Pittsburgh Revisits Convention Center Hotel Project
October 7, 2014
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it’s becoming the biblical Lazarus of downtown projects:
Left for dead a year ago, and several times before that, a proposed project to build a 500-room hotel attached to Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center (pictured) is once again being resurrected by top local political leaders.
The proposed hotel, which has been on the drawing board for more than a decade, has been in limbo for some time. It would supplement the existing 616-room Westin Convention Center Hotel located next to the convention center and connected by a sky bridge.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald have asked the Sports & Exhibition Authority to gauge interest in and to study the feasibility of the project.