A Moon company is planning to renovate the landmark Post-Gazette Building at the tip of Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle and build an office tower next to it, a company official said Tuesday.

Lisa Hurm, the Post-Gazette’s vice president and general manager, confirmed the sale of its former headquarters at 34 Boulevard of the Allies to DiCicco Development Inc.

The company is planning a multistory office tower in an adjoining parking lot, which also is included in the sale, according to Sam DiCicco Jr., a company partner. He said the existing building would be renovated for office space.

Neither DiCicco nor the Post-Gazette would disclose a sale price.

DiCicco said the company would improve the outside look of the existing building, but declined to provide details. He said plans would be released in the future.

“It’s an iconic Pittsburgh building both because of its history and its location,” said Dan Gilman, Mayor Bill Peduto’s chief of staff. “I look forward to meeting and working with the new developer to ensure that the design is held to the high design standards that this location deserves.”

The newspaper in 2015 moved its offices to the North Shore and its printing operations to a new location in Findlay near the Pittsburgh International Airport.

Until 1992, the building housed both the Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press, and was owned by Press publisher Scripps-Howard. The two papers worked out of the same building under a joint operating agreement until a union strike in 1992 shuttered both publications for eight months. The Post-Gazette purchased the Press following the strike.

Block Communication, the Post-Gazette’s parent company, purchased the building in December 1992 for $7.3 million, according to Allegheny County real estate records.

Hurm said the building was constructed of a light-colored brick in 1928 for the Press and once featured a Scripps-Howard lighthouse logo on its exterior. It was renovated during Pittsburgh’s first renaissance in the 1950s with a metal skin fastened to the brick exterior.

“Everybody who looked at the building and was interested in it saw that the it had really good bones,” Hurm said.

The building has been vacant since the Post-Gazette moved out.

John Valentine, executive director of the Downtown Community Development Corp., said he would have preferred that DiCicco renovate the building for housing, but an office building and tower would also serve the business district.

“There will be more space and more occupancy, and the more occupancy you get, the more vibrancy for Downtown,” he said. “I still believe it would be great if it was (renovated for) mixed-used residential, but it’s better than being vacant.”

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