Year in Review
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2016 Year in Review Strengthening Pittsburgh, Building Excellence TABLE OF CONTENTS Mission ......................................... 1 Land Sales & Park Jobs/Companies ........ 10-11 Letter from the President & Board Chair .......... 2-3 Park Acreage & Square Footage ...................12-13 Board Members & Financials ... 4-5 Our Properties ................... 14-17 Our Impact & By the Numbers .......................6-7 Park Updates & Tenant Updates .................18-19 Our Parks & Leasing + Land Sales .............................8-9 OUR MISSION Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania catalyzes and supports economic growth through high quality job creation, real estate development and the financing of projects that advance the public interest. Through public, private and institutional partnerships, RIDC develops real estate to ensure the region can capture emerging and existing growth opportunities across diverse industry sectors. 2016 Year in Review 1 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT This past year, RIDC worked to enhance our regional Union Switch & Signal building. The new millennium partnerships and broaden RIDC’s impact across the pushed the focus back to downtown living and RIDC was SWPA region. With the success of the partnership among the first to construct downtown housing with the between RIDC and Westmoreland County Industrial development of The Penn Garrison luxury apartments. Development Corporation to redevelop the former Sony Soon after was our investment in the Lawrenceville section Plant, we have a model that we hope to replicate in other of the city, beginning with the conversion of the Chocolate counties around our region. RIDC has met with economic Factory into space for tech companies. This was followed development agencies and government officials to by the award-winning conversion of the “Heppenstall discuss projects in which we can join forces. We look Blue Building” into a state of the art facility for Carnegie forward to new partners assisting us as we explore Robotics. Today, RIDC’s work continues in Lawrenceville as opportunities in our region that have the potential to we complete construction of the 64,000 sq. ft. Tech Forge grow and that we can help strengthen. building which is an energy efficient, multi-tenant flex high- bay and office facility and will be completed Summer 2017. Today, Pittsburgh is experiencing significant economic growth in the tech-related sectors. We are pleased that Additionally, RIDC acquired 12.5 acres at the Almono RIDC has helped finance and house companies in these development in Hazelwood to convert the 140,000-square industries, many of whom are closely connected to our foot Mill 19 building into a 250,000 square foot, one- region’s universities. Through our support of the spin- of-a-kind space. This site will house advanced additive Donald F. Smith, Jr., PhD, President out companies from these universities, and by preparing manufacturing and robotics research, testing, and training their future spaces, RIDC has been investing in the City of focusing on technological advances being created in the Pittsburgh for over 30 years. nearby universities. Due to this impressive listing of past and future investments made by RIDC, Pittsburgh can offer In the early 1980’s, RIDC established incubator facilities in spaces that meet the needs of 21st century companies. Corporate Officers the Oakland area—University Technology Development Donald F. Smith, Jr., PhD, President Center 1 & 2—and constructed the Software Engineering This year, RIDC also took on the task of better sharing Institute as well as the Magee Research Center. In addition our story and mission. Partnering with Skinny Tie Media, Timothy White, Senior Vice President, Development to those projects, RIDC also constructed and managed RIDC produced videos about our work, our tenants, and Mark Wessel, Senior Vice President, the Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC) on Carnegie our impact. We hope you enjoy taking the time to read, Operational Strategy Mellon’s campus. We played an integral role in the early listen, and watch the ways RIDC is advancing our William Kirk, Jr., Vice President, brownfield redevelopment of the Pittsburgh Technology region’s economy. Real Estate Operations Center (former J&L Steel Mill), including the construction Adarryl Dreher, Associate Vice President, of the 2000 Technology Drive office building and the Development Finance & Asset Management Colleen Poremski, Corporate Secretary 2 RIDC Strengthening Pittsburgh, Building Excellence LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR For RIDC, 2016 was a year of continued progress on Using that same approach for the Almono site in existing projects while finalizing and beginning new Hazelwood, RIDC completed many key site development opportunities and developments. Pittsburgh has milestones before shifting gears and focusing on been experiencing an influx of interest and economic implementation of the 140,000-square foot Mill 19 advancement from many sectors - heavily focused on building as well as the 12.5 acres that it sits on for high-tech and robotics as well as autonomous vehicles. development. These achievements included: signing Taking advantage of this regional growth opportunity Uber to the first revenue lease on site bringing the test brought upon Pittsburgh, RIDC has partnered with track, visitors, companies and funding for Mill street key companies - such as Uber - to help fulfill our mission- to the partnership; receiving the largest Tax Increment based work. Financing (TIF) in City of Pittsburgh history at $80M; over $13M in grant funding, along with over $15M in low Over the course of 60 years, RIDC has proven that it is interest loan funding; and Signature Boulevard’s design, a pioneer for brownfield redevelopment and a strong funding and construction (the largest complete street in leader in tough projects through successfully revitalizing Pittsburgh). high-risk sites. The lack of immediate profit and return discourages other developers to acquire giant projects As RIDC focuses on the year ahead of us, we look such as RIDC’s impressive rejuvenation of Keystone forward to remaining a forerunner for economic G.Reynolds Clark Commons in East Pittsburgh/Turtle Creek and the former development in Southwestern Pennsylvania through our Board Chair Sony Plant in Westmoreland County. The communities ongoing and new developments. While Pittsburgh and surrounding these manufacturing plants suffered surrounding counties become a destination for high-tech economic devastation and job loss when they closed and robotics companies, we plan to continuously evolve until RIDC stepped in to bring life back to those regions. our already broad spectrum so that as a community and as a city, we can keep up with the ever-changing industries that drive our economies forward. 2016 Year in Review 3 RIDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mark Aloe, Managing Member, Aloe Brothers LLC The Honorable Rodney D. Ruddock, Chairman, Board of Commissioners, Indiana County Charles T. Blocksidge, PhD, Retired Executive Director, Local, County & State Government Relations & Special Projects, Community College Audrey Russo, President and Chief Executive Officer, of Allegheny County Pittsburgh Technology Council Sara Davis Buss, Esquire, Campbell & Levine, LLC Darrell E. Smalley, Principal, State and Local Tax, Ernst & Young LLP Eric Cartwright, Vice President, UPMC Corporate Construction and Real Estate Donald F. Smith, PhD, President, RIDC G. Reynolds Clark, Retired Vice Chancellor, Community Initiatives, Samuel J Stephenson, CPA, Retired Partner, ParenteBeard LLC Chief of Staff, University of Pittsburgh The Honorable Daniel J. Vogler, Chairman, The Honorable Rich Fitzgerald, County Chief Executive, County of Allegheny Lawrence County Board of Commissioners Steven J. Guy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kris Volpatti, Senior Vice President, KeyBank Real Estate Capital Oxford Development Company Dennis Yablonsky, Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Hannon, Executive Vice President/Chief Credit Officer, PNC Bank Allegheny Conference on Community Development Scott D. Izzo, Director, Richard King Mellon Foundation Dennis M. Joyce, Managing Director, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation Mark Jay Kurtzrock, President, The Neighborhood Academy Timothy P. McNulty, Associate VP for Government Relations, Carnegie Mellon University Louis V. Oliva, CCIM, SIOR, Executive Managing Director, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Robert B. Pease, National Development Corporation The Honorable William Peduto, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh J. William Richardson, Retired, Chief Financial Officer 4 RIDC Strengthening Pittsburgh, Building Excellence 2016 FINANCIALS SOURCES OF FUNDS Rent & Proceeds from Financing Grants Other Reimbursements Property Sales, Net 48% 31% 15% 5% 1% USES OF FUNDS Property Development Debt Service & General & Real Estate Professional Maintenance Expenditures Line of Credit Administrative Taxes Fees & Utilities 47% 19% 14% 10% 8% 2% 2016 Year in Review 5 RIDC AND OUR IMPACT 7M+ Square Feet Owned Buildings Owned 48 4,953 Jobs in our Tenant’s Facilities Total Companies in our Facilities 92 $3.3M+ Annual Real Estate Taxes Paid 6 RIDC Strengthening Pittsburgh, Building Excellence 2016 BY THE NUMBERS Capital Square Feet Acreage Investment Renewed Sold $19.5M 238,892 12.63 Square Feet Number of New New Financing of New & Expansion Leases Secured Expansion Leases 2 $30.5M 651,983 2016 Year in Review 7 RIDC INDUSTRIAL & BUSINESS PARKS RIDC Industrial Park Beaver Industrial