Pittsburgh Magazine: Start with a sea of mud near the bank of a river. It’s hardly inspiring — not yet. But add some tax-credit magic and a dash of pixie dust. Voila: Pittsburgh really will be Hollywood on the Mon by 2024.
Ground was broken late last year on the construction of film studios at RIDC Carrie Furnace along the Monongahela River in Rankin, right next to the historical blast furnaces.
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Pittsburgh is one of the top 10 big cities for filmmaking and I am not surprised that it is. Every part of this city has culture, but it also tells its own story. Squirrel Hill looks very different from Downtown which looks very different from Pitts Campus and so on. The way that Pittsburgh has been used before to film multiple different films is incredible, but it also made me wonder why there isn’t a bigger film industry in the city. I am excited to see that a studio will be put in and finally film companies won’t just have to use the streets of Pittsburgh and random warehouses around the city. This studio could change Pittsburgh for the better and bring artists, filmmakers, and designers to Pittsburgh who never imagined they would be on the east coast filming for a big movie. Now if only the weather would improve, then I would think this would be the perfect place for the next Hollywood. This article made me excited to see how the Pittsburgh film industry will change the city in the coming years
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