Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh plans to expand with a $45 million event venue

PITTSBURGH – The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has introduced plans to expand with a $45 million occasions venue.

The leisure venture is a part of the museum’s ‘Pop District’ initiative and could be constructed on an present museum parking space, in accordance to Dan Law, the museum’s affiliate director. Museum officers offered plans for the venture to town’s Planning Commission on Tuesday.

The proposed website online could be round 58,000 sq. ft (17,500 sq. meters), together with a first-floor live performance venue with status room for up to 1,000 folks, a second-floor mezzanine, and an occasions area that would hang up to 360 folks at the fourth surface. The 3rd surface could be used for workplaces and improve areas.

Rick Armstrong, a museum spokesman, mentioned paintings at the venture may just start once spring 2024, however the timelines are “still flexible” because the venture strikes in the course of the making plans and design processes.