Pivotal Projects
The URA is involved in hundreds of projects throughout the City of Pittsburgh. Please visit the links below for information on some of our most visible projects today.
If you would like information on projects that are not listed, please contact Megan Stearman, Public Information Officer, at 412.255.6576 or .
Neighborhood: Central Northside
FEDERAL HILL HOMES
This three-phase housing development includes 40 new three-story homes, and has changed the face of a blighted street into an urban boulevard. [more]
Neighborhood: Central Northside
FEDERAL FEDERAL NORTH PROJECT
The Federal North Project is a collaborative redevelopment effort of an entire city block that includes several historic buildings, including the Garden Theater. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
151 FIRST SIDE
Rising 18 stories above the Monongahela River, 151 First Side is the first new condominium constructed in the Pittsburgh Golden Triangle since 1968. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
AUGUST WILSON CENTER
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture is a 65,000 square foot state of the art cultural facility honoring the legacy of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and Pittsburgh native August Wilson. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
MARKET SQUARE
The City of Pittsburgh Department of City Planning, URA and Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership combined forces to design and reconstruct the historic Downtown gathering space, Market Square, to serve as a more pedestrian friendly space with a focus on outdoor dining. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
MARKET SQUARE PLACE
Market Square Place is the historic renovation of the former G.C. Murphy building located on Market Square in Downtown Pittsburgh into a mixed use project of first class retail and loft-style apartments. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
PIATT PLACE
Piatt Place is a mixed-use development that includes tenants McCormick & Schmick’s, TD Ameritrade, Capital Grille, and executive and administrative offices for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [more]
Neighborhood: Downtown
THREE PNC PLAZA
Three PNC Plaza is a 25 story mixed use building that houses the offices of PNC and Reed Smith, a Fairmont Hotel, condominiums, and parking garage. It expands upon PNC’s award-winning commitment to environmental responsibility and green building practices. [more]
Neighborhood: Garfield / Friendship
GLASS LOFTS
The Glass Lofts, a mixed-use project that combines housing, commercial space and artist studios, is part of the 3.2-acre site developed as a community-based master plan. [more]
Neighborhood: Hazelwood
HAZELWOOD HOMES
The Hazelwood Homes development provides affordable, energy efficient homeownership opportunities to low and moderate income families. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
BEDFORD HILL HOMES
The Bedford Hill housing development provides affordable homeownership opportunities to low and moderate income families, and brings new construction to a historic neighborhood. This for-sale housing development is part of a larger housing development plan (Bedford HOPE VI) that includes approximately 350 rental units. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
CRAWFORD SQUARE
Crawford Square provides quality mixed-income housing in a friendly, pedestrian-oriented neighborhood to residents with a wide range of incomes. The project's street grid is an extension of the Hill District's streets that are stitched into the fabric of the existing community. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
THE LEGACY
The Legacy is the new construction of one and two bedroom apartment units for seniors age 62+, and serves as replacement housing for the now obsolete public housing site three blocks away. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
BEDFORD HILL HOPE VI
The Bedford/HOPE VI development recreates approximately thirty-four (34) city blocks. A traditional mixed-income neighborhood will be created through the construction of over 600 units of housing, both rental and for sale. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
WYLIE AVENUE HOMES
Wylie Avenue Homes is a 32-unit scattered site in-fill housing development that has been formulated as the first step in the implementation of the Middle Hill Housing Revitalization Plan. [more]
Neighborhood: Hill District
YMCA: CENTRE AVENUE
The proposed project includes both renovation of the YMCA’s existing Centre Avenue facility as well as the construction of a new full facility family branch and is a clear demonstration of the organizations continuing commitment to the Hill District community and the City of Pittsburgh. [more]
Neighborhood: Lawrenceville
BUTLER STREET STREETFACE PROGRAM
The Streetface program has been a cornerstone of community revitalization work since 1984, when the Lawrenceville Corporation restored the Pennsylvania Bank Building to its former grandeur with Streetface support. That initial investment spurred the architecturally sensitive restoration of many commercial buildings and ultimately created a critical mass of attractive properties that improve the streetscape, increase property values, attract new businesses and draw shoppers to the neighborhood. [more]
Neighborhood: Marshall Shadeland
WASHBURN SQUARE
Absentee landlord property ownership led to a set of blighted rental housing units in the Northside neighborhood of Marshall Shadeland. The Brightwood Civics Group (BCG) partnered with the URA to devise a creative solution to a longstanding community concern. [more]
Neighborhood: South Side
BENEFICIAL BUILDING
The Beneficial Building project was one driven by the local community development corporation. The building sat vacant for nearly twenty-five years, and was in a state of extreme disrepair. Partnership with the URA and other public financing agencies helped restore this historic property. [more]
Neighborhood: South Side
EAST CARSON STREET STREETFACE PROGRAM
Since the programs inception in 1986, almost 200 storefronts along East Carson Street have been renovated with Streetface, generating $5.5 million of investment in facades alone. A local historic district, East Carson Street has been able to be mostly preserved, using Streetface as a primary tool for preservation projects. [more]
Neighborhood: South Side
SOUTH SHORE RIVERFRONT PARK
The South Shore Riverfront Park project has an estimated price tag of $10.5 million, and will include a hotel, restaurant, residential buildings, trails, a boating tie-up facility, water access, interpretive signage and historic trail markers, that continue the Three Rivers Heritage Trail system and Great Allegheny Passage. [more]
Neighborhood: Strip District
OTTO MILK
The Otto Milk Factory was built around 1865 as the Phoenix Brewing Company, and served as a brewery for several decades before being used by the Otto Milk Company as a processing and storage facility. This redevelopment project mixes condominiums and retail. [more]