Cities: Re-using brown fields for innovation and sustainable growth

Robert Michalski, Vice-Director, Management Department of the ROP,

Marshal's Office of Westpomerania Region

Regions for Economic Change

WESTPOMERANIA – OUR LOCATION

WESTPOMERANIA – KEY DATA & FACTS

POPULATION 1,7 million

AREA 23 thousand km² (the fifth biggest region in Poland)

TERRITORIAL DIVISION 21 counties and 114 communes

Accessed with EU since 2004

MAIN DISTANCES• Brussels 850 km• Berlin 140 km• Copenhagen 281 km• Prague 371 km• Warsaw 450 km• London 1016 km

distances are line of sight

Urban Regeneration in ROP WR

grants JESSICA Initiative

LoansLoans EquityEquity

Public-Private Partnerships or other Urban Projects (Packages of sub-projects)

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Preferential terms and conditions

Preferential terms and conditions

Buying sharesBuying shares

Tranches from UDF according

to timetable

Repaymentsand interest

to UDF

Equity contributions

from UDF Selling shares or

dividends for UDF

Urban Regeneration in Westpomeranian ROP

GrantsGrants

45-55 % 45-55 %

Jessica and grants

SMA (Szczecin Metropolitan Area)

Rest of the region

27 331 464 EUR 22 292 831 EUR

amount: 49 624 295 EUR

+ Government Funding

Urban Regeneration in Westpomeranian ROP

The resources donated to support the urban regeneration process are divided into two priority axis for the ROP WR.

Priority axis 5. tourism, culture and revitalization.• Measure 5.5 revitalization:-sub-measure 5.5.1 Revitalization of degraded areas-sub-measure 5.5.2 JESSICA Initiative.Priority axis 6. development of the metropolitan functions.• Measure 6.6 Revitalization on the metropolitan area-sub-measure 6.6.1 Revitalization of degraded areas on the

metropolitan area.-sub-measure 6.6.2 JESSICA Initiative on the metropolitan area.

Urban Regeneration in Westpomeranian ROP

Integrated Plans for Sustainable Urban Development

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Local Revitalization Plans

Urban Regeneration in Westpomeranian ROP

Grants & JESSICA Grants & JESSICA Initiative in ROP Initiative in ROP WRWR

The support both by grants and JESSICA Initiative will concern groups (packages) of projects (so called sub-projects) realizing aims and tasks of LRPs of a

given community, town or city.

Projects implemented with JESSICA support should generate income (IRR>0).

Sequence of actions which aims are to alleviate an area from its crisis condition.

It should consist of infrastructural and non-infrastructural projects which are managed by the communities and other partners of urban regeneration processes, funded by their own contributions as well as other available resources, including ROP WR.

How to define Integrated Projects?

Local Revitalisation Programmes

Integrated Projects

Sub-projects

Center of Szczecin

Grants

27 7

26

33

35

24

25

23

36

8

Grants

40

39

2019

JESSICA

22

21

16

17

9Integrated project of regeneration of

deprived urban area

Now It looks like this.... The Idea of „Green

Yards” – potential grant project

Or like this .....„Urban jungle” and

parking space

Typical yard ... Cars and concrete intsead of grass and flowers

But sometimes you’ll find .... The places like this one

TRANSFORMATION from concrete

into .... Green Yards

This is how it can look ... „Green

Path” – one of the potential sub-projects

Lot of potential small infrustructure and non-infrastructure projects for...children, youth and whole community – the idea of open doors

Another potential JESSICA - sub-project.... Apartments, offices, jobs in green surroundings

JESSICA & grants in Westpomerania - State of play

  2009 2010 2011

  Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb

LRP guidelines accepted                                

JESSICA - Call for Expresion of Interest                              

Selction of UDF(s)                                

Deadline for LRPs                                

Call for Proposals of Sub-Procects (JESSICA)                                

Call for Proposals of Sub-Procects (Grants)                                

Assesment of Sub-Projects (JESSICA & grants)                                

Sub-projects - operational phase (JESSICA & grants)                                

Our main achievements so far…

• Change in the way LRP is perceived by local decision-makers – it isn’t only a bureaucratic requirement of MA.

• Change from popular in previous programming period “apply-for-one-project” way of thinking into “create-a-package-of-projects” approach.

• Long list of potential UDF’s• List of potential JESSICA projects even longer…

Main challenges to tackle

• Potential UDF’s expect us (MA) to be flexible. The question is how flexible can we be?

• Do we (MA) have realistic expectations concerning UDF?

• Active role of MA in JESSICA - project identification (market building).

• Cities need time to understand what are the profits of repayable resources – first reaction always negative.

• We won’t make any move forward with big urban regeneration JESSICA/grants projects without solving state aid issues. .

Thank you for your attention

Robert MichalskiRobert MichalskiROROPP Manag Managementement Department DepartmentMarshalMarshal’s’s OOffice of theffice of the Westpomeranian Westpomeranian RegionRegionKolumba St. 60AKolumba St. 60A70-035 Szczecin70-035 SzczecinPolandPolandr.michalski@wzp.pl