Incheon City Conducts Field Survey of 60 Urban Regeneration Project Candidate Sites

Incheon City announced on the 26th that it is discovering new project sites to be newly reflected in the urban regeneration strategic plan aimed for 2030.

By the end of September, the city plans to conduct on-site investigations of 60 candidate sites in the old downtown area in collaboration with frontline district urban regeneration officials and the Inha University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation to review their suitability.

The city began a service project in January to establish the 2030 Incheon Urban Regeneration Strategic Plan. The revised urban regeneration strategic plan will modify the original 2019 plan to align with the current government's urban regeneration policies and the changed conditions in Incheon, preparing urban regeneration promotion strategies for the 921.74㎢ old downtown area.

The city plans to present execution strategies and project methods for each candidate site by June next year, dividing them into 'economic regeneration,' such as innovation districts with complex functions including industry, commerce, housing, welfare, and administration led by the public sector in declining areas, and 'regional specialized regeneration,' which promotes customized regeneration projects utilizing Incheon's unique assets. Additionally, the on-site investigation will be used as basic data to identify local resources in the old downtown area and devise linkage strategies.

An Incheon city official stated, "It is urgent to discover candidate sites for urban regeneration activation that fit the old downtown innovation and region-specific customized projects, which are major policies of the 8th elected administration. We will prepare a solid urban regeneration strategy so that visible project effects such as revitalization of the old downtown and job creation can appear early."

Meanwhile, Incheon City has applied for the Dong Munan Village urban regeneration project in Ganghwa-gun in the public contest hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in the first half of this year and is awaiting review. In the second half of the year, the city is preparing a specialized urban regeneration project in the Gajwa-dong area of Seo-gu and plans to hold a public hearing hosted by Seo-gu Office on the 3rd of next month.

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