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Fighting for height: Limits hamper real estate development

By Tim Schooley, Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

Brickworks Development in the Strip District Rugby Realty Co. Inc. challenged a Zoning Board of Adjustment rejection of its plans for a 108-foot building at 21st and Smallman for its Brickworks development in the Strip District. Rugby eventually won after nine months in court; however, in the end, it chose to redesign a single tower into two office buildings. (Pittsburgh Business Times)

By Tim Schooley, Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — Nearly four years ago, Francois Bitz was rejected by the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment in his proposal to build a 224-foot-tall, 18-story condo project on a lot he owned on Penn Avenue between 26th and 27th Street in the Strip District.

Earlier this summer, he officially gave up, selling the 28,000-square-foot site to suburban Philadelphia-based condo developer Jack Benoff and his Solara Ventures for $1 million.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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