Highwoods moving to develop East Liberty office building with project slated to go before Zoning Board of Adjustment

PITTSBURGH — North Carolina-based Highwoods Properties Inc. (NYSE: HIW) is moving faster to build a new office building on a focal corner of Penn Avenue in East Liberty than it ever did at sites it proposed to build on at the SouthSide Works.

The publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns PPG Place and EQT Plaza downtown and has flirted with pursuing development in Pittsburgh before, is scheduled to appear before the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment on Feb. 18.

Working with architecture firm AE7, Highwoods is looking to build a building across from the East Liberty Target store that would be in the range of 50,000 or 60,000 square feet. The company is seeking four variances to do so, including one for height. The project is within a short walk from the Shady Hill Center redevelopment site in East Liberty that was recently rejected by the ZBA for its height, among other reasons.

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