Strategic model · Version 1.0
Method
How a small municipality regenerates through work, business and services.
The purpose
The corporate hub is not the goal
It is the engine. It brings work, people, skills and demand for services into the territory, and everything else follows from there.
The problem
The cycle that empties villages
Polishing the image of a village is not enough. Breaking the cycle takes a new economic function.
- Fewer residents
- Fewer services
- Fewer companies
- Less work
- And round again
The solution
Three infrastructures, one system
The corporate hub is not the goal: it is the engine that brings work, people and skills into the territory.
Corporate Hub
Offices, coworking, meeting rooms, auditorium, restaurant and events.
Housing
Affordable apartments for workers and families, within walking distance of the campus.
Community Services
School, childcare, sport and everyday services, treated as productive infrastructure.
Circular economic model
The value stays here
Spending by companies and workers creates demand, demand creates services, services create work.
- Under-used buildings
- Renovation
- Offices and homes
- Companies
- Workers
- New local demand
- Services and retail
- New jobs
- Greater attractiveness
Settlement model
Residents and temporaries
Resident startups on multi-year contracts, and dynamic ones trying the territory through residency programmes. The second feeds the first and lowers the cost of entry.
Unit economics
The comparison has to be proven
For every company we measure cost per desk, housing cost, included services, energy, relocation and total cost of staying. The comparison with Milan, Rome and Naples has to hold up on numbers, not intentions.
Green & Smart Campus
It is not a roof with panels
Architecture, energy, mobility and behaviour designed as one infrastructure. Sustainability is an economic requirement.
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.
Metrics
What we measure
Values to be determined during the feasibility phase.
Jobs created and retained
to be determined
Resident startups and temporary teams
to be determined
New residents and families
to be determined
Average housing cost
to be determined
Square metres recovered
to be determined
Spending retained locally
to be determined
Energy consumed and produced
to be determined
Use of campus services
to be determined
Satisfaction of companies and families
to be determined
New economic activity
to be determined
Roadmap
Seven steps
- 01
Analysis
The property, energy, demographic and economic picture.
- 02
Pilot project
The square, first offices, homes and essential services.
- 03
First startups
A first resident group and a first residency programme.
- 04
Main Hub
Building out the shared functions.
- 05
Digitalisation
Campus services and access, step by step.
- 06
Measurement
Impact measured and published every year.
- 07
Replication
The model carried to other municipalities.
The question is not how to save a village, but which economic and social function makes it desirable again.
We are not rebuilding the past.
We are building a place where technology and history coexist, work sustains the community, and the territory generates opportunity again.
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