Pittsburgh — New York-based JMC Holdings has boomeranged from total rejection to unanimous approval from the Pittsburgh Planning Commission in its bid to build a new 23-story office tower at 1501 Penn in the Strip District.
The commission voted to approve the plan for a new design for the project at its regularly scheduled meeting, with board chair Christine Mondor praising the developer and its design firm, Brooklyn-based Brandon Haw Architecture, for the various changes they made to the plan.
“The changes that you made shows that you were listening to our concerns and that you embraced some of the limitations that those concerns presented and turned them into amenities in the building,” said Mondor.
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