Zoning Board rejects 188-foot-tall office building in Oakland

The next building owned by Murland Associates LP which will be pursued under a ground lease is at 3440 Forbes, currently occupied by a CVS Pharmacy.

By Tim Schooley  – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — Wexford Science + Technology LLC's proposal for a new office and lab tower at 3340 Forbes Avenue in Oakland did not win over the Zoning Board of Adjustments, which rejected the proposal as too tall and too dense to be granted the variance and two special exceptions it sought for the project.

In a seven-page ruling, with chair Alice Mitinger recusing, the zoning board argued that Wexford didn't prove an overriding need to build a new tower well beyond the district's height limits.

[ Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times. ]

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