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A FULL-SERVICE CIVIL ENGINEERING FIRM 412.921.4030 GatewayEngineers.com | Spring 2016 05CON President's MessageTENTS 33 Developer Profile Continental Real Estate 06 Feature Developing the Riverfronts 39 Developing Trend Is the Multi-family ride coming to an end? 43 Eye On the Economy 49 Office Market Update CBRE 55 Industrial Market Update Newmark Grubb Knight Frank 61 Capital Markets Update 67 Legal / Legislative Outlook 21 2016 NAIOP Pittsburgh Awards Understanding Pittsburgh’s proposed riverfront overlay. 71 Benchmarks Job creation in Pittsburgh and its peer cities. 77 Voices Engineers discuss the slowdown in natural gas exploration. 79 News from the Counties People / Events 25 Development Project 88 3 Crossings www.developingpittsburgh.com 3 PNC REAL ESTATE | Successful commercial real estate owners, developers and investors can envision the properties of the future — even before the first sketch is made. PNC Real Estate shares that vision. 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It was a great This information is carefully gathered and com- year, but it went so fast and we have piled in such a manner as to ensure maximum much more to do. Brian Walker accuracy. We cannot, and do not, guarantee NAIOP Pittsburgh President either the correctness of all information furnished nor the complete absence of errors and omis- This year, I’m very thankful to have sions. Hence, responsibility for same neither can another year to serve as your President. be, nor is, assumed. We will finish what we started on the advocacy side, continuing to push Keep up with regional construction forward with our aforementioned task and real estate events at www.buildingpittsburgh.com forces. We were in Washington, DC in February to continue to fight for our key local and national issues of our members. I urge you to visit www. naiop.org to see the 2016 National advocacy agenda. We will be back to www.developingpittsburgh.com 5 feature 6 DEVELOPINGPITTSBURGH | Spring 2016 feature t started with the rivers. When you consider the topography of Western PA, there certainly weren’t many other reasons to stop and settle along the steep hillsides and forests of Pitts- Iburgh. But the watersheds that created the rivers that meet in Pittsburgh (and McKeesport too) gave life to the region, and eventually to indigenous tribes and settlers from Europe. “The rivers were the first superhighways. We fought a war over them, the French and Indian War,” notes Tim White, senior vice president of development for the RIDC of Southwestern PA. “The railroads were the next superhighways. Now it’s vehicle traf- fic but there is still a tremendous amount of material moved by rail. When people say riverfronts, you need to think of them as highway exits. Where riverfronts were developed, it was to give access to the river and the railroads.” www.developingpittsburgh.com 7 feature The master plan