From 10 to 12 July, a team of experts in public and private financing from ULI will be advising the city of Saarbrücken about the Stadtmitte am Fluss project. They will be on site to examine the options for financing public projects. Value-oriented financing is one of the possibilities they will consider.

Value-oriented planning is a tool that can be used by local governments to stimulate economic growth. Investment goes into a public infrastructure project with the aim of stimulating private investment. The incremental tax revenues resulting from those private investments are captured by the sponsoring municipality to pay for the infrastructure project.

>>>MORE  (Interview with Mary Beth Corrigan, Vice President at the Urban Land InstituteI)