View from February 2021 of Downtown Pittsburgh, the emerging Cap Park and part of the site of the former Civic Arena, where the Penguins are leading a redevelopment effort. (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)
Both sides agreed that they’d keep talking in advance of City Planning Commission consideration of BPG’s plans for a 26-story First National Bank [FNB] tower near the Hill’s border with Downtown. A commission vote could come next month. While the Hill CDC’s sign-off on the $230 million tower isn’t required, the commission typically weighs community group input heavily in its decisions
Milliones pledged to meet with the developer soon “to nail down what’s real and what’s theoretical” in the term sheet.
Marimba Milliones, president and CEO of the Hill CDC, shows aerial photos of the Hill District before and after the construction of the Civic Arena during a community meeting on March 15, 2021. (Screenshot)
Buccini said he’s “of course open to conversation with the Hill CDC.”
But the term sheet – at least in the short term – only emphasized the divide.
“The development team has delayed deep engagement with the appropriate parties in the Hill District for many months,” said Milliones, “and now that they are in the final hours, they are scrambling to put together a term sheet that looks like it’s above and beyond the usual, when it is really business as usual.”
Here are key points the two sides addressed in separate interviews with PublicSource.
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