Hazelwood Green’s first residential development will break ground next year, bringing 50 units to the 178-acre riverfront property.
But development partners like Diamonte Walker, CEO of the Pittsburgh Scholar House, say they’re not investing in a building or Pittsburgh’s next hot neighborhood. Instead, they’re investing in people.
“We’ve been having a conversation in Pittsburgh over the last decade about equitable development: What does it mean to develop places in a way … that honors what has already happened there, and allows people to be a part of the development versus the development simply happening to them?” Walker says. “It’s a planning process. If you think about people first — you think about the human beings at the intersection of what is happening — you get a different housing type.”