The Soffer Organization has a new partner and a working design in place for a new apartment building on what is now a surface parking lot at the SouthSide Works. And it’s looking more and more like this new partner is one that will become increasingly familiar in Pittsburgh. Soffer is working with suburban Detroit-based…
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New Site in Cranberry Chosen for UPMC-Penguins Joint Development
By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Penguins and UPMC have made the development equivalent of a goalie change in their quest to build a $70 million sports performance center and practice rink in Cranberry. After working with developer Don Rodgers for nearly a year to build the complex on a 35-acre site on Route 228,…
Read MoreCranberry UPMC-Pittsburgh Penguins Sports Complex to Include Rinks for Tournaments, Retail Store and Concession Stand
The public will be able to watch the Pens pass the puck at selected practices. Posted by Jessica Sinichak (Editor), Cranberry Patch, July 2, 2013 at 09:10 am It’s possible residents and visitors will catch a glimpse of Sidney Crosby and other hockey stars at the new UPMC-Pittsburgh Penguins sports medicine facility and ice rinks proposed…
Read MoreCouple ready to give boot to the 'Burgh, but in the nicest way
June 21, 2013 12:18 am By Scott Bergstein I came to Pittsburgh 33 years ago and, eventually, became an executive with the venerable Oxford Development Co., where I had the privilege to work for 25 years. I met my wife, Jessica Coup, in Pittsburgh. Together, we lived a fairy tale life in a place that…
Read MoreNew apartments coming to the SouthSide Works
By Margaret L. Smykla www.sopghreporter.com News of a proposed apartment building at the corner of Hot Metal and Sidney streets was the sole presentation at the June 11 meeting of the South Side Planning Forum. The presenters were project manager Benjamin Kelley, and project director Michael Barnard, both of Oxford Development Company. Oxford will be…
Read MoreSymposium in Pittsburgh Focusing on Female Veterans
By Joyce Gannon / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Chris Cieslak returned to Pittsburgh in April 2012 after a year’s duty as a U.S. Army Reserves officer in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was showered with praise by family, friends and professional colleagues. But by that June, the project director for Oxford Development Co. felt as if she had slammed into a…
Read MoreCCAC Could Locate Expanded Campus North of City
Paul J. Gough – Digital Producer- Pittsburgh Business Times The Community College of Allegheny County is looking at a campus north of Pittsburgh that will have more space than the one it has now in McCandless Township. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported it’s part of a long-range plan to increase CCAC’s workforce development programs. It is hiring Oxford…
Read MoreDeveloper seeking anchor tenant for proposed Smithfield Street skyscraper
By Sam Spatter Published: Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 12:01 a.m. As Oxford Development Co. celebrated the 30th anniversary Tuesday of its signature Downtown building at One Oxford Centre, questions remained about the status of its proposed $238 million skyscraper on Smithfield Street. Several tentative deadlines — the most recent being autumn 2012 — have passed without final plans…
Read MoreGreen Healthcare Design: More Than A Fad
Timothy J. Spence, AIA, LEED AP, is principal, healthcare market leader, at BBH Design (Raleigh, N.C.). Since the 1980s, virtually every industry has downsized—except healthcare, which plows ahead like the seemingly invincible Titanic. Now, most industry analysts believe past methods for doing business are crumbling and major changes lie ahead. As past processes and paradigms…
Read MoreOxford Development working with Canadian city on new hockey arena
Pittsburgh Business Times Have experience managing the development of multimillion dollar arenas, will travel. After downtown Pittsburgh-based Oxford Development Co. worked with the City-County Sports and Exhibition Authority on the Consol Energy Center, the firm is also serving as an owner’s representative for the city of Edmonton, Alberta, as it pursues a new $600 million…
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