Business

Penguins development team presents plan for FNB Financial Center to Pittsburgh Planning Commission

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

Civic Arena site to see big impact from minority, women-owned businesses during redevelopment The Pittsburgh Penguins' development team presented their first private development project for the 28-acre former Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill to the Pittsburgh Planning Commission.

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins’ development team presented their first private development project for the 28-acre former Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill to the Pittsburgh Planning Commission.

It was a presentation in which the Penguins and their main development partner, Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG), introduced the fraught history of the site’s previous redevelopment and their detailed efforts to overcome the social damage caused by it to the rest of the Hill District neighborhood.

“We will have succeeded when you don’t know where our project starts and when it ends,” said Chris Buccini, a co-president of BPG, based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Read more from our news partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.

TRENDING NOW:

  • Police fatally shoot Ohio teenager as she held knife
  • Pine-Richland says firing of coach came after months-long investigation
  • PHOTOS: Spring snow in Pittsburgh area
  • VIDEO: Local civil rights activists push for policing changes at the federal level
  • DOWNLOAD the Channel 11 News app for breaking news alerts

    • Minority, women-owned businesses playing big role in redevelopment of Civic Arena site


    Pittsburgh Business Times

    Most Read