Brown-field development
Best Practice Example
The tool refers to methodology and guidelines to reactivate brownfields for industrial development. Investors looking for real estate should benefit from a shorter process for planning and locating their businesses compared to setting up on green-fields. Furthermore, green-fields can be saved, jobs created and the quality of life for surrounding neighbourhoods improved.
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Main features and components
- Guidelines for land recycling, implications for urban development, project management, financing issues
- Management cycle
- Description of steps to apply for public funds
Implementation / work steps
- Identification of a suitable site
- Cost calculation
- Land recycling
- Marketing
Requirements
- Demand for real estate from companies
- Brownfields
- Data about the derelict sites as a basis of investment decisions:
- Former usage of the site
- Kind of pollution
- Available infrastructure
Output
- Attractive sites for new investments (less costly and faster to make use of, infrastructural setup already existent)
- Less demand for green-fields
- Job creation
- Rising quality of life for surrounding neighbourhoods
Characteristics
Phase of intervention
Designing SIA, Retrofitting
Level of intervention
Planning level
Themes
Brown-field Recycling
Target groups
Municipalities, Private investors
Countries
Germany, Romania
Regions
Europe
Duration
5-10 months planning period; 2-5 years until reactivated site can be used
Complexity
complex
Related tools
Baseline Analysis Tool
Contact
Further information
Useful links
Interactive Guidelines
Description of the project (English)
Presentation used for trainings
Report of Study Tour in Sept. 2007 to visit derelict industrial sites in Germany (German)
Project Data Sheet showing project setup and activities (German)
Downloads
Reactivation of Derelict Industrial Sites in Romania.pdf (1005.7 KB) Leitfaden zur Reaktivierung stillgelegter Industriestandorte in Rumänien.pdf (1.7 MB)