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

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