Pittsburgh Area Development - Request for Info & Updates (New Castle: dangerous, shopping mall)

[wpipkins2]

Originally Posted by svband76

Yes, the Strip has become a place of half-baked ideas with no unified vision of how it should look. Just ran past a brand spanking new office building housing only GNC at the moment. Mostly vacant, oddly, with an empty street-level space. Hope it gets filled at some point. Development started out superbly with the awesome Armstrong Cork redevelopment but ehhh since then.

I feel differently. Dining alfresco on some blocks feels totally different. The alley views are great with all of the lit up oversized windows. It’s a very unique place in Pittsburgh and the developments thus far are positive for the area. The GNC area is still in transition and will mature over time. That area was a dump prior to Oxford’s Three Crossings Development. I love the Strip!

[Nailerman9192]

Not sure if this is the right place to post not. A big economic win for the Ohio Valley and Pittsburgh exburbs. Weirton, WV is getting a new 760 million dollar battery plant that will create 750 jobs. A hop skip and jump from Robinson Twp. and Pittsburgh.

https://www.wvpublic.org/economy/202...rton?_amp=true

[wpipkins2]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

I feel differently. Dining alfresco on some blocks feels totally different. The alley views are great with all of the lit up oversized windows. It’s a very unique place in Pittsburgh and the developments thus far are positive for the area. The GNC area is still in transition and will mature over time. That area was a dump prior to Oxford’s Three Crossings Development. I love the Strip!

Originally Posted by Nailerman9192

Not sure if this is the right place to post not. A big economic win for the Ohio Valley and Pittsburgh exburbs. Weirton, WV is getting a new 760 million dollar battery plant that will create 750 jobs. A hop skip and jump from Robinson Twp. and Pittsburgh.

https://www.wvpublic.org/economy/202...rton?_amp=true

This is Pennsylvania. There is a West Virginia forum and the link has been posted there. I’m not sure if this development will have any impact on Greater Pittsburgh.

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

The Strip District townhomes turned out better than expected. They appear to be selling. Somebody feels differently regarding “out of place” not to mention there was nothing there to clash with anyway. It doesn’t look out of place in a location that was considered a no man’s land since my earliest memories around 1979. I was 4.

probably sums up why i decided not to do anything with my architecture degree - any development today is considered good - there are no aesthetic standards now, just building codes

there hasn't been a great building built in pittsburgh since the convention center twenty years ago - and that was designed by an architect from Uruguay

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

wake me up when someone decides to build something on the most famous vacant (parking) lot in downtown pittsburgh

maybe first national bank will build their headquarters there - surely they understand how important it is for the city have an important building fill that void

2022


2012


2007

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

the strip district "brownstones" development sucks - just ridiculously out of place.

I don't agree with you on a lot of things, but I do agree that townhouses are not a typology befitting the Strip District - too low density of a use given what the neighborhood is turning into.

That said, there were particular reasons why they chose to go with townhouses there. The parcel was extremely narrow since it was hemmed in by the public right of way in the front, and the Terminal Building's parking lot in the rear. I'm not sure it would have been feasible to do a set of skinny apartment buildings there - at least if you were required to also have an integral parking garage.

That said, the "brownstones" (the name makes me want to hurl...so idiotic...they're brick, and mostly not brown) sold very well, which is why other developers are now aping them.

[svband76]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

probably sums up why i decided not to do anything with my architecture degree - any development today is considered good - there are no aesthetic standards now, just building codes

there hasn't been a great building built in pittsburgh since the convention center twenty years ago - and that was designed by an architect from Uruguay

Interesting comment. Actually, I will now hold your opinions in higher regard, given your education.

And you are so correct.

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

Originally Posted by eschaton

too low density of a use given what the neighborhood is turning into.

the Terminal Building's parking lot in the rear.

the Terminal Building's parking lot greatly contributes to the density of the neighborhood - it was desperately needed because there is not a brand new multi-story parking structure directly across the street

https://goo.gl/maps/o8jbx7ebN3JpZ2oMA

and there are no massive empty lots used for parking in the vicinity

https://goo.gl/maps/G5oTgaSTK9bJkqMk7

https://goo.gl/maps/JxbCCMdrjMeDSduu8

[wpipkins2]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

probably sums up why i decided not to do anything with my architecture degree - any development today is considered good - there are no aesthetic standards now, just building codes

there hasn't been a great building built in pittsburgh since the convention center twenty years ago - and that was designed by an architect from Uruguay

Not true


Three PNC

The Tower @ PNC Plaza

Many adaptive reuse projects…Bakery Square, Heinz Lofts, Highline….

Baumhaus

Gates and Hillman CMU

Eastside Bond

Just off the top of my head

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

Not true


Three PNC

The Tower @ PNC Plaza

Many adaptive reuse projects…Bakery Square, Heinz Lofts, Highline….

Baumhaus

Gates and Hillman CMU

Eastside Bond

Just off the top of my head

don't forget the architectural masterpiece known as liberty east