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Old 12-28-2015, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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NAILED IT! Haha!
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Old 12-28-2015, 05:41 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh's North Side
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I love it...but for downtown, not the Strip...
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Old 12-28-2015, 07:26 PM
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Location: Pittsburgh
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What do you guys think would be more appropriate for the strip vs. this rust design?
It may grow on me. Part of me is starting to like it. I always feel people living in a high rise need a balcony. People need to get out and get some air.
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Old 12-29-2015, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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It looks like it belongs at Myrtle Beach or something to me.
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Old 12-29-2015, 10:57 AM
 
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I'm on the something is better then nothing side of the fence, however, I fear that this (and most of the new housing that has been under construction recently) will look very dated in the not too distant future.
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Old 12-29-2015, 11:27 AM
 
Location: North Oakland
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It looks like it belongs at Myrtle Beach or something to me.
Like a nouveau Howard Johnson's.
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Old 12-29-2015, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Park Rapids
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This concept looks good to me for the Strip. Yinz are concerned with the coloration and fascia when you should be concerned with the linoleum parking lot.
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Old 12-29-2015, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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What is there for a Polish Hill resident to NIMBY about? It's not blocking scenic views, adding crime, adding pollution, adding traffic, or anything else worth fussing about, there's no architectural integrity issues because the Strip's architure near there is basically concrete boxes. Unless they want to dig their heels in against all change, but as much as people gripe about the yuppification and foodification of the area, seems like that can only help the Strip. It's not like people were otherwise going to put affordable housing and greasy spoons up. Or is this an aesthetic objection?
"It is going to be out of character for the Strip."
"It's too dense."
"It's too tall."
"It will affect views."

The usual yuppie-related NIMBYism---"WAHHHHH!!!"


I live literally a few doors up from West Penn Park, which is spitting distance from this site, and I couldn't be more supportive of this project. It's going to be built atop a vacant lot---not a Victorian home. It will bring a bunch of high-earning people into the city who will pump up the city's wage tax revenues, which can, in turn, be used to pave streets in Carrick; give firefighters a bonus; or rehabilitate a playground in the East Hills. As I also referenced more high-end housing coming to town may trickle down in the long-run with rental prices hopefully starting to level off instead of continuing on their sharp upward trajectory, preserving the city's availability of middle-class-appropriate rental stock.

I know people on this sub-forum disagree with me, but as has been evidenced by the mayor stepping in with the impending redevelopment of Penn Plaza in East Liberty from Section 8 to luxury there is indeed a shortage of affordable rentals proximate to transit lines in this city.
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Old 12-29-2015, 12:58 PM
 
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but as has been evidenced by the mayor stepping in with the impending redevelopment of Penn Plaza in East Liberty from Section 8 to luxury there is indeed a shortage of affordable rentals proximate to transit lines in this city.
How does luxury equate to affordable?
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Old 12-29-2015, 01:10 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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How does luxury equate to affordable?
Sorry. I may not have expressed that as eloquently as I should have done.

Mayor Peduto had an emergency meeting with the Gumberg family (of L.G. Realty), the new owners of the Penn Plaza site, to request that they delay their initial plans to hurriedly evict the existing lower-income tenants so they could raze the properties and put in high-end luxury rentals UNTIL alternative housing options for the current residents could be found. It was determined that there is indeed a shortage of affordable housing in the East End, as most of these residents would have nowhere convenient to relocate to. If I'm not mistaken a new low-income housing project is being built in Larimer, and it should be on-line just in time to house most of those being displaced when Penn Plaza does get razed for another high-end development.

There's no doubt in my mind that Penn & Negley is very valuable residential real estate; however, telling hundreds of people that they have months or even weeks to take their Section 8 vouchers to Clairton or Duqeusne when they've been living and working in East Liberty for many years is harsh.
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