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Another repurposed property, the Roundhouse, is fully occupied by a Silicon Valley-based tech incubator with international reach. It already features the country’s biggest single-roof solar installation. Mill 19, the massive LTV Steel remnant, now contains offices for tech firms and nonprofits, such as Carnegie Mellon University’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute and Manufacturing Futures Initiative. Three of the city’s biggest foundations made a big bet on this gigantic, polluted, abandoned steel mill property more than a decade ago - and it is paying off. If you want a glimpse of Pittsburgh’s future, encased inside the rusting remnants of its past, look no further than Hazelwood Green. Rendering of Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green (a hub for local robotics) courtesy of RIDC.

Decades of contentious negotiations have yielded a commitment from the site’s owner (the Penguins), the developer (Buccini/Pollin Group) and FNB to invest up to $40 million into the rest of the Hill District. More than 1,000 residential units are planned, as well as a major music venue operated by Live Nation, a hotel, and 190,000 square feet of retail. There are mountains of dirt at the former Civic Arena site that are moving, too, as the 26-story, $240 million headquarters tower for First National Bank (FNB) becomes the most obvious component of this development and the newest addition to the Pittsburgh skyline. This slow-moving behemoth has made advances that will start to show this year if you count the park-like “cap” over I-579 - which has just been completed and will become green this spring. Now, the city has a chance to right this historical injustice and reconnect Downtown with its closest neighbor. The once vibrant Hill District was severed from Downtown by the Civic Arena and its oceans of asphalt parking lots that sparked decades of decline. Rendering of First National Bank headquarters courtesy of Gensler.

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