Representatives of the AR Building Company are expected to seek preliminary approval soon from the Baldwin Borough Council regarding the development of three 50-unit apartments buildings on a vacant lot near the Route 51 cloverleaf, Baldwin engineer Larry Souleret said on Wednesday.
If and when given final approval by the Baldwin Council—and once built—the buildings would sit on a roughly 3.5-acre property in south Baldwin.
The property, according to the Allegheny County Assessment Web page, is owned by Nello Fiore of Whitehall Borough, and is located just north of the Baldwin-Pleasant Hills Borough border.
The Baldwin Council discussed the project during an agenda meeting on Tuesday night. Councilman John Conley, the chair of the borough's Zoning & Planning Committee, said at that meeting that the developers are aiming for the buildings to be four stories high.
Conley expressed concern over how traffic will increase if the buildings are opened.
"This will put a little more pressure on that narrow road where the railroad goes over top and there's one lane (Grace Street)," he said.
Grace Street is attached to Bliss Drive, which runs adjacent to the planned site.
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New construction is a good thing for the economy.
I really hope Baldwin government has enough brains to write something into an approval that the complex can never get section 8 approval. Everyone argues the only section 8 they take now at the hole next door is elderly. If a landlord is section 8 approved they can not pick and choose. All who apply can get in.>>> Jim, if I recall correctly the other place no longer takes ANY section 8, the reference to elderly there being on Section 8 is to people who have already lived there before this changed. They are not throwing out the elderly residents who are on Sec. 8, but they are not accepting ANY new secl8 residents.