CMU and RIDC made an announcement yesterday that the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute and the Manufacturing Futures Initiative would take about 60,000 square feet of the 94,000 square foot first building at the Mill 19 building at Hazelwood Green. Mill 19 is the creative re-use of the last remaining mill structure at the former J & L Steel works (now also formerly known as Almono). This lease wasn’t exactly a well-kept secret but it is one more piece of economic good news for Pittsburgh, especially given that ARM’s main goal is to spin out technology that will result in other new companies. Construction of the core and shell for the building will be done by Turner Construction, which is also doing preconstruction for the CMU tenant improvements.

In Lawrenceville a similarly-named project is getting underway. PJ Dick is starting construction on Mill 41, a 75,000 square foot office building being developed by Fort Willow on the site of a former mill.  At the Shell plant in Monaca, Bechtel awarded Turner Construction the $9-10 million rail buildings package that bid last spring. One week after AHN announced its major capital program, the hospital system is taking proposals from Graziano, Jendoco, Landau, Rycon and Turner for a 60,000 square foot, $20 million cancer center at the Forbes Regional campus in Monroeville.