Lionstone, Walnut Capital Acquire Pittsburgh Athletic Association Building in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — Lionstone Investments and Walnut Capital have acquired the Pittsburgh Athletic Association clubhouse, a five-story vacant building in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The property was built in 1911 and had served as the clubhouse for the Pittsburgh Athletic Association since then. The building features Renaissance Venetian palazzo architecture, a bowling alley, basketball and squash courts and a third-floor swimming pool. The structure was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978. HFF brokered the sale of the building on behalf of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The buyers plan to refurbish the exterior of the building and convert the interior into 90,000 square feet of office space. Work on the property is expected to take 18 to 24 months.