\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWork is nearly complete on a new state-of-the-art community field and youth recreation complex at Hazelwood Green that will be operated by Steelers Charities and branded with the Pittsburgh Steelers logo.”It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been a really great process throughout,” Pittsburgh City Council member Barb Warwick said.VIDEO ABOVE: Sky 4 flies over the new field at Hazelwood GreenThe facility will host youth football, clinics with Steelers players, soccer games, and indoor sports and recreation activities.A local youth football team is one of the organizations set to benefit.”This field is going to be for youth sports, the Hazelwood Cobras, which are our local kids’ football team,” Warwick said.Hazelwood Green is located on the site of the former LTV Steel Pittsburgh Works and spans 178 acres directly across the Monongahela River from the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex.”It’s an area that’s been depressed since steel mill time, and it needs an injection of energy and business,” said Jason Short, who owns Abstract Realm Brewing next door.Local businesses are optimistic about the field’s impact on the community.”We’re really excited about not only the exposure it’ll give us, but obviously the area and the community,” Short said.”We’re hoping that this is just the beginning of a floodgates kind of opening for the whole little area,” said Nathan Johnston, who works next door.It has not yet been released when the field will officially open.The project was made possible by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, which awarded Steelers Charities $10 million for construction.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Work is nearly complete on a new state-of-the-art community field and youth recreation complex at Hazelwood Green that will be operated by Steelers Charities and branded with the Pittsburgh Steelers logo.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been a really great process throughout,” Pittsburgh City Council member Barb Warwick said.<\/p>\n
VIDEO ABOVE: Sky 4 flies over the new field at Hazelwood Green<\/p>\n
The facility will host youth football, clinics with Steelers players, soccer games, and indoor sports and recreation activities.<\/p>\n
A local youth football team is one of the organizations set to benefit.<\/p>\n
“This field is going to be for youth sports, the Hazelwood Cobras, which are our local kids’ football team,” Warwick said.<\/p>\n
Hazelwood Green is located on the site of the former LTV Steel Pittsburgh Works and spans 178 acres directly across the Monongahela River from the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
“It’s an area that’s been depressed since steel mill time, and it needs an injection of energy and business,” said Jason Short, who owns Abstract Realm Brewing next door.<\/p>\n
Local businesses are optimistic about the field’s impact on the community.<\/p>\n
“We’re really excited about not only the exposure it’ll give us, but obviously the area and the community,” Short said.<\/p>\n
“We’re hoping that this is just the beginning of a floodgates kind of opening for the whole little area,” said Nathan Johnston, who works next door.<\/p>\n
It has not yet been released when the field will officially open.<\/p>\n
The project was made possible by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, which awarded Steelers Charities $10 million for construction.<\/p>\n
Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work is nearly complete on a new state-of-the-art community field and youth recreation complex at Hazelwood Green that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2475,2088,60,9967,524,15896,23609,73638,56266,73642,73641,73,75,74,1833,73645,73644,3622,1829,73643,26214,73639,73640],"class_list":{"0":"post-162969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-acre","9":"tag-area","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-clinic","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-field","14":"tag-hazelwood","15":"tag-hazelwood-cobras","16":"tag-hazelwood-green","17":"tag-jason-short","18":"tag-local-youth-football-team","19":"tag-pittsburgh","20":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","21":"tag-pittsburgh-news","22":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","23":"tag-soccer-game","24":"tag-span","25":"tag-steeler","26":"tag-steelers","27":"tag-steelers-player","28":"tag-youth-football","29":"tag-youth-rec-complex","30":"tag-youth-recreation-complex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}