PITTSBURGH — Texas-based Hillwood Development Co. presented the full details of a demolition-to-reinvention proposal for the former George Westinghouse Research Park along the Parkway East to the Churchill community, seeking a zoning text change to make way for a new e-commerce distribution facility.
It’s a facility in its scale, estimated price tag and reorientation of the supporting roads, that has the potential to reconfigure a key swath of Pittsburgh’s east suburbs.
The project by Hillwood, also the developer of the new one-million-square-foot facility in Findlay Township, is currently designed to total 800,000 square feet on two levels, a rare, new, two-level distribution center in the region, now conservatively estimated to cost $300 million to build out, with upwards of $40 million in various upfront expenses for environmental remediation, a host of new infrastructure along with demolition the current office park as well as acquisition costs.
A project the development team broadly suggested would be for Amazon, the proposal calls for two new slip ramps onto neighboring roads as well as turning the busy double intersection at Beulah Road into a new dual lane roundabout expected to be the first of its kind in the region.
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