University Place Office Building

In its final years of use by the university, the University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) was housed within the University Place Office Building. Established in 1972, the UCSUR serves as a resource for researchers and educators interested in basic and applied social and behavioral sciences and serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research and collaboration.{{cite web | url=https://ucsur.pitt.edu/about.php | title=UCSUR (@PittCSUR) - University of Pittsburgh Research Center }} Research of the UCSUR focuses on five principal areas including urban and regional analysis, survey research, qualitative data analysis, gerontology, and environmental decision support. The center also offers a graduate certificate in gerontology.{{cite web | url=http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/programs-projects.htm | title=UCSUR (@PittCSUR) - University of Pittsburgh Research Center }}

In early 2009 the center opened a multipurpose data center which is HIPAA and FISMA compliant. The UCSUR data center is monitored 24/7 by the UCSUR Information Technology department. The data center maintains a 99.3% up time as of the summer of 2010.

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University Office Place was demolished in August 2011, following the approval from the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission, to make way for a new $59 million, 10-story, 559-bed university residence hall, named Nordenberg Hall that was designed by Mackey Mitchell Architects of St. Louis along with the Pittsburgh-based firm MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni Inc.{{cite news|url=http://www.pittnews.com/news/article_d56922fe-085d-11e3-af9b-001a4bcf6878.html|first=Kathleen|last=Fennell|title=Welcome Back: New dorm completed, students move in|location=Pittsburgh, PA|date=August 19, 2013|access-date=August 20, 2013}} Nordenberg Hall, which opened for the 2013 fall semester, occupies the former footprints of 121 University Place and its former adjacent parking lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and University Place. Former University Office Place resident UCSUR was relocated to the Gold Building (3343 Forbes Ave).{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=17502 | first1=Peter | last1=Hart | first2=Kimberly K. | last2=Barlow | title=What's New: Places | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh, PA | date=2011-09-01 | access-date=2011-10-10}} Nordenberg Hall includes ground floor retail space, a university pharmacy, and a second floor student wellness and counseling center.{{cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11277/1179601-53.stm | title=10-story freshman dorm tops Pitt's building plan | first=Bill | last=Schackner | newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | location=Pittsburgh, PA | date=2011-10-04 | access-date=2011-10-11}}{{cite news | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10336/1107570-53.stm | title=Pitt gets approval to raze building for dorm | date=2010-12-02 | newspaper=The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | access-date=2011-02-09}}{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/pitts-new-nordenberg-hall-aims-to-prevent-isolation-699579|title=Pitt's new Nordenberg Hall aims to prevent isolation|first=Kaitlynn|last=Riely|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 16, 2013|access-date=August 19, 2013}} The residence hall also contains two sound-proof music practice rooms, and on the third floor, a fitness room and an outdoor rooftop terrace.{{cite news|url=http://triblive.com/news/education/4531321-74/hall-pitt-residence|title=Hall phones in new University of Pittsburgh dormitory recall earlier era|first=Debra|last=Erdley|newspaper=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|date=August 16, 2013|access-date=August 19, 2013}} The residence hall features {{convert|200|sqft|m2|adj=on}} double-occupancy rooms that are equipped with small refrigerators, microwave ovens, and flat-screen TVs. Communal social spaces, study lounges, and bathrooms were intentionally designed to encourage students to leave their rooms to interact with other students and gain a sense of connectedness. The residence hall was named in honor of Mark Nordenberg, the university's previous chancellor who retired in August, 2014.{{cite news | url=http://triblive.com/home/2844927-74/million-chancellor-fund-nordenberg-pitt-trustees-board-scholarship-hall-residence | title=Pitt trustees honor Chancellor Nordenberg with scholarship fund | first= Debra |last=Erdley | newspaper=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|date=2012-10-26|access-date=2012-10-26}}

University Place Office Building is the namesake and a location setting of a book published in 2007 by Louis Panesi entitled 121 University Place: A Father's Abuse / A Doctor's Love.{{cite book | last=Panesi | first=Louis | title=121 University Place: A Father's Abuse / A Doctor's Love- The Powerful Story of a Tortured Boy Who Prevailed With The Help of a Very Special Doctor | publisher=Pass It on Publishing | location=Pineville, NC | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-9792166-0-2}}

• {{cite book | author=Alberts, Robert C. | title=Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987 | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1987 | isbn=0-8229-1150-7}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120301021839/http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour-475.html University Place Office Building on Pitt's Virtual Tour]
• [http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu University Center for Social and Urban Research]

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