Coming Soon to Hazelwood Green: A World-Class Vision for the Community

Center of Life’s Community Hub will be a transformative, community-serving facility designed to address the diverse needs of Greater Hazelwood residents. Featuring a LEED-certified, net-zero-energy design, the Hub will provide sustainable infrastructure and will host a comprehensive suite of programming, including all of Center of Life's educational, arts, extracurricular, family strengthening, and enrichment offerings for students, teens, parents, and community members.

Proposed partnerships with organizations such as the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center (COTRAIC) for early childhood education, the University of Pittsburgh’s Community Engagement Center and Nursing School, and Primary Care Health Services, Inc. (PCHS) will extend the Hub’s reach, providing critical services across health, education, and community development.

COL’s hub at Hazelwood Green will serve as a community eco-system that will facilitate the success of an underserved neighborhood by providing vital in-house programs and services and partnering with and engaging Hazelwood Green organizations in the everyday life of the community. Our goal is for every child and family to have the opportunity everyone deserves — to cultivate and achieve their potential, regardless of their ZIP code, background, or wealth status.

Read our most recent press release at the following link: Center of Life_H.G_Press Release.pdf

Putting People At The Center Of It All.

Center of Life has served the Hazelwood community for over 20 years, seeing the evolution of this growing neighborhood and creating a sense of security for all those who live and work here. Journey with us through a legacy that continues to inspire the hearts and minds of families, artists, and leaders across the City of Pittsburgh and around the world!

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Hazelwood Community Feedback Session Part 2 is on April 23, 2025

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"Almono is proud to support Center of Life in its development of the COL Hub at Hazelwood Green. The Almono members have long recognized the need for, and supported the Hazelwood neighborhood in its desire for deep interconnection with this historic brownfield site. Almono and COL, as a community-based organization dedicated to empowering youth and families, have for many years collaborated in programming to ensure that this physical, social, and economic community connection gets stronger every day. Almono and COL will continue working together in ways that honor our shared development goals."

-Todd Stern, U3 Advisors, Development Advisor to Almono, L.P.
“I take pride in sharing how valuable this organization is and take pleasure in being able to work collaboratively together with them. I have placed my own children into the care of this organization and it’s been such a wonderful opportunity for my children to glean from them [...] that which will take them not just a few steps ahead but continue to be a building mechanism for their travels as they continue to walk their journey through life [...] They are indeed an asset to the lives of those living in the community.”

-Rev. Michael Murray, Sr., Chairman, Greater Hazelwood Community Collaborative