Incheon City Establishes Redevelopment Plans for Five Aging Residential Districts Including Yeonsu and Seonhak

'2035 Basic Plan for Redevelopment of Old Planned Cities'
Four Core Strategies and District-Specific Roadmaps Unveiled

Incheon City has established a vision and strategy for the redevelopment of five large-scale residential districts that were developed in the 1980s and 1990s.

On December 2, the city held a resident briefing session for the “Basic Plan for the Redevelopment of Old Planned Cities” at Samsan World Convention Center, unveiling its redevelopment plans with a target year of 2035.

The redevelopment directions for each district are as follows: Yeonsu and Seonhak Districts (6.57 million square meters) will become a robot-based “Future-Oriented Global R Residential Environment 4.0”; Guwol District (1.26 million square meters) will be revitalized as a “SOHO Art and Culture City”; and Gyesan District (1.61 million square meters) will be transformed into a “Smart Connected City” where people, industry, and ecology are interconnected.

Additionally, Galsan, Bupyeong, and Bugae Districts (1.61 million square meters) will be developed as a “Waterside Nature Community” connecting Gulpocheon Stream and the station area, while Mansu 1, 2, and 3 Districts (1.45 million square meters) are set to become an “Intergenerational Community” based on carbon neutrality.

Location map of the Incheon Old Town Redevelopment Project Area. Incheon City

To achieve these goals, the city plans to implement four major strategies: ▲ Place Innovation ▲ Future-Oriented Residential Environment ▲ New Industry 4.0 ▲ 2045 Carbon Neutrality. The plan also includes key initiatives for transforming into a future city, such as developing mixed-use hubs around transit stations, improving living social overhead capital (SOC), introducing a residential environment based on AI robotics and an urban air mobility (UAM) transportation system, and creating a healthcare industry ecosystem.

At the resident briefing session, the city also presented a total of 39 special redevelopment zones (including housing redevelopment, central district redevelopment, and relocation support types), and explained the principles for setting base floor area ratios, guidelines for reinvesting public contributions, and plans for expanding infrastructure.

Going forward, the city will hold additional resident briefing sessions by region to gather citizen feedback and will begin accepting applications for pilot districts starting on December 15. The city plans to finalize and officially announce the basic plan for old planned city redevelopment in the first half of next year after collecting opinions from the city council, undergoing review by the local committee, and obtaining approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Yoo Jeongbok, Mayor of Incheon, emphasized, “For Incheon to leap forward as a global future city, it is necessary to move beyond simple residential redevelopment and transition to a new urban structure for the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” He added, “As the deterioration of infrastructure-such as insufficient living SOC, parking shortages, and water leaks-worsens, it is important to take a broad and proactive approach to address these issues.”

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