5 Surprising Benefits of Urban Infill

Urban infill is the redevelopment of underused land in existing communities. Filling in gaps in underdeveloped neighborhoods is the perfect way to breathe life into a community while utilizing existing infrastructure, utilities, and pouring revenue into businesses.  

Read to the end to find out why Urban Infill could be a great investment into a community you’d like to see thrive.

INVIGORATE AND REFRESH AN EXISTING COMMUNITY

Filling in the gaps in an existing community helps attract more tourism, business commerce, and employment opportunities. Urban infill gives an existing community a facelift that helps it thrive. Refreshing an underused area also removes the safety risk that the unused area may pose as sidewalks are fixed, roofs are repaired, and condemned buildings are removed for example. 

UTILITIES ARE READY TO USE

One of the benefits of urban infill is that utilities and infrastructure are already in place so there is no need to establish them. You can think of urban infill as recycling underused spaces. Water, sewage, roads, sidewalks, and electricity lines are already in place so all that is needed is to re envision the space.

POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Infill projects add homes that can help reduce the housing crisis and urban sprawl. Urban sprawl creates pressure on communities surrounding the city to develop quickly and accommodate those working in the city. This increases CO2 emissions and adds to commute times. Creating affordable homes in the city means that workers won’t have to travel as far to work in the city where they work or attend school. 

CLOSE TO EXISTING AMENITIES & ENCOURAGES NEW ONES

Adding an attractive neighborhood helps bring in other facilities like entertainment, gyms, grocery stores, daycares, and more. This also brings more tax revenue into an area which can be contributed to development of community projects, art murals, parks, and playgrounds. 

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We Can Help with Your Urban Infill and Brownfield Development!

To carry out your goal of urban infill and brownfield development, you’ll need the support of the local community and, depending on what stage of development you are in, you may need support from one or more investors.

We can help by designing an investor packet to present to potential investors. Your investor packet will include renderings of your proposed neighborhood and specifically designed house plan options for homes that you’ll be building in your development.
We will design unique home plans that will look great in your development while helping you maintain the character of the urban community that you seek to reinvigorate. |

We print our investor packets on 11”X17” presentation paper so you can submit them to your steering committee, interested individuals, stakeholders, and potential investors.

Contact the professionals on our team today and ask how we can help with your plans for urban infill and brownfield development in Oklahoma.