ōLiv Highland (Core Pugh Street Development)

State College, PA

The PennTerra team began brainstorming with Core Spaces in 2021 on this six-story student housing project that will be located at South Pugh Street and East Foster Avenue in downtown State College, Pennsylvania. With demolition beginning in June of 2022, construction of the nearly 300,000 square foot building is expected to be completed by June of 2024.

Plans for this 1.939 acre site include over 150 units, as well as seven duplex-style units with direct, ground-level access via East Foster Avenue. The main entrance will be at the corner of South Pugh Street and Highland Alley, offering an entry to the building's first floor lobby, leasing office, and amenity terrace, as well as the ground-level parking and access to the underground parking (over 250 spaces, total). There will be electric vehicle charging stations, as well as 160 bicycle spaces.

"This is one of the first larger buildings that has come in with what I consider an adequate number of bicycle parking spaces," State College Borough Planning Commission member Jon Eich said. "It's a very high demand amenity in this community."

Special attention was also given to the project's open space - offering several public/private terraces. Since the entire building will be dedicated to housing, it will provide a somewhat unique design feature of first-floor units and terraces.

There will be over 5,700 square feet of green roof space to assist with stormwater management. To date, this is the largest green roof space that PennTerra's team has helped design.

Core Spaces is thinking "green" in several ways. Their team members visited the Penn State Arboretum to get a sense of native plants that might be used in the project's landscaping plans. Core Spaces' sustainability program includes working with their Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) engineer partners to provide projects with high-efficiency systems that can even track the building's utility and waste metrics, then make suggestions for improvements. Looking ahead, Core Spaces plans to implement real-time carbon footprint data to their tenants, paired with a way to purchase carbon offsets.

The PennTerra team is excited to work with Core Spaces again on their second new-construction project in State College! (Learn more about the Hetzel Street project here.)

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