18 story condo tower planned for Strip District (Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville: 2015, houses)

[JoeP]

FORE Systems Founding Principal and tech entrepreneur Francois Bitz is pursuing a plan to build an 18-story condo development in the Strip District, an early stage project expected to total 70 to 80 units in a building that could reach more than 200 feet in height.

Bitz owns a 28,000-square-foot open plot on Penn Avenue between 26th and 27th streets that neighbors Savoy Restaurant, a stretch of the neighborhood now largely smaller commercial buildings

FORE Systems' Francois Bitz planning condo tower in the Strip District - Pittsburgh Business Times

[Rocket88]

I think the Penn Avenue in the Strip is ripe for taller buildings. This is far enough away from the heart of the Penn Avenue shops not to be intrusive but still close enough. This project in The Strip and will help connect the Strip to Lawrenceville, which is happening slowly but surely. I even noticed that part of the scrap yard fronting Penn by Doughboy Square has been cleaned, If we are lucky, it will move. There is plenty of room elsewhere in the Strip and Lawrenceville where it can re-locate. It need to get off of Penn Avenue because it hinders the gateway to those neighborhoods more so than the old warehouses.

[SteelCityRising]

This is going to be right near Apple's new offices as well. The Strip is really booming!

[Craziaskowboi]

At the other end of the Strip District, I'd like to see a 300'-400' tower built somewhere between the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Veterans Bridge. My two least-favorite angles of the Pittsburgh skyline are from the east and the northeast, because you have the U.S. Steel Tower dominating with absolutely nothing in front of it. This is what I'm talking about:



The skyline looks lop-sided from up the Allegheny River, and I'd like to see that change sometime.

[Rocket88]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

At the other end of the Strip District, I'd like to see a 300'-400' tower built somewhere between the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Veterans Bridge. My two least-favorite angles of the Pittsburgh skyline are from the east and the northeast, because you have the U.S. Steel Tower dominating with absolutely nothing in front of it. This is what I'm talking about:



The skyline looks lop-sided from up the Allegheny River, and I'd like to see that change sometime.

I agree. The US Steel Building looks monolithic from there. I have been seeing that angle for years as I grew up and still live off of the Route 28 corridor. If US Steel's new headquarters could have been 15 stories or so, it would have helped on that higher land. But No. They can only give us a pathetic 5 stories on what is supposed to be an extension of Downtown.

[Geeo]

What makes it worse from that angle is that the upper triangle's elevation is higher and slopes down toward the point, so it ends up making US Steel look even taller and tall buildings like PPG and Fifth Avenue Place down toward the point look shorter than they really are. Best views are definitely from the north, south or west.