PITTSBURGH — Already with five other affordable housing conversions underway in and around downtown, Beacon Communities Senior Vice President Michael Polite can talk about a couple different attributes for his firm’s latest project that stand out among the others.
“Amazing,” he called 120 Cecil Pl. “Every time you look into right field while you’re at PNC Park, you’ll be looking at that building.”
To be sure, Pittsburgh Pirates fans have long been able to look out at the downtown skyline beyond PNC Park to see the aging orange-brick and long unused Pittsburgh Allegheny County Thermal Building topped with smoke stacks suggestive of its use for more than a century generating steam to heat buildings in and around downtown.
With construction underway, Polite and Beacon are shooting to reinvent the historic structure into a new residential address of 97 apartments, an affordable conversion project for which 49 of them will be dedicated to Pittsburgh Scholar House and its mission to provide affordable housing options to parents pursuing their educations and facing financial limitations.
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