Pittsburgh city planners to review Bakery Square development idea

Published: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, 11:42p.m. Updated 5 hours ago

The City Planning Commission on Tuesday will review the first office building proposed as part of the $100 million Bakery Square 2.0 development in the East Liberty/Larimer area.

Walnut Capital of Shadyside, the developer and owner of Bakery Square, is proposing a 218,000-square-foot building in the 6400 block of Penn Avenue. The $27 million project would be opposite the existing office building in Bakery Square and would connect by an enclosed pedestrian walkway four stories above Penn Avenue.

The new building, the first of a possible three with a combined 400,000 square feet, will be six stories tall, according to a suggested artist sketch.

The development, on the former Reizenstein Middle School site, will include two 175-unit apartment buildings and 57 rental town houses. Construction of the first apartment structure will begin early this year.

No one would say whether Google, which is expanding at Bakery Square, might be a tenant of the new building.

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