UPMC hopes for new 17-story bed tower in Oakland to ‘become a new beacon for the skyline’

PITTSBURGH — UPMC is preparing to build on the former site of Children’s Hospital in Oakland with what’s expected to be the neighborhood’s biggest project in years.

The health system, working with HGA, a Minneapolis-based architecture firm, presented its plan for a new 17-story bed tower at 3701 Fifth Avenue in Oakland to the Pittsburgh Planning Commission for a site now mostly occupied by a lawn amid the dense university and medical development of the university district.

Roger Altmeyer, a vice president of project development for UPMC, told the commission during the Zoom meeting that the project is driven by a need for private patient rooms, which he said UPMC Presbyterian lacks.

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