Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission on Tuesday permitted The Andy Warhol Museum’s new $45 million leisure venue within the metropolis’s North Shore.

The 57,776-square-foot entertainment venue on Sandusky Street is slated to incorporate a first-floor live performance venue with standing room for as much as 1,000 folks. Plans offered to the fee additionally confirmed a second-floor mezzanine and an occasions house that would maintain as much as 360 folks on the fourth ground. The third ground is designed for workplaces and help areas.

The website is at the moment an asphalt parking zone for the museum.

The new leisure venue is a part of the Warhol’s Pop District initiative, which goals to incorporate “physical and programmatic expansion of the museum,” mentioned Dan Law, the museum’s affiliate director.

Law referred to as the brand new occasion house “the cornerstone of The Warhol’s reimagination of the eastern North Shore.”

Rick Armstrong, a museum spokesperson, estimated that work may start on the $45 million venture as quickly as spring 2024.

Commissioners Dina Blackwell, Jean Dick and Sabina Deitrick voted to approve the measure. Other commissioners had been absent or abstained from the vote.

Commissioner Peter Quintanilla, who abstained from the vote however participated in a dialogue concerning the proposal earlier than the vote was referred to as, voiced issues over the constructing’s exterior design.

“It feels more like an office building than something that’s celebrating Andy Warhol,” he mentioned.

Another North Shore proposal initially set for a Planning Commission vote Tuesday was delayed until mid-November. A developer trying to install a large LED video screen that would show Pirates games close to PNC Park is predicted to reappear earlier than the fee throughout its subsequent assembly on Nov. 14.

When the proposal was first introduced earlier than the fee earlier this month, commissioners and employees with town’s Department of City Planning voiced issues about whether or not the 916-square-foot display can be seen from I-279.

The Chicago-based structure agency Barker Nestor, which is spearheading the venture, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.