ERIE | Development Projects Thread - Page 13

Erie Pa · #**241** Posted **Dec 4, 2019, 4:10 AM**

Drove by the hotel last week. Looks like they laying groundwork for the #5 listed office bldg.

Here's a photo update om the UMPC/Hamot project

https://www.goerie.com/photogallery/...120309996/PH/1

pj3000 · #**242** Posted **Dec 4, 2019, 3:58 PM**

^ thanks for the info; good to hear that groundwork is being done for the future developments.

It’s funny that they call that new Hamot bldg. a “tower” at a dizzying height of 7(!) stories

Erie Pa · #**243** Posted **Dec 4, 2019, 5:45 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by pj3000

^ thanks for the info; good to hear that groundwork is being done for the future developments.

It’s funny that they call that new Hamot bldg. a “tower” at a dizzying height of 7(!) stories

"Oh, we're taking down that old 8fl bldg. and putting up a new 7fl tower"
Ha ha, That sounds like its a big new deal.

Well at least it fills a hole

pj3000 · #**244** Posted **Dec 4, 2019, 6:18 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erie Pa

"Oh, we're taking down that old 8fl bldg. and putting up a new 7fl tower"
Ha ha, That sounds like its a big new deal.

Well at least it fills a hole

Right, I'm sure the new tower will be an improvement over the building that was there, but I wish UPMC would have just left the original building and built the new one on the big surface parking lot just to the east. Oh well, maybe that's for "future development".

I just despise Hamot's suburban campus in the location that it's in. Way too many surface parking lots and 1-story buildings. I mean, how many downtown buildings have you ever seen that have parking lots in front of them? It's really pitiful that Erie is full of that stuff.

pj3000 · #**245** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 5:52 PM**

Multiple full-scale, restorations of historic properties are occurring in downtown Erie:

West 6th Street National Historic District

All undergoing historically-accurate renovations to be converted to market-rate residential or office space.

Lower State Street

Former Troy Steam Laundry/American Surplus Store building (1880s) on left and adjoining Greeley-Sterrett House (1820s) on right to be restored and converted to 3 loft apartments in the commercial building and 2 apartments in the house. The house was a residence of Horace Greeley (famed founder of the New York Tribune and owner of the quote "Go west, young man").

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/41...-downtown-erie

Erie Pa · #**246** Posted **Dec 12, 2019, 5:42 AM**

Drove down State St today. Both bldgs were fully covered by a canvas façade
with work ongoing.

On some of those homes W 6th st, I had been in several of those over the yrs.
The craftmanship in the woodwork is amazing. One had A ballroom on the 3rd fl
with an orchestra balcony. Several also had attendants stairs from the kitchen
to the upper floors.
Magnificent Mansions of Millionaire's Row.

pj3000 · #**247** Posted **Dec 30, 2019, 5:44 PM**

Noticed that construction on the Bay House restaurant connected to the parking garage on Sassafras St. Pier is well underway. Looks like they are adding structural steel for a 2nd floor/rooftop level. This should be a welcome addition, and hope it helps spur the significant planned development on the pier. Will be good to see the residential component that is planned to "wrap" the garage.

pj3000 · #**248** Posted **Dec 30, 2019, 5:52 PM**

Good idea to utilize the lot where a McDonald's used to be during the winter months before groundbreaking commences on the office/residential development planned for the block.

Erie Pa · #**249** Posted **Jan 18, 2020, 1:00 AM**

Looking for 7 to 9 local foodies (no chains need apply)

https://www.goerie.com/news/20200117...-talent-search

Erie Pa · #**250** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 4:21 PM**

Work on going 20M renovation project UMPC Park

Photo update

https://www.goerie.com/photogallery/...122009997/PH/1

pj3000 · #**251** Posted **Jan 28, 2020, 7:28 PM**

All that's available so far from the Kent State College of Architecture & Environmental Design's Erie, Pennsylvania: Reconnecting the Bayfront charrette to be presented this week.

Erie Pa · #**252** Posted **Feb 11, 2020, 10:13 PM**

Don't like the Dobbins Landing plan. As a kid "bugging State" was a big thing. To this day 3x a week I take a drive around by the tower. Not everyone loves to walk. All those trees will kill the views and summer breezes at the public dock.
Develop the E & W wings but leave the center pier as is.
Just my opinion.

pj3000 · #**253** Posted **Feb 11, 2020, 11:43 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erie Pa

Don't like the Dobbins Landing plan. As a kid "bugging State" was a big thing. To this day 3x a week I take a drive around by the tower. Not everyone loves to walk. All those trees will kill the views and summer breezes at the public dock.
Develop the E & W wings but leave the center pier as is.
Just my opinion.

Having the pier used as a parking lot with an embarrassingly shitty "snack bar" is a enormous waste of waterfront land though. And it's been like that since the 1990s when that cheapo "tower" was built. It's time to move into the future.

"Bugging State" was barely a thing when I was younger... and I'm in my forties. No one wants to drive around aimlessly anymore. And if people don't like to walk a couple hundred feet, well that's too bad. Real cities require people to actually get out of their cars once in a while. The Bayfront is such an enormously underdeveloped, squandered asset, that continuing to do "leave things as they are" is a recipe only for further decline.

I can't see small ornamental trees killing any views or blocking breezes coming off a large body of water.

This was just a proposed design by architecture/urban planning students. It's not sanctioned by any official body. The idea they wanted to get across was to just actually do something with the valuable waterfront property you have that sits basically empty all year round because it is completely uninviting place for humans.

Here's a link to the charrette:

https://www.jeserie.org/uploads/CUDU...%201_13_20.pdf

pj3000 · #**254** Posted **Feb 12, 2020, 7:46 PM**

Gannon announces partnership with tech company

https://www.goerie.com/news/20200212...h-tech-company

Quote:

As part of the agreement, Extreme will build the training center and network the entire facility.

Gannon University announced Wednesday morning a partnership with California-based Extreme Networks that will provide its students with millions of dollars worth of free training over the life of a10-year agreement.

Extreme Networks, which has about 3,500 employees and bills itself as world’s third-largest provider of wired and wireless networking hardware, cloud services and applications for enterprises, data centers and service providers, has committed to be the first company that will be housed in six-story facility for Gannon’s Institute for Health and Cyber Knowledge.

Current:

Renovations:

Erie Pa · #**255** Posted **Feb 16, 2020, 8:27 PM**

Nearing Completion

https://www.goerie.com/business/2020...eries-bayfront

Should be a banger with views of Presque Isle Bay and sunsets over the lake
from the 8th floor.

Erie Pa · #**256** Posted **Mar 29, 2020, 3:24 AM**

Millcreek Hospital Addition

The five-story facility would be built on the Millcreek Community Hospital campus

As reported in The Erie Times-News

https://www.goerie.com/news/20200325...y-move-forward

pj3000 · #**257** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 5:33 PM**

UPMC Park addition construction (a couple months old, but provides a good overview of the site). Once the Warner Theater expansion is built on the parking lot a block away, the overall density at this intersection will increase dramatically.

Rendering of new restaurant atop nearly completed Hampton Inn & Suites; part of Harborplace development on east canal basin on bayfront.

Cheesy font

pj3000 · #**258** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 5:48 PM**

Recent AHN-St. Vincent Hospital emergency department completion

Erie Pa · #**259** Posted **Apr 2, 2020, 11:18 PM**

Still on target
Downtown food hall

https://www.goerie.com/business/2020...erie-food-hall

pj3000 · #**260** Posted **Apr 4, 2020, 3:47 PM**

Noticed that this new affordable housing development is complete in Central Erie's east side. Parade Street Commons East is a $12M development of 40 2-story townhomes and 8 1-story handicap-accessible units.

Built on a long-vacant, linear lot; the former course of the "19th Street Tracks", where the at-grade Nickel Plate RR/Conrail used to roll right through the neighborhood.

The development meets Passive House standards which is really cool.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1207...7i16384!8i8192