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Highwoods Properties plans to sell off PPG Place, other Pittsburgh assets as it expands into Dallas

PPG Place PPG Place has been the headquarters for Allegheny Technologies but the company is scouting for a new location.wpxi

PITTSBURGH — Highwoods Properties Inc. announced late Tuesday afternoon that it was investing in a major expansion into Dallas and expects to do so by selling off its assets in Pittsburgh.

Its local assets include two of downtown’s biggest office properties, the six-building PPG Place, which totals 1.5 million square feet and has long ranked as one of the Golden Triangle’s most prestigious office addresses, and EQT Plaza. Raleigh-based Highwoods also owns a site on Penn Avenue in East Liberty across from the Target store for which it has been approved to build a new six-story office building.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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