Connecting Leaders. Creating Opportunity.
Economic growth doesn’t happen by chance.
It requires business leadership, strategic investment, informed policy, and regional alignment.
The Pittsburgh Regional Alliance brings together the people, organizations, and ideas that help Southwestern Pennsylvania compete, grow, and create opportunity across all 10 counties.
Economic Competitiveness
Building the conditions for long-term growth
The most competitive regions don’t simply react to change. They prepare for it.
The Pittsburgh Regional Alliance works with leaders across business, education, philanthropy, labor, government, and economic development to strengthen the conditions that support investment, innovation, and economic growth. We help align efforts around the issues that matter most to employers, communities, and the regional economy.
See our areas of focus below.
Advancing Policies That Support Growth
Our investor-driven advocacy efforts reach issues ranging from creating a strong foundation for business growth to workforce development to industry-specific policies. In short, we champion a competitive business climate across the Commonwealth to strengthen the economy and drive job creation in our region.
Each year, our government affairs team evaluates the local, state, and federal landscape to identify strategic opportunities that advance our region’s economic growth, competitiveness, and quality of life. This process shapes our annual advocacy playbook and guides our efforts throughout the year. With a pro-growth delegation at every level of government, these priorities are more critical than ever for shaping a strong, healthy economy across our 10-county region.
Our advocacy is grounded in partnership and a commitment to making the Pittsburgh region a model for economic resilience and opportunity.
Federal Policy
We advance growth-oriented tax, funding, and redevelopment policies while streamlining permitting processes to fast-track key infrastructure and economic development.
State Policy
We boost PA’s economic competitiveness by advancing pro-growth incentives, streamlining permitting, and strengthening key foundations like energy, workforce, and infrastructure.
Local Policy
We drive sustained growth across Greater Pittsburgh by modernizing zoning and permitting, expanding housing and mixed-use development, and investing in critical infrastructure.
Growth in Action
Across the Greater Pittsburgh Region, organizations are investing, expanding, innovating, and creating new opportunities. These success stories represent the power of collaboration and demonstrate what is possible when business leaders, institutions, communities, and partners work together. Here
Making an Impact in our Region
Our Downtown Matters.
While all downtowns have historically been, and continue to be, strong foundations for cities, the pandemic forced the world to adapt in countless ways. Urban cores are experiencing similar issues and are responding creatively to how they attract and retain investment and people.
Allegheny County, City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, and 100+ downtown stakeholders have partnered to revitalize downtown Pittsburgh.
Goals
Advance downtown Pittsburgh’s revitalization to create a future downtown that is vibrant, attractive, and welcoming to all residents, employees, and visitors.
Reliable, affordable energy is essential to economic growth.
The Pittsburgh Regional Alliance helps shape a vision for the region’s energy future, forging key partnerships and securing critical funding to create a thriving economy for southwestern Pennsylvania. While greater reliance on technologies like artificial intelligence has supported our innovation economy, it has also increased the demand and cost for power generation. This has created new challenges to our region’s energy reliability and security. If not addressed, this increasing demand threatens our region’s quality of life and the growth of our economy. That’s why energy is a big bet.
We can turn a projected energy shortfall into an economic development opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania.
With increasing demand for power generation, Pennsylvania is facing potential energy shortages. In fact, we are projected to face electricity shortages by 2030 due to the expected retirement of 40 GW of existing thermal generators and the slow pace of new generation construction. More reliable baseload generation is required to maintain grid stability that is critical to regional prosperity.
Our Approach: Build Now and for the Future
By addressing energy security issues in a proactive and strategic way, we position the region as a global energy leader and keep energy as a key economic driver. We aim to leverage our region’s abundant natural resources, technology advancements, and expertise to expand clean and reliable baseload generation through advanced nuclear reactors and natural gas. This approach leverages a complex energy challenge and turns it into an economic development opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania.
Our strategy is built on three pillars: policy, investment, and marketplace.
Brighter futures with opportunity for all.
The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative is an 11-county coalition formed to apply for the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. The Collaborative includes 90+ organizations: community-based organizations, labor unions, educational and research institutions, economic development partners and leaders from the private, public and philanthropic sectors.
Click here to learn more about the New Economy Collaborative.
Help write the region’s next chapter
Schedule a conversation today and join the organizations helping shape the future of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
