The village is an infrastructure
Homes, squares, offices, greenery and services are not separate elements, but one system.
Salvitelle · Campania, Italy
Preliminary concept
A villagecan beatthe city.
The Municipality of Salvitelle proposes a shared productive infrastructure: work, housing, services and energy designed as a single system. For companies and startups that want an operating presence in Italy without a big city's property and running costs.
The system
- WorkCorporate Hub
- LiveHousing
- ThriveCommunity Services
- ConnectDigital infrastructure
Where it stands
What is already established, and what is not
The pilot is the only part of the project the documents quantify. Everything else — revenue, CAPEX, occupancy, break-even — is deferred to the financial model, and stays written here as not yet determined.
- Buildings
- Companies
- Workers
- EBITDA
- € / %
Verified
Target
Target
To be determined
Project status
Seven phases, asserted by the project rather than by the source documents. None carries a date: no document states one.
- 01AnalysisDone
- 02PilotUnderway
- 03CampusTo do
- 04EcosystemTo do
- 05Main HubTo do
- 06EnergyTo do
- 07ModelTo do
One phase complete, one under way, 5 still to start. Asserted by the project on 2026-08-21.
How to read this
- Verified
- Stated in the project documents.
- Target
- A declared objective, not an achieved result.
- To be determined
- Not yet determined: the financial model will define it.
The vision
Nobody returns to a village out of nostalgia
They return because it works. Salvitelle has to prove that a village can be contemporary, competitive and desirable: a place to live, work, raise a family and build companies.
A small municipality can be a global node, if it offers great quality of life, modern infrastructure and a competitive economic ecosystem.
The product
Italy Corporate Hub as a Service
Not an office. Corporate space, housing, services, fibre and mobility in a single contract.
Target sectors
- Software
- Artificial intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Engineering
- Consulting
- Marketing
- E-commerce
- Design
- Financial services
- Customer service
- Creative industries
- Technological craft
The problem
Opening a team in Italy is not just about the office
Space, utilities, connectivity, services, somewhere for people to live: usually separate line items, separate contracts, separate suppliers. What counts is the total cost of running a team, not the rent on a desk — and that is the comparison the commercial proposition has to prove against the urban alternatives.
The cost of space
An Italian presence without a major city's property costs.
Energy and utilities
Photovoltaics, storage and heat pumps as one system, not as separate bills.
Infrastructure and services
Fibre, IT, rooms, reception, maintenance: shared, not negotiated one at a time.
People
The employee's housing enters the equation: affordable homes, services close by.
The first step
Not a full relocation: a first team of 5–10 people, with residency programmes.
The other side: the cycle that empties villages
- Fewer residents
- Fewer services
- Fewer companies
- Less work
- And round again
How it works
One system, not four projects
The model's four infrastructures are not separate chapters: each one is the condition for the others. Pick one to see what it holds and how it ties into the rest.
Diagram: Corporate Hub, Housing and Community services are linked to each other and all three sit on the digital infrastructure.
Choose an infrastructure
01
Corporate Hub
Where the work happens: offices, coworking, meeting rooms, auditorium, restaurant, bar and events, planned for the campus. Offices can be spread across different buildings in the village and converge here.
It needs homes within walking distance and everyday services around it. It runs on the digital infrastructure.
02
Housing
Where people live: affordable apartments for workers and families, planned within a reasonable walking radius of the campus. The model can combine recovering existing buildings, affordable rents and new units only where they are needed.
It exists for the people working in the hub, and it only holds up if services make daily life sustainable.
03
Community Services
How daily life works around it: school, childcare, sport, wellbeing and everyday services, planned alongside the campus. In the model they are productive infrastructure: lowering the load of daily life means raising the sustainability of the work.
They support the people who live and work here. The demand that makes them viable comes from the hub.
04
Digital infrastructure
What holds the rest together: campus identity, access, bookings, services, credits and data in one system. The Method calls it the Digital Campus OS.
It sits underneath the other three: identity, access, bookings and consumption are one system for all of them.
From territory to impact
What it sets in motion
- 01Under-used buildings
- 02Renovation
- 03Offices and homes
- 04Companies
- 05Workers
- 06New local demand
- 07Services and retail
- 08New jobs
- 09Greater attractivenessThe cycle closes
Closed-loop diagram: under-used buildings are renovated into offices and homes, which attract companies and workers, whose spending creates services and new jobs, and so greater attractiveness for the territory.
The project in full
The whole project on one page
This page is the project in short. The masterplan tells it in full in four chapters — method, space, energy and the proposition to companies — and every document is reachable from there.
Open the masterplanThe ecosystem
Each part must create value for the others
The model puts companies, workers, families, services, territory and institutions inside one system. It defines their operating roles; the governance it calls for adds the community and financial partners.
Municipality of Salvitelle
In the model it brings the territory, facilitation, public assets, permits, possible incentives and coordination. The return the model sets out to generate: recovered building stock, new residents and new jobs.
Corporate Hub Operator
In the model it is the party responsible for economic management, buildings, contracts, services, marketing and scouting. It is also the party that would hold office, housing and services inside a single integrated contract.
Property Owners and Investors
Those who own and those who finance the buildings. In the model the thesis for them is simple: under-used buildings turned into productive infrastructure with recurring revenue.
Corporate Tenants
The companies the model sets out to attract: SMEs, startups and international firms that want to create an operating presence in Italy. Without this demand, the rest of the system does not hold together.
Manifesto
The ten principles
The village is not a constraint to overcome: it is an infrastructure to redesign.
Work generates territory
Companies do not just fill offices: they produce jobs, skills and demand that stay here.
Quality of life is an advantage
Working well without giving up nature, free time, safety and human relationships.
The campus is the heart
A central hub gathers the shared services. Distributed buildings flow into it as into a square.
Needed now
What is missing to move forward
Not everything is a question of money and not everything is a question of time. These are the pipeline items an outside contribution would unblock, and what each one would take.
Capital needed
First homes
To doPhase: PilotSkills needed
Contract model: municipality, operator, company
To doPhase: PilotStartups and companies needed
First resident startups
To doPhase: Ecosystem
Value proposition
Four points of view
Company
Lower operating costs, an Italian presence, employee housing and better retention.
Employee
Qualified work, an affordable home, free time and services within walking distance.
Salvitelle
New residents, employment, investment and recovery of the building stock.
Investor
Under-used buildings turned into productive infrastructure with recurring revenue.
Model structure
Four actors
Municipality of Salvitelle
Territory, public assets, permits and coordination.
Corporate Hub Operator
Economic management, property, contracts, services and scouting.
Property Owners
Owners and financiers of the buildings.
Corporate Tenants
The client companies of the ecosystem.
Where it starts
Three paths, one address.
The project is a preliminary concept: there is no call, no application form, no portal. Each path opens the right door on Collaborate, and every door ends in an email to the Municipality of Salvitelle.
Is it really worth building a team in Salvitelle instead of a large city?
This is the question the full business plan will answer: real data, cost comparison, CAPEX/OPEX and break-even.