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Tower Two Sixty

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Type
  
Mixed-use

Opening
  
2016

Developer
  
Millcraft Investments

Floor area
  
1 ha

Architecture firm
  
Arquitectonica

Construction started
  
2013

Completed
  
2016

Floor count
  
18

Opened
  
2016

Cost
  
104 million USD

Owner
  
Millcraft Investments

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Location
  
260 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Similar
  
Market Square, Tower at PNC Plaza, River Vue, Oliver Building, 525 William Penn Place

Tower Two-Sixty, alternatively known as “The Gardens at Market Square” or “The Gardens,” is a Millcraft Investments skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Construction began in 2013 and was substantially completed in 2016. The $107 million, LEED CS Silver-certified tower consists of 18 floors and is located the Market Square and Point Park University sections of Downtown Pittsburgh. The tower includes a 197-room Hilton Garden Inn Hotel and Market Square Garage, 321-car parking complex managed by Alco Parking.

It includes 20,000 square feet of street level retail space, 130,000 square feet of Class-A "tower office" floor space and multiple restaurants.

Revel + Roost , previously known as Roost Fifty New American Kitchen, is a two-floor restaurant. Roost hosts upscale dining on the second floor, while Revel has an ultra-lounge atmosphere downstairs. Pirata is another restaurant tenant, offering Caribbean-style food and more than 200 rums. Pizzuvio , a fine casual Neapolitan pizzeria with handmade wood-fired ovens, is also located in the tower. Millie’s , a second location Pittsburgh-based small batch ice creamery originating in Shadyside.

In 2015, it was announced that commercial real estate company JLL would be the building’s anchor and namesake tenant, and re-identify the building as JLL Center at Tower Two-Sixty. JLL also serves as the building’s property manager. Other tenants in the building include Merrill Lynch, Coury Financial Group, McGuireWoods, and Millcraft itself .

Millcraft, JLL, and its partners have received several awards for Tower Two-Sixty including the Urban Land Institute award for Transformative Place , Master Builders’ Association of Western Pennsylvania Award, NAIOP Pittsburgh’s Best Mixed Use Project .

References

Tower Two-Sixty Wikipedia