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PAA's Owner and Architect are Polishing and Restoring the Jewel of Oakland

PAA's Owner and Architect are Polishing and Restoring the Jewel of Oakland

Inside the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Mister Rogers swam laps to stay fit. From the water, he could see its elegant terracotta balcony, its double barrel-vaulted ceiling and the Guastavino arches that supported it... Read more

No Chair Needed: City Board Backs End to Off-Street Parking Requirement

No Chair Needed: City Board Backs End to Off-Street Parking Requirement

The Pittsburgh Planning Commission has endorsed a measure that would end the off-street parking requirement for new townhouses and row houses, a move designed to curb the proliferation of attached garages and driveways that some view as neighborhood killers... Read more

Smallman Galley Shipping Out to Bakery Square

Smallman Galley Shipping Out to Bakery Square

The commercial "refresh" at Bakery Square is to become the new location of a food hall by Galley Group, which will move into the new buildout next winter. Read more

WATCH: Hundreds Gather for Protest, Sit-In In Pittsburgh's Bakery Square

WATCH: Hundreds Gather for Protest, Sit-In In Pittsburgh's Bakery Square

Hundreds of people gathered for a protest and sit-in in Pittsburgh's Bakery Square on Saturday afternoon. A moment of silence was held for nearly nine minutes during the sit-in. The protest is one of several happening in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday in response to the death of George Floyd. Read more

Growth Spurt: Walnut Capital Acquires Shopping Center Next to Bakery Square

Growth Spurt: Walnut Capital Acquires Shopping Center Next to Bakery Square

Walnut Capital has made another big acquisition on Penn Avenue in the East End, adding to its collection of holdings near its cutting-edge Bakery Square development... Read more

A Tech Haven In the Making? Demolition to Clear the Way For Oakland Innovation Tower

A Tech Haven In the Making? Demolition to Clear the Way For Oakland Innovation Tower

Walnut Capital is ready to get rolling on a 10-story office tower in Oakland designed to be a cornerstone of Pittsburgh's nascent innovation district. Read more

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital To Take Over Former Cadillac Dealership In Oakland

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital To Take Over Former Cadillac Dealership In Oakland

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital will occupy a Cadillac and Yugo dealership near its Oakland campus rehabbed by Shadyside developer Walnut Capital. Walnut Capital confirmed that UPMC will be the sole tenant of the 41,000-square-foot building it spent $8 million converting into office space... Read more

Living Here: Living Blue at Bakery Square is Easy

Living Here: Living Blue at Bakery Square is Easy

On Sundays, Bakery Living Blue offers its tenants free waffles, bagels and coffee in the common room. Every other day of the week, residents can burn off those carbs in a two-story, state-of-the-art fitness center. Those are just two of the reasons that doctors Alex Skidmore & Alli Foroobar enjoy... Read more

As New Apartments are Built Around Pittsburgh, Older Stock is Feeling the Pressure

As New Apartments are Built Around Pittsburgh, Older Stock is Feeling the Pressure

The boom in apartment buildings in Pittsburgh could spell trouble for landlords of older stock as they try to hold on to renters who find the shiny new units and the amenities that come with them hard to resist... Read more

Personalities of Pittsburgh: Fort Willow Developers' Alex Simakas

Personalities of Pittsburgh: Fort Willow Developers' Alex Simakas

In this week's Personalities of Pittsburgh, we spoke with Alex Simakas, who is redeveloping five acres in Lawrenceville and recently completed the Foundry at 41st Street apartment complex. He talks about his hopes for the project and the importance of working with a great team... Read more

Offices Proposed at Site of Former Cadillac Dealership in Oakland

Offices Proposed at Site of Former Cadillac Dealership in Oakland

Developer Walnut Capital is proposing to convert the dilapidated two-story building at 3224 Boulevard of the Allies into 41,000 square feet of office space, use in much demand in Oakland, where rents are high and vacancies nearly nonexistent. Read more

Oxford's Hot Metal Flats Receives Prestigious LEED Green Building Certification

Oxford's Hot Metal Flats Receives Prestigious LEED Green Building Certification

South Side Residential Projects Achieves LEED Gold Certification Read more

Bakery Living I Wins a Best in American Living Award

Bakery Living I Wins a Best in American Living Award

Strada is delighted to announce that Bakery Living I, the lively new residential building it designed in Pittsburgh's East End, received a Best in American Living Award (BALA) from the National Association of Home Builders. BALA winners were announced on January 25, 2016 in Las Vegas... Read more

Walnut Capital Will Preserve Two Historic East Liberty Storefronts

Walnut Capital Will Preserve Two Historic East Liberty Storefronts

Walnut Capital has agreed to save two historic Penn Avenue facades as part of its plans for a new 78-unit apartment project in East Liberty. The Shadyside developer will incorporate the terra-cotta storefronts into the design of the new $14 million, six-story building on Penn. Read more

Oxford, PJ Dick Ready To Go On Hot Metal Flats With Walnut Capital To Manage New Apartment Project

Oxford, PJ Dick Ready To Go On Hot Metal Flats With Walnut Capital To Manage New Apartment Project

Development team to go forward with 117-apartment building at SouthSide Works without Lincoln Property Co. as a partner. Read more