Developer hopes to put apartments in the Goodwill headquarters
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 05:10PMSouth Pittsburgh Reporter - March 17, 2009
By Margaret Smyka
Two potential new apartment complexes were the subject of presentations at the March 10 meeting of the South Side Planning Forum.
The first presentation was by Jim Scalo, president of Burns and Scalo Real Estate Services, which plans to purchase the seven-story Goodwill headquarters building and surrounding buildings between 26th and 27th streets. The sale is not final. Mr. Scalo is helping Goodwill search for a new location in Pittsburgh.
The whole deal, he said, is contingent upon Goodwill finding a suitable relocation site. Goodwill will retain its retail store.
While plans for the headquarters building are preliminary, Mr. Scalo said early designs call for retail on the ground level with apartments on the upper floors. Tenants’ parking would be on the basement level and in the rear of building.
While he foresees 55 to 70 apartments that are mostly one-bedroom, "it is very early," he said.
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