Carnegie Robotics Buys Blue Building HQ in Lawrenceville

Carnegie Robotics has purchased its Lawrenceville headquarters, the Blue Building at 4501 Hatfield Street, from the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The sale of the 50,000-square-foot building and its four-acre site closed October 22, 2026.

Carnegie Robotics has occupied the building since 2014 and exercised a pre-existing option to buy. The purchase price was not disclosed. The deal is the first sale from RIDC's Lawrenceville Technology Center, which also includes the Chocolate Factory and TechForge.

The Blue Building was formerly part of the historic Heppenstall Steel Company. RIDC acquired the brownfield in 2002, remediated it, and redeveloped the site, earning national recognition from CREDA (formerly NAIOP) in 2017 as a leading adaptive reuse project. The work was supported by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, and RIDC's Manufacturing Loan Fund.

The building is a defining landmark of Pittsburgh's Robotics Row.