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Task force gets funds to study extension of riverfront park
Tuesday, February 13, 2001 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
A city-county agency will provide $30,000 for a design study of a portion of Allegheny Riverfront Park, to run eastward from the new David L. Lawrence Convention Center into the Strip District.
The Sports & Exhibition Authority yesterday approved the money for work to be done by the Riverlife Task Force, a privately funded group overseeing development standards along the city's three rivers.
The area under study lies on the south side of the Allegheny River, stretching from the Ninth Street Bridge east into the Strip to the Veterans Bridge.
Part of the site lies between the river and the $328 million convention center, which is now under construction, said Davitt Woodwell, Riverlife Task Force executive director.
One aim is to do "a schematic design for that section of the riverfront park, to come up with an idea of what it might look like," he said yesterday.
He said the study would likely take two or three months and the new riverfront park would likely contain places where boats can tie up.
Working on the design study will be Alex Krieger, a Harvard University architecture professor and riverfront expert, who is currently an adviser to the task force; the landscape architectural firm Hargraves and Associates; and Michael Van Valkenburg, who, working for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, designed the existing riverfront park that extends from the Ninth Street Bridge westward past the Roberto Clemente Bridge.
Woodwell said the task force will consult with property owners in the stretch from the Ninth Street Bridge to the Veterans Bridge, including the Buncher Co., which owns a lot of land in the lower Strip District, and Seagate Technologies, a California maker of computer equipment that is building a new headquarters in the Strip near the Veterans Bridge.
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