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Court decision favors Troiani bid to demolish Froggy’s, neighboring downtown Pittsburgh buildings

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times
Froggy's building - PBT Name plate on one of the buildings demonstrating a prior use as a popular bar. (Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times/Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times)
By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — The Froggy’s building may come down along with its neighbors along Market Street after all.

That’s the basic upshot of a new decision by Commonwealth Court, which ruled to vacate a decision by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas as well as that of the board of appeals in the city Department of Permits, Licensing and Inspections, which both ruled against emergency appeals to demolish the Market Street buildings.

It’s a major legal victory for the properties’ ownership, the Troiani family and its Troy Development Associates LP, which have been appealing to tear down the buildings. Troiani’s structural engineers have testified the buildings are a structural danger, in what has been an ongoing preservation tussle over the value of the red brick, 19th-century structures.

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