Pittsburgh-based Impakt Development converting high school into lofts

Pittsburgh Business Times  - June 4, 2010
By Tim Schooley

Casey Steiner understands how an unexpected education can come without warning from the plaster rubble, ripped-up flooring and broken windows of an old and neglected former school.

“Any project has a lot of unknowns when you get into it,” said Steiner, principal of Impakt Development Inc., based in Edgewood.

Yet after such successful projects as the Grant School Lofts and the South Side Lofts, Steiner and partner Jonathan Hill are ready to take on their biggest project, the redevelopment of the former Fifth Avenue High School, a 110,000-square-foot Gothic-style relic located in Uptown.

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