Tech company Excelitas commits to moving global HQ to Pittsburgh's Strip District (Canonsburg: sales)

[anthony_c55]

A tech company is poised to move its global headquarters to Pittsburgh’s Strip District, showcasing the region’s continuing success at attracting high-tech businesses.

He said the company will create at least 250 jobs in Pittsburgh over the next four years as well as invest $2.3 million in the move. That is matched by a $2.3 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Excelitas also will be encouraged to apply for state research and development tax credits.

https://triblive.com/business/tech-c...trip-district/

[qwerty01]

Great news

[brickpatio2018]

I was just reading about the city of Pittsburgh and it hit me that with Carnegie Mellon and Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is more or less just one university short of having the same assets as North Carolina's Research Triangle (Duke, UNC, NC State).

If Pittsburgh could add another state university to serve science and engineering students who can't get into Carnegie-Mellon (and maybe Pitt also) - but are smart - and then if the State of Pennsylvania were to transition to a right-to-work state with no income tax, a la Texas and Florida, Pittsburgh almost certainly would become the next Austin or Raleigh-Durham.

These are changes that state leaders could make tomorrow morning at 8:30AM. I haven't yet been to Pittsburgh, but I keep reading that it's a better city than Portland, Oregon and that it now has a tech scene similar to Silicon Valley.

So this gets my mind thinking...wow, yet the Pittsburgh Metro area has been at a standstill or shrinking in population, despite all these assets. But the solutions are right in front of city and state leaders. With such incredible assets, Pittsburgh is just a couple of public policy changes away from being the next Austin or North Carolina Research Triangle. Incredible.

[armourereric]

RTP, like most of NC has a killer freeway system and a rapidly growing mass transit/ regional rail system

[Wells5]

While gaining Exelitas, the Pittsburgh area will probably lose the headquarters of Ansys currently based in Canonsburg. Ansys designs CAE/multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design. A Sunnyvale, CA company, Synopsys, is the buyer. The sales price is $35 billion.


Synopsys to buy engineering software firm Ansys in $35 billion deal (msn.com)

[_Buster]

Originally Posted by brickpatio2018

I was just reading about the city of Pittsburgh and it hit me that with Carnegie Mellon and Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is more or less just one university short of having the same assets as North Carolina's Research Triangle (Duke, UNC, NC State).

If Pittsburgh could add another state university to serve science and engineering students who can't get into Carnegie-Mellon (and maybe Pitt also) - but are smart - and then if the State of Pennsylvania were to transition to a right-to-work state with no income tax, a la Texas and Florida, Pittsburgh almost certainly would become the next Austin or Raleigh-Durham.

These are changes that state leaders could make tomorrow morning at 8:30AM. I haven't yet been to Pittsburgh, but I keep reading that it's a better city than Portland, Oregon and that it now has a tech scene similar to Silicon Valley.

So this gets my mind thinking...wow, yet the Pittsburgh Metro area has been at a standstill or shrinking in population, despite all these assets. But the solutions are right in front of city and state leaders. With such incredible assets, Pittsburgh is just a couple of public policy changes away from being the next Austin or North Carolina Research Triangle. Incredible.

Pittsburgh also has Duquesne and a number of smaller universities, in addition to CMU and Pitt.

https://www.duq.edu/