VENETIA — The city of Pittsburgh’s Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections is pursuing legal charges against the Troiani family in Pittsburgh Municipal Court over its “unsafe structures” along First and Market Streets that the Troianis have long been seeking approval to demolish anyway.
The Troianis and its Troy Development originally sought approval to tear down its four remaining buildings along Market and First Streets, including the former Froggy’s building in the First Side section of downtown, against a Pittsburgh Planning Commission that ruled against them in a decision a little more than two years ago.
While the commission argued the three buildings along Market Street contributed to the historic character of the historic district in which the properties are located, the back-and-forth court proceedings for the past 24 months now pits the PLI against Troy in a municipal court dispute over the demolition approach for the properties.
In a brief court appearance over a hearing that was tabled to a date in mid-November, Lawrence Baumiller, assistant city solicitor representing PLI, acknowledge a major concern by the city long expressed by Troy Development principal Michael Troiani about the company’s 209 First Street property.
It’s an aging six-story structure that hasn’t been occupied in decades that neighbors the Troiani’s three-story structures next door on Market Street.
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