Tim Schooley Pittsburgh Business Times Reporting a strong initial leasing at an apartment project at the SouthSide Works, Oxford Development Co. is now pushing forward with the Emerald on Centre, a 172-unit apartment building to replace what is now a Masterworks Paint building a block from the East Liberty Whole Foods. The company briefed the…
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Oxford plans to make Strip District development even bigger
Tim Schooley Pittsburgh Business Times Oxford Development Co. is working to expand its holdings in the Strip District with a key riverfront property. The company is negotiating to buy what will soon be the former Easter Seals building, a property that includes a 76,000-square-foot structure on 2.28 acres of land that includes 250 feet of…
Read MoreOxford furthers commitment for Emerald on Centre apartment project in East Liberty
Tim Schooley Pittsburgh Business Times An Oxford Development Co. affiliate has closed on buying the East Liberty property for a new apartment complex near Whole Foods. A firm called Emerald on Centre Apartments LP paid $3 million for two parcels at 5739 Centre Ave., one currently a Masterwork Paint operation, according to real estate records.…
Read MoreOxford brings in outside firm to help market downtown office tower project
Tim Schooley Pittsburgh Business Times In an unusual step for the full-service development firm, Oxford Development Co. announced it is partnering with Colliers International to expand the marketing for its proposed office tower development downtown, 350 Fifth Ave. A project originally announced in 2012, Oxford has been working to establish anchor tenants to generate financing…
Read MoreOxford breaks ground and announces first tenant at airport corridor flex office development
PITTSBURGH, May 18, 2015 Oxford Development Company and its partners today broke ground on 250 Industry Drive, a $13 million, 16-acre, flex office campus development in the Parkway West Corridor, providing a total of 88,000 square feet of flex office space in two buildings. The proposed development will provide 100% efficient flex office space, allowing…
Read MoreP4 Pittsburgh – People, Planet, Place and Performance
The City of Pittsburgh and The Heinz Endowments are spearheading a major effort to forge a new model of urban growth and development that is innovative, inclusive and sustainable. This model is based around a central, unifying framework—p4: People, Planet, Place and Performance—and launched at an international summit organized by Sustainable Pittsburgh in April 2015.…
Read MoreOxford Development finds strong prospects in its own backyard
Tim Schooley -Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times Oxford Development Co. spent the years following the Great Recession building new hotels in places like Michigan and Colorado and working on federal projects with the Department of General Services. But these days, Oxford’s current focus is home sweet home. “From 2013 to 2015, our emphasis has been heavily…
Read MoreOxford Development Co. launching energy business
Tim Schooley – Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times Oxford Development Co. is taking an established in-house service and turning into a new company. It’s an energy company called Oxford Energy, LLC, said Shawn Fox, the vice president of business development for Oxford. “For us, it’s another platform in our vertical, in terms of having a complete…
Read MoreMoving to Where the Price is Right
By Patrick J. Kiger Urban Land – The Magazine of The Urban Land Institute February 9, 2015 – Original Post There was a time when New York City—the epitome of the 24-hour city and a traditional magnet for the best and brightest young professionals—seemed like the perfect place for Mike Cross and Theresa Boyd. Cross,…
Read MoreMixed-use projects bring city setting to suburbia
By Tory N. Parrish – Tribune-Review Retirees Fred and Donna Albert were looking for a change of pace last year, but they didn’t want to slow down, they said. With their five grown children out of their single-family home in McCandless, the Alberts decided they wanted to move to a place that offered them amenities…
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