Pitt presents vision for BioForge manufacturing hub at Hazelwood Green

The University of Pittsburgh’s vision to transform part of Hazelwood Green into a modern biomanufacturing hub came into further focus at a Tuesday meeting.

Construction of a cell- and gene-therapy facility, dubbed BioForge, is slated to start this fall but the university must first receive approval from the City Planning Commission. The university began that process on Tuesday by briefing the commission on the plan to create a 68-foot-tall building totaling 185,000 square feet. 

The proposed site neighbors Mill 19, which houses Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Institute, and is near a site where CMU will build a robotics laboratory.

The projects are part of the 178-acre Hazelwood Green site that CMU and Pitt, with the help of local foundations, have targeted for modern research and manufacturing. 

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