Heart of Glass: Town homes, lofts sparkle inside old South Side glass factory
Saturday, June 17, 2006 at 01:00PMPittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 17, 2006
By Marylynne Pitz
Lofts, town homes sparkle in old glass factory
Disbelief gripped Mary Doyle as she looked over the old, decrepit building her husband bought on the South Side two years ago.
"I just about cried when I saw it," she said.
But Dan Doyle, a blue-eyed, energetic guy with a lumberjack's build, was undaunted. With a team of subcontractors and two Italian brick masons, he transformed the old factory into 15th Street Glassworks at 15th and Muriel streets. They moved walls, tore down an ugly, concrete-block annex and created three town houses and two lofts that are surrounded by a walled courtyard with outdoor parking.
"We tried to respect what the building was originally. It sort of has that European feel to it. I did the courtyard so that it would look like something you would see in Germany," Mr. Doyle said.
The developer's earlier projects included renovating the current homes of Hite Co., SunKing Interactive Group and Lightspeed Grip & Lighting, all in the city's Uptown section.
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