How To Spot a Region’s Next Emerging Hot Spot
GlobeSt.com/Real Estate Forum article by RIDC President Donald Smith:
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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 …
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 …
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. …
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 & …
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 …
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 …
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, …