Earlier this week Burns & Scalo Real Estate announced its plans for a 150,000 square foot office – called The Riviera – in the Pittsburgh Technology Center. That office park is getting an interesting boost from the new Hotel Indigo that is under construction.

City Planning Director Ray Gastil believes that the hotel will bring a change in dynamics to the PTC and spark development of other types of properties. The city’s planning commission is looking at two other projects of interest this week. Walnut Capital submitted plans for a $6 million renovation to a former car dealership building at Craft Place and the Boulevard in Oakland. PJ Dick is the project’s contractor. And Matthews International revealed its plans to add 18,000 square feet and renovate its North Side headquarters. Turner Construction is the CM for Matthews.

In project news, Massaro Corp. was awarded the $3 million new entry at UPMC Presbyterian University Hospital and the Mercy Hospital ERC behavioral health projects. UPMC will have the economic impact report for its $180 million UPMC South presented to South Fayette Township supervisors tonight. Proposals for the CM services should go out after the township approves the project later this summer.

University of Pittsburgh is taking proposals from Mascaro, Turner, A Martini, PJ Dick, Volpatt, and Rycon on its new $26.5 million life sciences building at the Greensburg campus. St. Clair Hospital will release its $10 million-ish physical plant building for bids again by the end of the month.