Mill 19 Tenant ARM Partners With WQED’s “Inquire Within” Library Program
How can libraries keep up? With local tech partners, via WQED’s Inquire Within
First look: RIDC prepares the first building within Mill 19 for occupancy
On Thursday, Pittsburgh Business Times commercial real estate reporter Tim Schooley toured the interior of Mill 19 with RIDC President Donald Smith and Senior Vice President of Development Tim White. Check out his story and photo gallery of the former steel mill. “The moment has all but arrived. By the end of next month, the […]
Mill 19 at Sunset
Atlanta Leaders Tour Mill 19
On Thursday, leaders from Atlanta toured Mill 19 as a part of the 23rd annual LINK (Leadership, Involvement, Networking, Knowledge) trip. This year’s program is visiting Pittsburgh. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, it’s different from previous trips as “organizers have decided to make the experience more intentional and more impactful by targeting certain lessons […]
Night Shot of Mill 19’s Stairways
It’s all coming together!
Video: Mill 19 Rendering
Check out this fantastic video rendering of RIDC Mill 19, courtesy of MSR Design.
RIDC to Invest $66 Million in New Development & Other Capital Projects in 2019
Pittsburgh, PA – February 25, 2019 – Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (RIDC) plans to invest $66 million in capital projects in the Pittsburgh region in 2019, including new development and upgrades to existing properties, said Donald F. Smith, Jr., RIDC’s President. “Developing Mill 19 and investing in other RIDC properties to position […]
Mill 19, Phase B Steel Erection Begins
We started steel erection today for the 2nd building at Mill 19 in Hazelwood Green. Phase B here we come!
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
How To Spot a Region’s Next Emerging Hot Spot
GlobeSt.com/Real Estate Forum article by RIDC President Donald Smith:
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 […]
