Mixed-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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Piatt calls 20,000 residents downtown in 10 years 'absolutely achievable'

Tim Schooley – Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times Don’t expect all the new apartments coming on the market in and around downtown Pittsburgh to sit empty for long once they’re completed. That’s the confident consensus expressed — with occasional caveats — by a panel of local developers who are playing a major role in creating a…

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Oxford Development's confidence in Pittsburgh builds with new project

By Tom Fontaine Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, 11:51 p.m. Oxford Development is wagering nearly $400 million on growing demand for high-end office and living spaces, the latest bet a $130 million deal on the Allegheny River in the Strip District that will include storage for bikes and kayaks. Oxford broke ground Tuesday on its biggest project…

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New housing, office space slated for Strip District

PITTSBURGH —Developers hope Three Crossings will become the hottest new place to live and work in Pittsburgh Oxford Development officials broke ground Wednesday on the 11-acre site, which sits along the Allegheny River at Smallman and Railroad streets in the Strip District. When completed, it will feature 300 apartments and up to 375,000 square feet…

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Pittsburgh Neighborhood Revitalization Scheduled for East End and South Side with $90 Million Through Huntington Bank

PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Two major Pittsburgh development projects are receiving a healthy dose of financing through Huntington Bank’s commercial real estate division to help in the growth of the city’s East End and Southside. Developers, Oxford Development Company and The Mosites Company, received a combined $90 million in loans for mixed-use properties together totaling 477 multifamily housing…

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Oxford plans office building at Pittsburgh Technology Center

Oxford Development Co. still hasn’t announced any final word on whether it will build a new office tower in downtown Pittsburgh. But that doesn’t mean the company isn’t busy elsewhere. Amid plans for apartment projects on the South Side, the Strip District and Homewood, the company is now considering a plan to build a new…

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Success of Strip District properties spawns ideas to add residential projects

By Sam Spatter Published: Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, 9:40 p.m. Updated 12 hours ago The Strip District’s two successful apartment developments — the 298-unit Cork Factory along Railroad Street and nearby 96-unit Lot 24 — are luring developers to work on at least three more. They are encouraged by the 100 percent occupancy of the apartments;…

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Housing complexes planned for Strip District

By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   Known for its produce wholesalers and Penn Avenue vendors, the Strip District is fast becoming a mecca for new housing. Oxford Development Co. is proposing the latest venture, a 299-unit apartment complex on the Allegheny riverfront between 26th and 27th streets. The new development will feature a mix…

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Wife, Mother, Soldier

Cara P. Lemieux | The SHRIVER Report – 11.11.2013 Watch the YouTube Video – Before deployment, kisses and tears  One woman, Lt. Col. Chris Cieslak is an Active Drilling Reservist (serving in Troop Program Unit status) and has more than 22 years of services in the Army Reserves. She was commissioned in 1991, has served two terms…

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