CMU approved to build Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green

Backed by a major gift to support the $90 million project, Carnegie Mellon University now has full city approval to establish a 150,000-square-foot research presence at Hazelwood Green, and the university expects to start construction soon on a needed facility for robotics research.

The board of the Pittsburgh Planning Commission voted unanimously on two measures to approve CMU's new Robotics Innovation Center (RIC), enabling the university to move forward with its first development project at the mixed-use master plan at Hazelwood Green.

"This will be Carnegie Mellon’s first building that we’re building at Hazelwood Green," said Bob Reppe, an assistant vice president and university architect for the university, in the presentation before the commission.

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