Hotel could be part of project at former Saks site in Downtown Pittsburgh

AccorHotels | April 13, 2016

April 13--A luxury lifestyle hotel could end up on top of the 600-space parking garage being built at the site of the former Saks Fifth Avenue department store on Smithfield Street, Downtown. The 161-room hotel is a new wrinkle in the second phase of a development being proposed by Smithfield Oliver Partners, a partnership between Washington County-based Millcraft Investments and Downtown's McKnight Realty Partners. As originally planned, Smithfield Oliver had envisioned up to 100 residential units in a second phase to complement the garage and 30,000 square feet of street level retail space. Under the latest proposal, the developme...