Welcome to RIDC

The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (RIDC) is a private, non-profit organization that focuses on a regional approach to economic development. Established in 1955, the RIDC was formed to foster new employment opportunities and to diversify the regional economy of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Through a wide range of real estate development activities, RIDC provides development, finance and leasing of new and redeveloped buildings and stands ready to assist the growth of businesses throughout the Pittsburgh region.

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RIDC Impact

The City Center of Duquesne was once home to the Duquesne Steel Works, which opened in 1886 and employed over 8,000 people.  The plant closed in the 1980s.  RIDC acquired the site and started remediation in 1990.  RIDC has renovated five buildings, and four new buildings have been constructed.  Today, the RIDC City Center of Duquesne is home to 14 companies, employing nearly 650 people.

Recent News

Old Sony plant site of new growth (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4.25.13) 

Japan's DNP growing and adding jobs at former Sony plant (Keystone Edge, 4.18.13) 

Big Changes Could Be Coming for Pittsburgh's Riverfronts (KDKA News Story, 3.13.13) 

Robotics spin-out leases Heppenstall building (Pittsburgh Business Times, 3.13.13)

RIDC Westmoreland tenant Aquion Energy "set to start large-scale production of batteries" (Pittsburgh Tribune, 2.24.13)

Made in Pittsburgh: Inside the DNP Expansion (Pittsburgh Business Times, 2.8.13)

RIDC O'Hara celebrates 50 years (Pittsburgh Tribune, 1.25.13) 

Pittsburgh's Three Rivers, Now a Public Attraction (New York Times, 1.22.13) 

RIDC has high interest in Hazelwood (Post Gazette, 1.24.13) 

Holtec makes big expansion at Keystone Commons (Pittsburgh Business Times, 1.11.13)

URA Board approves preliminary TIF plan for Almono development (Pittsburgh Business Times, 1.11.13) 

RIDC sells 260 Alpha in O'Hara Park (Pittsburgh Tribune, 12.18.12) 

RIDC sells building to candy-maker Tsudis. (Pittsburgh Business Times, 11.27.12)

Aquion secures $10M loan guarantee from USDA (Pittsburgh Business Times, 9.18.12)

RIDC to improve business park (Pittsburgh Tribune, 9.7.12)

Thorn Hill Industrial Park: From Workhouse to Workplace (Cranberry Township, August, 2012)