Please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the

nice and following for which one nation under God.

Indivisible with the injustice problem.

Thank you.

Do you know believe there are any registered comments for this evening?

So with that, um, first item on our agenda is actually a presentation by uh Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

Before we move into the presentation, I just wanted to uh couple housekeeping notes, I guess, if you would.

Um, one is that the borough has already been partnering with PRT for actually a couple years and trying to talk about how we're doing transit-oriented development in the borough and made changes to our zoning code of several years ago to be able to entertain um projects um similar to the ones that are being brought before us.

And so wanted to highlight that first of all, but also wanted to note that this isn't a project approval that what we're doing today is giving a presentation on the planning discussion proposed items related to the PRT and TOD.

Sorry, I said that backward related to the TOD from PRT and the proposed developer.

Um, and this just allows us at the end of the day to

make

a decision to move forward to enter into an exclusive negotiation to try to come up with a plan that benefits the borough and all of our residents and uh PRT as well.

And so with that, I will uh ask Amy Silverman from PRT to come up to the microphone.

If you would please just press the button for the red and we'll turn

over

the uh

program to you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, and thank you all for having us tonight.

My name is Amy Silberman.

I'm the chief development officer at Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

We're really happy to be here and talk to you all about uh the project that we've been chatting with your staff on over the last year or so.

Um, so we have a few folks from our team who are gonna uh tag team the presentation here this evening.

Um,

and I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself and also note that uh we'll be here after the meeting too.

So if anyone wants to just come chit-chat any further or ask any further follow-up questions directly of the PRT team, um, we are around every time.

With that, I'm going to uh introduce Maura Egler.

Mora is our manager of transit oriented communities uh here at PRT.

In that role, she oversees our transit-oriented development program, our public audit program, as well as planning work around station redesigns and station improvement projects.

So lots of exciting stuff happening in her team, uh, and we're really happy to have her here today to talk to you about uh our DRB project.

All right.

Do I have to push?

Okay, great.

All

right, thanks, Amy.

Um, like every like she said, my name is Maura Egler.

I am the manager of transit-oriented communities at PRT.

Um, and I'm also the project manager on the Dormont Junction TOD project.

Do you

okay?

Yeah, thanks.

Next slide.

Okay, so just for a little bit of background, um, this project came out of the Dormont Junction station area plan that PRT completed in 2019.

That was a coordination with the borough and extent had extensive community input.

The plan redesigned Dormont Junction station itself and also kind of reimagined what a transit-oriented development or TOD might look like on the property adjacent to the station that's jointly owned by PRT.

We own the park and ride, and then of course the borough of Dormont owns the parking lot that fronts onto West Liberty Avenue.

Um, so that's where this project originated.

Um we sort of agreed that we would jointly develop the site as one large 2.5 acre site.

Um, we would develop the site as joint landlords under a long-term lease agreement so that we would remain the owners of the property.

We would not sell either of the properties to a developer, but um approach this as a ground lease.

Um, we would also development would take place after the reconstruction of the station itself.

Um we have kind of a brief timeline here on the right.

Uh I'll go through this in detail a little bit later, but this just shows you that you know, we've started kind of thinking about this project.

It's been an idea since at least 2019.

Um, and then in 2021, the borough updated the zoning code to sort of help make this type of development a little easier, reduce the bird, the kind of regulatory burden.

Um 2022 to 24, we've been designing the Dormont Junction station, which is now fully designed.

Um, and then in 2023, we were issued a request for letters of interest from developers.

That was basically to solicit informal interest in the site, kind of do some ground truthing to see you know what the interest was in the development community, and based on that, we did a COD feasibility study in 2024 where we did a market analysis that kind of showed us what the market conditions were, more of a financial analysis to see what would be possible on the site, and then last year we jointly released the RFQ and RFP with Dormont for the developer development teams, and then 26.