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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Steel Goes Up at Mill 19
Early last week, the first batch of steel arrived at the Mill 19 building in Hazelwood Green and the first column was erected. Now, over 30% of the steel is up.
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 […]
First Mill 19 tenant signs with RIDC
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute and CMU’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative to be first tenants at RIDC’s Mill 19. PITTSBURGH, PA – As part of an agreement between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC), the university will lease two floors, or approximately two-thirds, of the 94,000-square-foot Mill 19 building. The […]
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 […]
Carnegie Mellon University Signs with RIDC
Carnegie Mellon University will be the first Mill 19 tenant CMU has signed with RIDC as the first tenant of the Mill 19 building on the Hazelwood Green site. The facility will be home to two advanced manufacturing initiatives founded by CMU-Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM) and Manufacturing Futures Initiative (MFI). They will be […]
Almono is now Hazelwood Green
Mill 19 is now located on the Hazelwood Green Site At the Big Tent event in Hazelwood on October 13th, Pittsburgh city officials announced that the formerly-known Almono site has been renamed to “Hazelwood Green.” The name change is part of an effort to unite the former steel site with the Hazelwood community. Work has […]
Groundbreaking at Almono Site
Groundbreaking for the Hazelwood Complete Street in Almono ALMONO announced groundbreaking for the first major construction project at the Hazelwood development that was held Friday, October 30 at 11:00 am near the intersection of Hazelwood Ave and Old Second Avenue. The $27 million construction of the Phase 1 infrastructure will provide a new riverfront […]
New building taking shape
Construction in Duquesne continues to progress! Some of you may have seen construction of a new building while riding the Great Allegheny Passage through Duquesne. Construction of the new 30,000-square-foot Millwrights Building is moving along and will be done at the end of the year. The project began in early summer and has continued to progress. […]
Hazelwood plays host to Thrival music festival
Over 11,000 people flock to Almono site The Almono site in Hazelwood, a 178-acre former coke works site, was host to 25 bands on September 25&26. The concert was located alongside a large former Mill building with views of downtown and Oakland. As quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Years from now people might not remember […]
Construction of New Road and Utilities Beginning
The Almono Phase 1 Infrastructure Plans have been approved for construction. Thank you to the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and their related agencies on their efforts to move the Almono Hazelwood development forward. On-site work is scheduled to begin in October. This $25 million Phase 1 infrastructure project includes: New […]
ALMONO Construction Start Nears
Almono is happy to announce they went out to bid on the Phase 1 infrastructure work earlier in June. The final permits are in motion, and the team feels confident that the project will have them in hand before awarding the bid. This project, which will include a complete street, main utility trunk, and green infrastructure, […]
Carnegie Robotics
In 2014 RIDC started building out the former Heppenstall building, which is a 30,000 square-foot former industrial high-bay facility. The building is now a state-of-the-art space for Carnegie Robotics, a spin-out of the nearby Carnegie Robotics National Center (NREC). Much of the build-out, which totaled $3 million, was financed and managed by RIDC. The space features mezzanine […]
