By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times
Apr 16, 2020, 5:15pm EDT
The development team of the Pittsburgh Penguins is working to stay on schedule with building FNB Financial Center on the former Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill.
Kevin Acklin, senior vice president of the Penguins, and Boris Kaplan, vice president of Buccini/Pollin Group, the Penguins’ chosen developer for the arena site redevelopment, updated the board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh on progress on the $200 million office tower, which is soldiering on despite a nearly worldwide business shutdown from COVID-19.
“There’s certainly been an important response underway to the COVID-19 virus. We expect that to continue in the public sector and in our private real estate circles,” Kaplan said. “Despite those uncertain conditions, we still expect to bring the project forward in the second half of this year.”
The briefing was part of an additional level of a public process the URA board established with the Penguins at a previous meeting as the team provided notice of its plan to “take down” or buy the property from the URA and the city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority.
The briefing came with no voting measure as the Penguins and BPG expect to seek preliminary approval for the plan to buy the site for the tower from the URA board and the SEA in May. The Penguins are striving to bring the tower before the Pittsburgh Planning Commission in July and hope to begin construction by the end of the year.
With Gensler chosen to design the building, the Penguins and BPG have revised the building plan a bit since they announced that F.N.B. Corp. (NYSE: FNB) would establish its headquarters in the new tower in December.
Kaplan said the building is now expected to rise 26 stories, versus 24 floors previously, and total 435,000 square feet of office space, an increase from the 389,000 square feet previously.
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