Hmm, more details which have me a bit confused:
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201412180265
Quote:
The Buncher Co. is jumping into the burgeoning Strip District housing market in a big way, teaming with a Cleveland developer to build 400 luxury apartments along the Allegheny riverfront. NRP Group LLC has reached a deal to develop the $100 million complex along the river’s edge stretching from 19th to 21st Street as part of Buncher’s $450 million Riverfront Landing residential and office development. The project would go a long way toward fulfilling Buncher’s goal of building more than 750 residential units on 37 acres of prime riverfront property it owns off Smallman Street, much of which is now used for parking.
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In all, the Cleveland firm expects to develop as many as 800 units at Riverfront Landing, with a total investment “north of $200 million,” said P. Christopher Dirr, NRP vice president of development. Although the company has been doing work in other parts of the region, this will be its first project in the city. NRP will develop the 400-unit complex on two parcels starting at 21st Street and Waterfront Place, a new road being built by Buncher behind the produce terminal.
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And with this picture:
So the first thing that has me confused is the reference to 19th Street. That is because in the PLDP, the four parcels are defined by 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, and 21st. 19th Street would be right in the middle of the third parcel (counting from 16th Street):
The second thing that has me confused is the "Proposed site of development" outlined in the attached map. That goes down just short of 17th Street, not all the way to 16th. I don't think I have seen that broken out as any sort of unit before--Buncher had planned a widened 17th as a sort of plaza when they were going to tear down that end of the Produce Terminal, but had always indicated another residential building between 17th and 16th along the same lines as the others. Note though that 19th is around halfway through that area. Also, there is a road of sorts at that location a bit east of 17th:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pi...f915a15aa21b34
So one interpretation of all this is that the entire 800 units is going in that outline area between 17th and 21st, with 400 units to start between 19th and 21st. That is not as good as 400 units to go from 20th to 21st, but it is better than 400 units from 18th to 21st, which is what two parcels would have meant in the old plan. And at the same scale, there would now be room for another 300-400 units or so to the west short of 16th, assuming that is outside the 800-unit area.
If that is what is planned, then I have to adjust my height estimate. The area between 19th and 21st is a pretty close match to the area Three Crossing is going into--again, a bit narrower actually because of the river. So with 400 units instead of 300 units, that might be a couple more stories than Three Crossings, although with a sufficiently dense design it could be just one more, and with more of a base for parking and amenities it could be as much as three more. So, call it in the 7-9 range.
I liked 10-12 better, but 7-9 would not be so bad. That is a good match for the Cork Factory, which has always been my sort of minimal goal. You might also have to add another story or two for Phase 2 to get to 800 units--the area between 19th and the apparent new street short of 17th is smaller than the area between 19th and 21st as the distance from Railroad/Waterfront Place and the river continues to narrow.
But again, a lot of this is still speculation.
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