Grocery Store in Downtown Pittsburgh and new housing is part of the Downtown renaissance vision
People will call the iconic Gulf Tower home, the same for 933 Penn Avenue and the former GNC corporate building.
These are among the vacant office spaces that will be flipped for residential condos and apartments shortly, "those are in the pipeline right now, those are the ones we are looking at," says Mayor Ed Gainey.
A broader look at the Downtown Renaissance vision includes a massive influx of five to seven thousand new residential units and a wave of new businesses addressing common services, entertainment, and dining.
"When you get to a tipping point number, then businesses will follow because there's a market there," says John Valentine, Executive Director of the Downtown Neighbors Alliance. "I guarantee we'll have a grocery store at some point."
Point Park University has pledged to build a state-of-the-art 2,000-seat community event center to host live entertainment.
It is designed to be a multi-purpose entertainment feature connecting the Cultural District to the south end of Downtown near the Boulevard of the Allies, "there's an opportunity with this downtown community event center, we're making a major play in live entertainment," says Point Park University President, Chris Brussels.
Stakeholders expect the Renaissance vision to become a reality within the next five years and continue to evolve for the next several years.
