page_title: RIDC
section_title: Research Parks
hierarchical_section_title: RIDC / Research Parks
caption_attribution_description: Original flickr description These are the railroad tracks I was talking about in the previous photo. The building at left goes by the fully buzzword-compliant name of the Collaborative Innovation Center.
context_page_description: The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania--known colloquially as the RIDC--is a privately funded non-profit serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area to focus on a regional approach to economic development primarily through managing and rehabilitating area research and business parks for modern tenants. The RIDC was formed on August 8, 1955 as a non-profit corporation after area business, corporate, government and labor leaders supported a central agency responsible for developing and coordinating efforts to create new employment and economic diversity.
  As of March 2013 it is listed as the third largest commercial property manager in metropolitan Pittsburgh with 7,400,000 gross leasable square feet, behind only Oxford Development and CBRE Group while surpassing Jones Lang LaSalle.
context_section_description: RIDC provides development, finance and leasing of new and redeveloped research and business parks using a wide range of real estate development activities.  RIDC Research and Business parks are both new development and lab or industrial transfers from such corporations as Sony, Westinghouse and US Steel and include:  
  Bakery Square (2007 site preparation)
  Beaver Manor (since 1987)
  City Center of Duquesne
  Collaborative Innovation Center
  Glassport (historical involvement circa 1978)
  Industrial Center of McKeesport (since 1984)
  Innovation Ridge
  Keystone Commons (since 1893, RIDC since 1987)
  Lawrenceville Technology Park
  Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green
  Neshannock
  Park Lane (1988 site preparation)
  Park O'Hara (Giant Eagle headquarters)
  Park West (original home to USAirways Ops Center)
  Pittsburgh Technology Center (48 acres since 1984)
  Westmoreland
  Southpointe (historical involvement, 589 acres)
  Thorn Hill (900 acres started December 11, 1968)
  Tech 21 
  Non-RIDC Research and Business parks in the Pittsburgh area also include:
  University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center
  George Westinghouse Research Park
caption: The Collaborative Innovation Center (left), Carnegie Mellon University's Hamerschlag Hall (center), and railroad tracks in Pittsburgh.
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