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…
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Oxford in the News
Developer 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…
Read MoreHYATT house Pittsburgh-South Side Celebrates Official Opening
April 24, 2013, 3:06 p.m. EDT The 136-room Hyatt House hotel is located in Pittsburgh’s South Side CHICAGO, Apr 24, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Concord Hospitality Enterprises, and Oxford Development Company today announce the opening of HYATT house Pittsburgh-South Side, the first HYATT house hotel in the city of Pittsburgh. “We…
Read MoreWith Downtown Pittsburgh office space tight, is new skyscraper on horizon?
By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even with two new office buildings in the works Downtown, there just might be room for a third. With office vacancies at a 30-year low and demand high, conditions could be aligning for a developer to take a chance on building another skyscraper in the Golden Triangle, local real estate experts…
Read MoreURA to vote on developer’s shift from office space to apartments in SouthSide Works
A proposal to build a 170-unit apartment building in place of an office building at SouthSide Works will be reviewed Thursday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Oxford Development Co., with Trammel Crow and PJ Dick Inc., had planned to construct the office building on a three-acre site on Sidney Street. But since being awarded the…
Read MoreOxford Pursues SouthSide Works Complex
By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oxford Development Co. has ditched plans for a 121,000-square-foot office building at the SouthSide Works in favor of a proposed 170-unit apartment complex on the same land. The city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority board is expected to vote Thursday on whether to rescind an approval given last year to sell a parcel…
Read MoreSouthSide Works office project shifts to apartments
A conspicuously open plot at the SouthSide Works expected to be an office building is shifting to apartments. According to the agenda for Tuesday’s board meeting of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Oxford and partners PJ Dick are planning to drop their plan for a 120,000-square-foot office building on an open site on Hot Metal Street…
Read MoreAllegheny County Executive, Monroeville Officials, and Partners Cut the Ribbon at 4350 Northern Pike
Modern facility renovations bring new Class A Office Space to Monroeville MONROEVILLE, PA – March 12, 2013 Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, joined by partners Reit Management & Research LLC and Oxford Realty Services, Inc. today cut the ribbon at 4350 Northern Pike in Monroeville, a 505,000 square foot office building set on a 138…
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