<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div class="" style=""><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/04/27/daily59.html?t=printable">http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2009/04/27/daily59.html?t=printable</a></div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style=""><img src="http://assets.bizjournals.com/story_image/238048-0-0-1.jpg" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Goodwill President and CEO Mike Smith, and Burns & Scalo Principal Jim Scalo at a press conference earlier today.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial; "><div align="center" text-align="" class="" style=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody></tbody></table></div><div id="story" class="" style="text-align: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-right-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div class="storydate" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/18px arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Thursday, April 30, 2009, 3:05pm EDT | Modified: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 3:27pm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div></span></div><div class="" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial; "><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal bold 30px/33px arial; width: 948px; text-transform: none; ">Goodwill, Burns & Scalo make partnership official</h1><div class="subhead" style="font: normal normal bold 13px/normal arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><h3 style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/13px Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-transform: none; ">Pittsburgh Business Times - by <a id="byline" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/search/results.html?Ntt=%22Tim%20Schooley%22&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial" style="color: rgb(35, 75, 135); text-transform: none; ">Tim Schooley</a></h3></span><div id="storycontent" class="" style=""><p align="" class="" style="">Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania and Burns & Scalo Real Estate Services Inc. made official their partnership to find the long-time South Side nonprofit organization a new home and redevelop its current headquarters, a 153,000-square-foot former J&L department store building on Carson Street.</p><p align="" class="" style="">Goodwill hosted the press today to confirm its relationship with Green Tree-based Burns & Scalo, which made public its plans to convert the seven-story structure into an apartment building of between 60 to 70 units, along with street-level retail.</p><p align="" class="" style="">“We decided on an action plan with Burns & Scalo, and we’re confident we can get there,” said Mike Smith, president and CEO of Goodwill, which has operated out of the building for more than 40 years. “Today we find ourselves at a crossroads regarding our surroundings.”</p><p align="" class="" style="">Goodwill initiated a request-for-proposal process last fall to choose a developer that can both help it find a new facility in which to move its administrative operations and then eventually buy its collection of Carson Street properties that include both its main building as well as some surrounding parcels, excluding Goodwill’s store.</p><p align="" class="" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: arial; "><div id="story" style="text-align: left; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-right-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-bottom-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div id="storycontent"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Smith emphasized again that Goodwill’s current facilities are costly and inefficient to maintain and would be too expensive to upgrade, putting out an open call for suggestions of potential new locations.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Jim Scalo, a principal of Burns & Scalo, looked forward to helping Goodwill to further its mission with a new headquarters and eventually buy and redevelop its property. He described the building as “made for apartments” that he tentatively plans to redevelopment into one and two bedroom units rented at market-rate prices, with parking provided underground. Scalo gave a rough estimate that such a redevelopment would cost between $12 million to $15 million.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">“The building is clearly the jewel of the South Side,” said Scalo, who believes the project may be eligible for historic tax credits.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">First, however, Burns & Scalo must help Goodwill find a new home, a quest that so far has proven elusive due to the nonprofit’s need for a one-floor facility to best accommodate its host of disabled clients that is close to ample public transportation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Its major challenge is an urban environment because of the mismatch of city neighborhoods well served by public transportation are typically too densely developed to have newly built facilities that offer 100,000 square feet on a single floor that Goodwill is seeking.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">“The challenge is great because they’re looking for the Cinderella’s slipper,” Scalo said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Because of that unknown, Goodwill’s relationship with Scalo is so far a partnership, with no agreements of sale for any property.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Mayor Luke Ravenstahl pledged to help in the process if needed, with potential assistance for the <a class="story_clink" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/gen/Urban_Redevelopment_Authority_22604D984CCF4F3695B958E9A22F75B7.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><strong>Urban Redevelopment Authority</strong></a>.</p></div><br clear="all"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 15px/20px Georgia; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "><i><a href="mailto:tschooley@bizjournals.com">tschooley@bizjournals.com</a> | (412) 208-3826</i></p></div><br clear="all"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; "><i><br></i></div></span></p></div></div></body></html>