RIDC Launches New Website
Our new and improved website is here, featuring a fantastic redesign and enhanced functionality! Tenants now have an online portal to connect directly to our property management team. We have also added a searchable directory of our available properties, making it easier for potential new tenants and brokers to find available space and additional property […]
RIDC & NAIOP Pittsburgh Chapter President Pens Letter for Developing Pittsburgh
Check out NAIOP Pittsburgh Chapter‘s Spring issue of Developing Pittsburgh. The opening letter is written by Donald Smith, President of RIDC and NAIOP’s Pittsburgh Chapter. The issue highlights the Chapter’s 2019 Awards Banquet, where RIDC’s Tech Forge will receive an award for Best Tech Flex Development. The issue can be read in full here.
Tenant in the News: nanoGriptech Revolutionizing Adhesives
Great Our Region’s Business segment on RIDC tenant nanoGriptech! This innovative company is located in the Chocolate Factory building of our Lawrenceville Technology Center property.
Tenant News: HEBI Robotics Founder Awarded Most Prestigious Robotics Award
Congratulations to Howie Choset, founder of HEBI Robotics, who has received the 2019 Engelberger Robotics Award for Education, the world’s most prestigious robotics award! He is being recognized for his work in creating “CMU’s undergraduate robotics degree program, as well as his own research in multi-robot collaboration, surgery, manufacturing, infrastructure inspection and search and rescue” […]
Video: Mill 19 Rendering
Check out this fantastic video rendering of RIDC Mill 19, courtesy of MSR Design.
Innovation Pointe Building Construction Begins
Construction has begun on Innovation Pointe, a green 3-story spec office building at the RIDC Innovation Ridge campus in Marshall Township. Developer Innovation Center Associates and officials of Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) broke ground on the 90,000 square foot building in December 2018. It is scheduled to be completed and ready for tenant occupancy in […]
Tech Forge Named Best Tech Flex
Exciting news! RIDC’s Tech Forge was named Tech Flex Office of the Year by NAIOP and will be celebrated at their upcoming 26th Annual Awards Banquet on March 28. Congratulations to all the other winners! And The Winners Are… Speculative-Industrial 200 Solar Drive Build to Suit-Office Argo AI at 3 Crossings Renovation – Office 420 […]
Transforming Properties and Communities in the Rust Belt
RIDC and our Mill 19 project featured in Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal‘s 15th Annual Economic Development Spotlight. To read the issue in full: Click Here
New Low-Interest Financing from Wolf Administration to Support Renovation of Technology Center in Lawrenceville
ECONOMY, INFRASTRUCTURE, PRESS RELEASE Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf announced a new low-interest loan approval through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) program. The loan will support the renovation of the Lawrenceville Chocolate Factory, part of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s (RIDC’s) Lawrenceville Technology Center. The project will open the way for […]
Siemens, An RIDC Tenant, Celebrates Grand Opening of PGH Service Center
RIDC President Donald Smith gives introductory remarks at Siemens Pittsburgh Service Center grand opening Siemens Celebrates Grand Opening of Pittsburgh Service Center PITTSBURGH–Siemens today celebrated the opening of the company’s new 300,000-square-foot Pittsburgh Service Center (PSC), located in Mount Pleasant. The $32 million state-of-the-art facility was made possible by a capital investment from Siemens […]
What’s Happening At Mill 19?
You can read all the latest news coverage of Mill 19 and Hazelwood Green right here: Developers are harkened for major revitalization project in Pittsburgh RIDC thinking beyond Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green as Almono markets new RFQ Innovation Hub Seeks To Be Good Neighbor At Hazelwood Green Tech firm landing at Hazelwood Green. Could […]
Self-driving Cars Rev Up Pittsburgh’s Tech Sector
“To secure Pittsburgh’s ongoing place in the burgeoning AV industry, RIDC’s Smith urges more investment in CMU and other Pittsburgh-area universities and training programs; more site and facility preparation; and reduced regulations and other costs.
Phase A of Mill 19 Nears Completion
Phase A of the Mill 19 building in Hazelwood Green, which will house future tenants Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing and Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative, is quickly approaching completion! Check out the photos.
Revival of Old Industrial Buildings Can Symbolize Past, Present & Future Economic Prosperity
“When the city’s steel industry imploded in the late 1970s-early 1980s, it left behind large, unwanted industrial properties which, over time, led to neighborhood blight. The old bones of Pittsburgh’s industrial past are still there, but now they are being redeveloped to provide homes for a new type of industry—one that requires some level of manufacturing […]
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 […]
Geek Wire Highlights RIDC’s Support for Growing Pittsburgh Robotics Industry
RIDC’s support for the growing robotics industry in Pittsburgh was highlighted in Geek Wire article: Our robot neighbors: Hanging out with the mechanical inhabitants of ‘Robotics Row’. “The rise of Robotics Row is as much about real estate as it is tech. A lot of these companies need big open spaces for research, development and testing. Pittsburgh’s stock […]
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 […]
Carnegie Mellon hosts Groundbreaking at Mill 19
The site will be home to Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) and Manufacturing Futures Initiative (MFI) More than 200 guests gathered this past Monday at the Mill 19 site in Hazelwood for Carnegie Mellon’s debut of their future space inside. CMU recently signed a lease for two floors of the development that will be home to […]
Featured in NextPittsburgh and Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal
NextPittsburgh wrote a featured article about longtime Keystone Commons tenant, Intervala, because of a recently signed five-year expansion lease with RIDC. This brings their total occupancy to 135,000 square feet in the park. Read the article on the NextPittsburgh website by clicking here! The Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal also published the press release in […]
Donald Smith featured in Revitalization News
Guest Article: Entrepreneural, Non-Profit reuse of Abandoned Industrial Property In early October, RIDC President, Donald Smith was published on the Revitalization News site as a guest writer. Prefacing with the economic downfall of regions after the loss of heavy-industry companies that employed thousands; Don drove into the importance of having RIDC in Western Pennsylvania to […]
TechVibe Neighborhood Tour goes to Tech Forge!
“…I view our role as doing the projects where the public benefit is bigger than the private benefit.” The Pittsburgh Tech Council’s TechVibe Radio recently took the studio to RIDC’s newest development, The Tech Forge on 47th in Lawrenceville. Joining them at the still active work site was: RIDC President, Donald Smith, John Bares from […]
