How We Can Be Partners of Growth of Pittsburgh’s Tech Industry
Article by President Don Smith for the Nov./Dec. 2018 issue of Breaking Ground. The issue can be read in its entirety here.
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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 …
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 …
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 …