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Following are examples of completed Design Fund projects.

Residential

 

Denny Row
Historic exterior restoration of 9 townhouses in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s Northside. 

Grant Amount: $6,000
Project Cost: $500,000
Architect: IAS
Grantee: Allegheny West Civic Council


Project Sheet PDF

 

Spinning Plates
Historic renovation of a former car dealership created 26-30 units of housing for low- to moderate-income artists, gallery and communal space. 

Grant Amount: $10,000
Project Cost: $4.4 million
Architect: Landmarks Design Associates
Grantee: Artists and Cities

Project Sheet PDF

 

Clarendon Place
14 units of deteriorating 1910 row houses were converted into 10 for-sale townhouses. 

Grant Amount: $7,500
Project Cost: $1.2 million
Architect: Loysen + Kreuthmeier
Grantee: Friendship Development Associates

Project Sheet PDF

 

Rippey Street Habitat Houses
3 units of new housing built by Habitat for Humanity on two vacant lots in the neighborhood of East Liberty. 

Grant Amount: $3,000
Project Cost: $450,000
Architect: IAS
Grantees:  East Liberty Development, Inc. & Mellon’s Orchard Neigbhorhood Association

Project Sheet PDF

 

Sojourner House
16 units of both renovated and new, permanent supportive housing for transitional mothers through the Sojourner House Moms Program.  6 renovated units are complete. 

Grant Amount: $18,000
Architect: Rothschild Doyno Architects
Grantees: East Liberty Development, Inc. & Negley Place Neighborhood Alliance

Project Sheet PDF

 

 

New Birmingham
32 units of new energy-efficient riverfront housing on Pittsburgh’s South Side.

Grant Amount: $5,000
Project Cost: $4.1 million
Architect: Perkins Eastman
Grantee: South Side Local Development Company

Project Sheet PDF

Commercial

 

 

West End Bank Building
Renovation of former West End Savings & Trust Company building. 

Grant Amount: $10,000
Project Cost: $1.5 million
Architect: IAS
Grantee: West Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

Project Sheet PDF

 

Photo Antiquities Museum
Design for future renovation of a former Spring Garden social hall for its reuse as a museum of historic photography. 

Grant Amount: $10,000
Architect: Maynes Associates
Grantee: Spring Garden Neighborhood Council

Project Sheet PDF

Mixed-Use

 

 

5430 Penn Avenue – Quiet Storm
After having a nuisance bar closed, the neighborhoods of Friendship and Garfield undertook a renovation of the building that now is home to the Quiet Storm coffee house and second floor apartments.

Grant Amount: $6,200
Architects: Desmone & Associates, Tai + Lee Architects, & EDGE studio
Grantee: Friendship Development Associates

Project Sheet PDF

Union Project
Renovation of the former Union Baptist Church into a facility for community activities, art classes, worship services and performance. 

Grant Amount: $12,000
Project Cost: $1.6 million (to date)
Architects: Desmone & Associates & Mike Eversmeyer, Architect. 
Grantee: Union Project & Highland Park CDC

Project Sheet PDF

Parks, Open Space, and Neighborhood Planning

 

 

Town Square
A community master plan for East Liberty’s Town Square. 

Grant Amount: $10,000
Architect: Semple Brown Design
Grantee: East Liberty Development, Inc.

Project Sheet PDF
 

Lawrenceville Community Plan
Lawrenceville’s first neighborhood-wide community plan. 

Grant Amount: $12,250
Architect: Pfaffmann + Associates (with Brean Associates and Valentina Vavasis, Consultant)

Project Sheet PDF
 

South Side 10 to 1 Trail
A master plan for a missing link of the South Side trail, from approximately 10th Street to 1st Street. 

Grant Amount: $7,500
Project Cost: $90,000 (to date) 
Architect: Klavon Design Associates
Grantee: Friends of the Riverfront

Project Sheet PDF

Perrysville Charles Development Strategy
A strategic plan for the redevelopment of a key intersection in the Perry South neighborhood.

Grant Amount: $10,000
Architect: Design Alliance Architects
Grantees: Perry Hilltop Citizens Council

Project Sheet, PDF

Kirkpatrick Park
A landscape, urban design and park master plan for a interconnected series of greenspaces, public art and streetscape improvements in the Hill District. 

Grant Amount: $12,000
Architect: Klavon Design Associates
Grantees: Find the Rivers! & Hill House Association

Project Sheet PDF

 

Lawrenceville Riverfront Access Project
A development strategy for Lawrenceville’s riverfront with a focus on kayak/canoe access and improvements to an existing trail. 

Grant Amount: $5,000
Architect: Pfaffmann + Associates
Grantees: Lawrenceville Corporation, Lawrenceville United, & Lawrenceville Stakeholders

Project Sheet PDF

 

 

Alpine Tot Lot
Landscape design for a new playground in Central Northside. 

Grant Amount: $3,000
Project Cost: $50,000
Architect: Klavon Design Associates
Grantee: Central Northside Neighborhood Council

Project Sheet PDF

 



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