View Single Post
  #2881  
Old Posted Oct 17, 2019, 8:19 PM
eschaton eschaton is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 5,181
New Planning Commission presentation up for 8/22. There are really only two new items for next week:

1. A historic restoration of 439 Wood Street - a rather nice four-story historic commercial building which now appears to be vacant on the upper stories. Some of the terra-cotta facade is pretty degraded, so it will be a lot of work - but make a big impact as well.

2. Oxford is proposing a rezoning of the former UPMC Mercy South Side Outpatient Center from EMI to UI (Urban Industrial). Medical uses have ceased on site, with UPMC using the complex solely for about 200 IT employees. The presentation suggests UPMC is looking to consolidate IT services onto the site, and UI zoning would give them a lot more flexibility to develop the blocks as straight-up office space. It does not appear at this time UPMC is looking to sell any of their lots, or to do anything more than renovate the existing buildings, but there would be the potential for substantive office buildings (or apartments) in the future.

In addition, Next Pittsburgh has a short article online now about Walnut Capital's Innovation Research Tower in Oakland, which should get final approval from the Planning Commission next week.
Reply With Quote