PITTSBURGH | Development Rundown III

[Austinlee]

Welcome to the Pittsburgh development thread! Major new projects will be added as they are announced. Thank you for viewing.


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Photo credit: Chris Litherland Photography http://chrislitherlandphotography.zenfolio.com/


$1.1 billion Pittsburgh International Airport modernization project

Watch this 2.5 minute video for the full explanation of the changes to be made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyXfUXBVg9Y












Lumiere - Downtown
Mixed use building by Millcraft Investments - 70 condos, 30,000 sq ft retail space, 582 car garage, rooftop deck








9th & Penn proposal - Mixed use downtown development by The Davis Companies - $175 million mixed-use development would include up to 185 high-end condominiums, 30,000 square feet of street-level retail, and a new 935-space garage.






Union Trust Building - Downtown - $100 million renovation by The Davis Companies (Completed)




Eighth & Penn - Downtown - Trek Development - $46 million reuse of two vacant 19th century eight-story office buildings as well as the construction of an 11-story addition. Under Construction.










Kaufmann Department Store redevelopment - Downtown - Core Realty - Retail, hospitality (160 room Even Hotel), multifamily and office space.




Former Frank & Seder Department Store downtown - The Icon on Smithfield - Stark Enterprises - State of the art retail and office rehab.



Finished product will look something along the lines of this:




Mon Wharf Switchback - Bicycle/pedestrian ramp connecting Mon Wharf to the Smithfield Street Bridge.







Fairfield Inn - Downtown




Distrikt Hotel downtown (Former Salvation Army)



Rooftop view






632-634 Fort Duquesne Boulevard - Mark Cuban/Walnut Capital
$30 million project, which will feature 76 apartments on floors six through nine and offices, possibly in the form of co-working space, on floors two through five.




Point Park Playhouse - Performing arts venue for Point State University




Tower Two Sixty - Completed




Tower at PNC Plaza - Completed



Bjarke Ingels Group mixed use proposal for Lower Hill District site; Formerly Civic Arena - $500+ million; 1,200 residences and over 1 million square feet of retail space and office space, reconnecting the wider Hill District with the downtown core by reinstating the city's road grid, overlaid with a series of pedestrian footpaths, public plazas and green spaces.










Highway cap over crosstown boulevard (579) between downtown and the Hill District. $26 million. Funding in place with a $19 million federal grant.




Station Square residential development - Forest City Realty - $60 million development will feature 319 apartments in two five-story buildings, one with a six-story wing connected by a pedestrian bridge. A 340-space parking garage will be built underneath the complex.






The Terminal Building - Southside - Mixed use development - 800,000 sq ft








Southside Works - Highwood properties office building - 107,000 sq ft




Riviera - South Oakland - New office building in the Pittsburgh Technology Center (PTC)



Hotel Indigo - South Oakland - PTC




Carnegie Science Center addition - Northshore - $34.5 million






Rivers Casino hotel - Northshore - $35 million




Northshore office building, SAP Ariba software to be anchor tenant - Northshore - $23 million




Garden Theater block mixed use building - Central Northside, North Avenue - Trek Development - 72 apartments




Garden Theater block - Alphabet City renovation - Complete - Apartments on upper floors, Restaurant Casellula/City of Asylum bookstore featuring books of writers living in asylum.






Workingman's Saving Bank (Designed by Daniel Burnham in 1901) redevelopment - Central Northside, East Ohio Street - October Development - $20 million Rehab of old bank bldg into banquet space on 1st floor and brewpub with skyline view on roof; 6 story hotel next door; 3 story apartment building.






AC Hotel - Strip District




Uber Advanced Technologies Research Lab (Autonomous vehicles) - Strip District













Uber autonomous car test track - Hazelwood




3 Crossings - Mixed use development on 16 acres - $130 million - 4 office buildings (375,000 sq ft) Tenants include Apple; Argo AI; Bosch; Burns White law firm; Rycon Construction; 300 unit apartment building;












Cochran Audi dealership - Strip District




Riverfront Landing - Strip District - 1st phase of $450 million mixed use development - over 750 units of housing, plus retail and office space, on 37 acres of prime Allegheny riverfront






Produce Terminal - Strip District - $63 million proposal to rehab this 1,400+ ft long former produce distribution terminal into retail and office space.










1600 Smallman Street - Strip District - Mixed use, 1st floor retail upper floors office






Waterfront Place townhomes - Strip District - 46 townhomes Between Produce Terminal & Allegheny River




21st & Smallman St (Former Ayoob warehouse) - Strip District - 420,000-square-feet development that would include 380,000 square feet of office space, 40,000 square feet of retail, and a 1,000-space parking garage.




District 15 - Strip District - Office building




Arsenal Terminal development - Lawrenceville - 12.75 acres - 625 apartments and townhouses and retail.






Tech Mill 41 - Lawrenceville - Fort Willow Developers & Walnut Capital - The $12 million office building next to The Foundry at 41st.





Foundry at 41st - Complete - $35 million, 182 apartments




Tech Forge on 47th - Lawrenceville - $20 million - office space for robotics companies




Tryp Hotel by Wyndham rehab - Lawrenceville - 107 rooms




Tons of rehabbing of historic homes and new construction infill all over Lawrenceville. An example of renovation of old townhouses:



Example of modern infill in the neighborhood:




Penn Mathilda apartment building - Garfield - Completed




Penn Highland Building - East Liberty - 15,000 sq ft retail, 78 apartments




Bakery Square 2.0 - East Liberty - Office; Apartment buildings; Townhouses. 215,000 sq ft office building, primariy leased by Google and connected to the Nabisco Factory which is also leased by Google.














East Liberty Centre - Office with 1st floor retail




Penn Plaza mixed use development - East Liberty - Details are not finalized but the plan originally was to include 200 apartments, 12,000 sq ft office in 1st phase, a Whole Foods and 580 parking spaces








Coda on Centre - East Liberty - 172 apartments




Ollie at Baumhaus - Friendship - 127 apartments built by Vitmore.






Forward Square - Squirrel Hill - $50 million - 125 apartments and 3 retail spaces




2700 Murray - Squirrel Hill - 39 condos







Squirrel Hill Gateway Lofts - 33 units of affordable housing



UPMC - Announced in November of 2017 that they will invest $2 billion to build 3 new hospitals in the city. These are preliminary drawings released - Final designs subject to change.

UPMC Heart & Transplant Hospital in Oakland - 15 story, 620 beds



UPMC Vision and Rehabilitation Hospital, 300,000 sq ft - Uptown



UPMC Hillman Cancer Hospital at UPMC Shadyside, 240,000 sq ft patient tower and 160,000 sq ft outpatient center.




Skyvue apartment building - Oakland - 389 apartments - Completed





Residence Inn - Oakland - Next to Skyvue on the right side is this 144 bed hotel.






3407 Forbes Avenue - Oakland - 137 apartments - $25 million






The Oaklander hotel - Oakland - 167 room hotel




The Bridge on Forbes - Oakland - 197 Apartments




The Empire - Oakland - $106 million - 723 apartments, 10,000 sq ft retail






Carnegie Mellon University construction projects - Oakland

Cohon University Center










CMU - Ansys building - Made possible with a donation from Ansys




CMU - TCS building - Made possible with a $35 million donation from Tata Consultancy Services










CMU - Tepper Quad - 315,000 sq ft - Named for the donations of Pittsburgh born and raised and educated David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management.








ALMONO site - Hazelwood - 1 billion+ massive mixed use development, 5 million sq ft





Mill 19 - Hazelwood - The renovation on the ALMONO site of an existing 190,000 sq ft mill building into a unique light industrial/R&D space.












City's Edge - Uptown - Mixed use, 106 apartments; 15,000 sq ft retail; 439 space garage (It's right next to PPG Paints Arena)






Flats on Fifth - Uptown - 74 apartments - Complete




Royal Dutch Shell new ethane cracker plant (taking advantage of the Marcellus shale in the Pittsburgh area) - 35 miles Northwest along I-376W - Potter Twp, Beaver County - $6 billion plant - 6,000 temporary construction jobs, to peak in summer of 2019 after that 600 permanent jobs.

[Urbanthusiat]

Wonderful. Thank you Austinlee! Here’s to hoping this gets filled with many new projects and good urbanism!

[Minivan Werner]

I wasn't aware of that Walnut Capital / Mark Cuban development, and I couldn't even picture the building in my head and had to look at it on street view. It's seen some better days but looks like a nice rehab in a prominent location. Some old school faux-neon signage on the steel lattice at the top would look cool.

[Wally G]

Great job Austinlee on the new thread!

[Bonnern19]

Thank you for putting this together. I love seeing all the development in my city, even though I now live in Kansas City. I have a few questions.

1) I'm most excited about the Strip District renovation and the Almono/Igloo sites. Do you know when these projects are going to break ground?

2) Are they waiting on the Almono and Igloo sites to see if Amazon chooses Pittsburgh for its second headquarters? I think Pittsburgh has a legitimate shot at it and it'd be worth pausing to give them an opportunity to use on of those sites. I think they'd fit perfectly with the Almono site and that Mill 19 building.

Again, thank you for putting all of this together, and I hope yins all had a great Thanksgiving.

[BrianTH]

Awesome! Let's go!

[evz922]

Love the new thread! Great job! The only other projects that I can think of are the Distrikt Fifteen office building in the strip, the Penn Rose apartment conversion in the strip, maybe a couple of smaller condo conversions/additions in the strip, the new large apartment building going in on the Southside (Pittsburgh Flats?), and the power plant in Uptown.

[AaronPGH]

Thanks for this, Austin! Much needed.

[acenturi]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

Welcome to the Pittsburgh development thread! Major new projects will be added as they are announced. Thank you for viewing...........................

Anyone who would spend as much time/effort in creating this masterpiece, must be a key member of the "Get HQ2" committee.

[deja vu]

What a great looking rundown. So much has happened, and so much is yet to come...good call on including some of Photolith's skyline shots at the start.

[kosi3]

Any news on the Tryp hotel project in Lawrenceville?

[wpipkins2]

A huge red construction crane is up and running at the Squirrel Hills site. The Forward and Murray site is confusing. I am not sure which project the red crane is for. It is visible as you enter and exit the Squirrel Hill Tunnels

[summersm343]

Great job Austinlee! Looks great!

[Steel City Scotty]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

A huge red construction crane is up and running at the Squirrel Hills site. The Forward and Murray site is confusing. I am not sure which project the red crane is for. It is visible as you enter and exit the Squirrel Hill Tunnels

I may be mistaken, but I believe only the Action Housing project (Squirrel Hill Gateway Lofts) on the former Poli site is underway at this time.

The neighboring Forward Square project was just announced this summer.

[Bricktrimble]

Great start (continuation) to this site. So excited to see all of this happening in the 'burgh.

[BrianTH]

Nice roundup of what is coming soon to Uptown and how small local businesses are preparing to capitalize:

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201711250007

There are a couple notes about how rough/dangerous it was in the 1990s compared to now. That is a general national trend (urban crime peaked in the early 1990s and has come way down since then), and I think it is absolutely critical to the resurgence of neighborhoods like this.

[themaguffin]

Uptown has so much potential. It's a direct line to downtown and Oakland.
Also, the mix of older buildings with potential + empty lots....

[PITairport]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

Bjarke Ingels Group mixed use proposal for Lower Hill District site; Formerly Civic Arena - $500+ million; 1,200 residences and over 1 million square feet of retail space and office space, reconnecting the wider Hill District with the downtown core by reinstating the city's road grid, overlaid with a series of pedestrian footpaths, public plazas and green spaces.

Since this is only a concept it might be beneficial to add the other concept for this site as well from AE7. I like this one much better not only because of the 70 story tower but because the architecture of the buildings in BIG's proposal makes the development appear to focus in on itself instead of the surrounding area.
















Also this proposal for Oakland:




Plus this one:



http://ae7.com/project/confidential-project-2/

[Evergrey]

I have been waiting for this to happen for so long!

Air Canada announces year-round service from Pittsburgh to Montreal starting Spring 2018!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...660734743.html

[BrianTH]

Reservation of condos in Lumiere, the tower that is going on top of the new garage at the former Saks site, have apparently gone very well, and they are planning to start construction in April, with completion in late 2019:

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201711290066