remuddled, along with a surface parking lot in the rear. Interestingly, this is immediately adjacent to the new planned apartment building which will front on the Marathon Gas site on Forbes, though it's probably too late for that plan to change to expand to fill this parcel as well. This parcel is actually right at the fringe of the Oakland Public Realm, meaning something high-density could be built here fairly easily.
3.
A plan to convert the Allegheny Building downtown into an apartment building. Technically they're asking for the transfer of 87 units from 201 Stanwix. The ultimate unit count for the building appears to be 190 - mostly one-bedroom units. Not much to say here really, except that these sort of early 20th century elevator buildings are much more suited to residential (much better than 201 Stanwix).