A 120-year-old office tower Downtown will get new life as affordable housing soon.
Why it matters: Downtown Pittsburgh is full of vacant and aging office buildings as the neighborhood slowly crawls out of its pandemic lows.
- Officials are bullish on converting those offices into housing to help refill the neighborhood.
Driving the news: Renovation began Tuesday on 4 Smithfield St. to convert the 12-story office building into 46 housing units, 39 of which will be affordable to low-income residents…