Carlow taps new developer for campus center
Carlow University has hired a new developer to lead the effort to build a new interdisciplinary health and science center on its Oakland campus.
Maryland-based Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate was selected following a national search after the Elmhurst Group ended its involvement in the project.
The university made the announcement Thursday.
Edgemoor will spearhead the effort to build a 10-story, 400,000square-foot structure known as the Interdisciplinary Health & Science Center on a 1.7-acre tract near the entrance to its campus at Fifth Avenue and Robinson Street.
The center would house four new graduate health science programs — physical therapy, speechlanguage pathology, physician assistant and occupational therapy.
In addition, the site, located next to a planned Bus Rapid Transit station, will include a public plaza and increased green space, according to the university.
The development has generated some controversy because it includes the demolition of St. Agnes Center, a former church closed by the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese in 1993. The diocese sold the church and the rectory to Carlow in 1996.
Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation officials have urged Carlow to incorporate the church into the new building rather than raze it.
While St. Agnes is not a designated city historic landmark or listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is on the Pittsburgh Register of Historic Places, an official city document identifying buildings that should be preserved.
It also was given a plaque in 2000 by the Pittsburgh History & Landmark Foundation.
Carlow has said it would work with the state’s historic preservation office to see what architectural elements of the church could be & preserved.