Drawing a Maturing Urban Workforce Outside the Central Business District
If a company wants to succeed in drawing — and retaining — a maturing urban workforce to urban fringe communities and beyond, it needs to focus on a location’s quality of life, high-level amenities, and sense of community. President Don Smith writes on this subject for Area Development: Drawing a Maturing Urban Workforce Outside the Central […]
How To Spot a Region’s Next Emerging Hot Spot
GlobeSt.com/Real Estate Forum article by RIDC President Donald Smith:
What Property Owners Outside CBDs Can Do To Attract Expanding Industries
“Start-ups and rapidly growing, early stage companies, especially those in exploding new industries like robotics and artificial intelligence, are typically attracted to space that’s centrally located within a city or is near its universities. Nevertheless, city center space is finite and often expensive. While this poses a challenge for young companies that need space that […]
Mill 19: An Industrial Hallmark of Pittsburgh’s Past, Present and Future
“With revival and reuse plans well underway, Mill 19 is becoming more than a reminder of Pittsburgh’s bygone industrial steel era. Steel beam by steel beam, it is being transformed into an industrial hallmark of the city’s, and the country’s, present and future economic growth and prosperity,” says RIDC President Donald Smith in his article […]
President Viewpoint: An agenda for growing Pittsburgh’s innovation economy
Considerations for growing and supporting Pittsburgh’s innovation economy outlined in Pittsburgh Business Times’ viewpoint by RIDC President Donald Smith.
Demand Rises for Emerging Tech-Flex Sector
President Donald Smith writes about the emerging tech-flex sector for the latest issue of Real Estate Finance & Investment Magazine. Tech Forge photos by Elliott Cramer and courtesy of Desmone Architects.
Building A Robotics Future in Pittsburgh
TEQ Magazine article “Building A Robotics Future In Pittsburgh From An Industrial Past” takes a look at the burgeoning robotics industry in the city from a commercial real estate perspective. Written by RIDC President Donald Smith, the article can be viewed on page 44 of the June issue or on page 23 of the digital […]
Pittsburgh Developer Taps into Emerging Flex-Industrial Sector
“Pittsburgh-based RIDC…is seeing a new type of property emerge in its core Pennsylvania markets: high-amenity flexible office-industrial space,” says Samantha Rowan in her recent article for Real Estate Finance & Investment Magazine. “The company, which works with a number of robotics-focused companies that include Carnegie Robotics, is seeing strong tenant demand for bicycle-friendly spaces with high-end coffee […]
Revitalizing Properties From Industrial Past For Robotics Future
Pittsburgh is rapidly gaining a reputation as a center for the robotics industry, creating products and technologies that will change our future economy and our lives with innovations ranging from driverless cars and unmanned drones to exciting advancements in the field of medicine. It’s fascinating to consider that “Robotics Row” started with the redevelopment and […]
Attracting Companies in Emerging Industries
What challenges do developers and landlords face when attracting companies in emerging industries? And are they prepared to take on those challenges? Companies in emerging industries like robotics in Pittsburgh need to feel they are working in partnership with those trying to attract them to their properties. Donald Smith writes about this and more in his latest […]
President Viewpoint: Incentives Make Sense When This Happens
Some thoughtful insights on incentives for business by RIDC President Donald Smith. His article was published by the Pittsburgh Business Times. “As the competition for Amazon has gotten more serious, some critics have taken aim at the incentives being offered by regions to attract this marquis company and the 50,000 jobs and potentially billions of […]
Donald Smith Talks Industrial Site Reuse in Revitalization News
“Communities all over the country are dealing with the aftermath of the loss of heavy industry and the jobs that went with it,” says RIDC President Donald Smith in his article for Revitalization News. “Huge buildings and campuses built for companies that employed thousands of workers now lay vacant, with a corresponding impact on tax revenues […]
Area Development Magazine Publishes Donald Smith’s Article
“A company as large and well known as Amazon creates its own center of gravity and can be its own magnet for talent.” Donald Smith has just appeared in Area Development’s latest issue, in a piece titled: “What Corporate Executives Need To Know When Making Location Decisions.” There are six checklist points that Don goes into […]
RIDC featured in Northeast Real Estate Business Journal
What happens when a developer is more concerned with supporting job creation and generating tax revenue than with increasing profits? The Northeast Real Estate Business Journal just released a new issue which includes an article about RIDC and features a number of properties including Lawrenceville Technology Center, Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green and RIDC Westmoreland. RIDC […]
Investors Repurpose, Revitalize Former Industrial Centers
“…tech-related companies that want access to talent streaming out of these universities is part of the puzzle…” RIDC President, Donald Smith, recently appeared in a Real Estate Finance and Investment article–discussing the mission and work of RIDC, while touching upon the industries that are helping revive the rust belt. Click below to read the article […]
Don Smith on Tech Vibe Radio
RIDC President joins Tech Vibe radio as guest speaker Recently, Don Smith joined the Pittsburgh Tech Council for the second time this year as a guest speaker on the segment. A number of topics were covered including: the new Tech Forge on 47th development, how our current and future projects honor the mission that we have […]
