Shiny, New Floor at the Keystone Common’s S Building
The S Building at Keystone Commons has a shiny, new floor! The entire building (184,000 SF) is vacant and ready for a new manufacturing company. Located on 700 Braddock Ave. in East Pittsburgh, PA.
Pictures: New Solar Powered Light Poles at RIDC Park West
Seven new light poles with solar powered parking lot lights have been installed at RIDC Park West, three with single heads and four with double heads, producing a total of 1,980 watts of power.
RIDC Tenant News: Seegrid Doubles Revenue for Second Straight Year
Seegrid Corp., the Carnegie-based developer of autonomous mobile robots for material handling, doubled its revenue in 2020, marking the second consecutive year with such an increase and anticipating similar growth in 2021. The company attributed the growth to increased demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Seegrid is a tenant in the Park West Industrial Park. […]
Beemsterboer Signs Lease for Slag Recycling Operation at Keystone Commons
Beemsterboer signed a multi-year lease with RIDC for space at Keystone Commons, the former Westinghouse complex in East Pittsburgh and Turtle Creek. The company is investing $5 million to convert an old employee parking lot onsite into a slag recycling operation. “Beemsterboer will take slag used in the blast furnaces at the Edgar Thomson plant […]
Aurora Confirms Deal to Acquire Uber’s Self-Driving Unit
[RIDC President Donald Smith] said he sees Aurora’s buy as a positive thing for Pittsburgh’s industry here, noting the company calls the city its headquarters in tandem with another office in California, something Uber never had done despite making major real estate commitments here. “I think it creates a larger stronger autonomous vehicle company based […]
Live Online Events: 1st Commercial Radio Broadcast Reenacted at RIDC Keystone Commons
Live from RIDC Keystone Commons: Nov. 2 – A reenactment of the first commercial radio broadcast, covering the 1920 Harding-Cox election and marking 100 years of radio, will be broadcast and streamed live online by the National Museum of Broadcasting and Duquesne University. Nov. 3 – Actual 2020 election updates will be broadcast and streamed live online […]
1920 to 2020: RIDC Keystone Commons is the Birthplace of Commercial Broadcasting
The broadcast industry’s 100th birthday is just around the corner. And RIDC Keystone Commons, formerly a Westinghouse complex, is the original site of the 1920 radio shack that made that inaugural commercial radio broadcast to Americans, announcing the results of the Harding-Cox election on Nov. 2nd. This was all at a time when, like today, […]
PBT Real Estate Quarterly: An Office Market in Flex
“Tech flex space, which includes offices along with room for R&D, is becoming a bread-and-butter need in Pittsburgh. It’s a development model inspired by seminal real estate development projects including Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green and Tech Forge in Lawrenceville, both projects by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania.” Article by Pittsburgh Business […]
Allegheny County to Open COVID-19 Testing Site in McKeesport
RIDC is proud to support the space needs for the new COVID-19 testing site in McKeesport – Tim White, Senior VP of Development. Please note, the drive-thru testing site opens Tuesday, September 15 and by appointment only. For more information: https://kdkaradio.radio.com/articles/allegheny-to-open-covid-test-site-in-mckeesport.
WPXI’s ON THIS DAY: July 14, 1988, Last Volkswagen Built at Westmoreland County Factory
“The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority took over the plant and then turned the property over to RIDC, which manages it today. RIDC has successfully leased out portions of the plant to different companies, totaling about 1,000 employees, along with the Advanced Technology Center of the Westmoreland County Community College.” Article by Matt Simmons, WXPI.
New Building Construction for RIDC Park West Occupants ConnectiveRX, KTA-Tator and VOLLMER Nearing Completion
The construction of four new buildings is nearing completion at RIDC Park West; two for ConnectiveRX, one for KTA-Tator, and one for VOLLMER of America Corp. In 2017, RIDC sold 7.5 acres of land in RIDC Park West to Burns & Scalo for development. Since then, Burns & Scalo has built two large office buildings […]
RIDC Provides No Cost Warehouse Sorting Space to 412 Food Rescue During COVID-19
We are providing no cost warehouse sorting space to 412 Food Rescue to support them in important work like this, getting food to vulnerable Westmoreland County residents impacted by COVID-19. East Huntingdon warehouse serves as stage for 412 Food Rescue
Life-Sciences Incubator Signs Deal for Lab Space in Lawrenceville Technology Center
Pittsburgh Business Times article can be read in full here. “LifeX Labs, a Pittsburgh-based incubator and accelerator for life science companies, will soon open the next step of its assistance to its biotech startup with lab space in Lawrenceville. About 5,000 square feet of wet-lab space will open in June for LifeX companies in the […]
Progress Photos: PurePenn McKeesport Facility
Steel is going up fast for the new PurePenn facility, which is located in RIDC’s Industrial Center of McKeesport, the former National Tube Works site.
Post-Gazette Reports Promising RIDC Prospects at the Carrie Furnace Site
Heating up? Sound stages, tech-flex buildings pitched for the reuse of the Carrie Furnace site
Over 30 Trees Planted at RIDC City Center of Duquesne
Last Friday, team members from RIDC, Tree Pittsburgh and KU Resources planted over 30 trees in the RIDC industrial park in Duquesne.
Community support: The importance of RIDC’s gift to the Urban League
A lovely opinion piece by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board. “No organization ever need be locked into a box, and RIDC proved itself to be more than just a real estate developer with this gift. The group’s creative thinking is the exact sort Pittsburgh will need to lift up families in need. RIDC’s donation also […]
Pittsburgh Business Times: National Player Targeting Sears Property in Lawrenceville
“Don Smith, president of the Regional Industrial Development Corp., which owns the nearby Lawrenceville Technology Center, a former steel mill property between 43rd and 48th Street in the neighborhood, said demand for space in the neighborhood continues to be ‘robust.’” – Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times Article can be read in full here.
Food Bank at City Center of Duquesne Expands With $1M State Grant
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank plans to double the amount of fresh produce it provides to needy people throughout Western PA by 2025. To make that possible, the Duquesne-based organization is planning a renovation of its facility in the RIDC industrial park, expanding its cold storage area, as well as its cold dock. Officials […]
New Crane Pick Replaces HVAC System on Maiden Voyage
The new RIDC crane pick makes its maiden voyage at Thorn Hill Corporate Center for an HVAC system replacement job.
Making Headway on Innovation Pointe Construction
Headway is being made on the construction of Innovation Pointe at the RIDC Innovation Ridge campus in Marshall Township. Developer Innovation Center Associates and RIDC officials broke ground for the green 3-story, 90,000 square foot spec office building in December of last year. Construction began this March. Innovation Pointe is scheduled to be completed and ready for […]
