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Nov 3, 2021 _ news
Rustbelt Meets Silicon Valley: New Coworking Space Opens at the Roundhouse at Hazelwood Green
After hosting a series of celebratory events – the grand finals of the Pittsburgh Startup Challenge in July, building tours through August, and Green Building Alliance’s annual gala in September – the Roundhouse at Hazelwood Green is officially open.
Built in 1887 to help move locomotives and their freight through the sprawling J&L Steel Mill, the Roundhouse will now act as a coworking space for technology accelerator, OneValley.
Once a key component of Pittsburgh’s industrial economy, the Roundhouse is set to become a hub of innovation within the new, knowledge economy. Designed for connection, GBBN approached the building with a light touch – cleaning its historic brick and heavy timber roof deck so the building’s users could sense its history. At the same time, the design team creatively repurposed its industrial relics such as its turntable, its crane, the skeleton of a shed to provide innovators with moments of relaxation and inspiration.
“The Roundhouse is a milestone in the redevelopment of Hazelwood Green,” according to developer, Almono LP. “Over the last 19 years… (the 178-acre, former steel mill) has seen an investment of more than $100 million by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, and Heinz Endowments to remediate and prepare the former brownfield for sustainable and equitable development.”
Want to learn more about the Roundhouse? Check out our case study here.
You can also read news coverage of the Roundhouse’s opening from NEXTpittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The Roundhouse has also won Retrofit Magazine’s Metamorphosis Award. Read about that here.
