Owner to demolish the Wholey building in the Strip District

The former New Federal Cold Storage building in the Strip District could make way for a new tower that would rank among the city's biggest buildings.

 

By Tim Schooley  – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — The lighted fish is set to sink.

The ownership of the New Federal Cold Storage building at 1501 Smallman confirm they are pushing forward with a plan to demolish the block-sized relic of a structure to make way for a new 21-story office project.

Matt Cassin, a partner of New York-based JMC Holdings, said the company has issued a Request for Proposals to hire a contractor to demolish the 336,0000-square-foot structure, best known to Strip District visitors as the Wholey building, with its fish-festooned sign on the side and three-foot-wide concrete walls.

[ Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times. ]

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