Where mills once sat along the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood, a sprawling development now stands as a symbol of the shift from a steel town to a city built on education, medicine and technology.

Dubbed Hazelwood Green, the onetime brownfield is situated on 178 acres of riverside property. It will house Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Innovation Center and a biomanufacturing facility launched by the University of Pittsburgh.

As Pittsburgh embraces a new identity in the 21st century, one focused on innovation and technology, city leaders say that transformation has helped drive how development has looked in recent years — and what it will look like in the future.

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Trib Live | Julia Burdelski