Federated selects architects for Pittsburgh project.CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996--Federated Department Stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , Inc. said today it has selected the architectural firm An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture. History Architects (master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. of Cooper Carry Cooper Carry is a US-based design firm providing architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design and environmental graphic design. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in[ [Alexandria, Virginia]]; New York, New York; and Newport Beach, California. & Associates, Inc. as lead architects for the new Lazarus department store and underground parking garage planned for downtown Pittsburgh. Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. said Cooper Carry, headquartered in Atlanta, will be working on design plans for the new $45 million project in conjunction with Graves & Associates, a minority-owned architectural firm based in Pittsburgh. The design will include a four-story, 250,000-square-foot department store, which will be built atop a three-level, 550-car underground parking garage at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street. The board of the Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporation is slated to meet tomorrow to review and act on approval of the contract for design of the parking facility. Meanwhile, Federated said it is working with the Cooper Carry and Graves firms on preliminary architectural designs This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. for the store itself, and expects to have initial schematics for review by local Pittsburgh officials sometime in the next several months. The new Lazarus store in downtown Pittsburgh currently is expected to open in the fall of 1998. The city has said it expects to begin demolition of buildings on the Fifth and Wood site later this year, paving the way for construction to begin on the garage facility. Federated, with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , is one of the nation's leading department store retailers, with annual sales of more than $15 billion. Federated currently operates more than 400 department stores and 150 specialty stores in 36 states, operating under the names of Bloomingdale's, The Bon Marche, Broadway, Bullock's, Burdines, Emporium, Goldsmith's, Jordan Marsh Jordan Marsh was the name of a Boston, Massachusetts-based department store. Founded in 1841 and eventually part of Allied Stores and then Federated Department Stores; in 1996, the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were renamed Macy's. , Lazarus, Macy's, Rich's, Stern's, Weinstock's, Aeropostale and Charter Club. (NOTE: Information on Federated and its operating divisions, including copies of past press releases and corporate background data, also is available by calling Fax-On-Demand at 1-800-853-9150.) CONTACT: Federated Department Stores, Inc., Cincinnati Media - Carol Sanger, 513/579-7764 Investor - Susan Robinson, 513/579-7780 |
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