In partnership with Pittsburgh Gateways, Inc., Pittsburgh Green Innovators is establishing a sustainable facility that supports a superlative quality of life and serves as this city’s emerald jewel by redeveloping the former Connelley Vo-Tech High School located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. It engages multidisciplinary teams from business, labor, government, nonprofits, and universities, as well as experts from around the world who employ the science of sustainability to meet modern global challenges and provide world-renowned leadership in clean, green innovation.
Green Innovators energizes this region by advancing a blended economy that uses the best of Pittsburgh’s work ethic and skilled labor to position this region as a global leader in sustainability. Objectives of Green Innovators include: education for the consumer, maintaining an adequate and appropriately trained green collar workforce, growing new companies, developing and promoting new technologies, and supporting research in all related fields. The building itself will be a demonstration and keystone of Pittsburgh’s strength in environmentally global thinking. This physical space will support education and training, and university research and development efforts — engaging multinational corporate interests, specifically in the growing market sector of green business. The currentfacility is an existing, underused school building being retrofitted to become highly functional and environmentally friendly.