Strategic Infrastructure Projects
Strategic projects in the area of industrial properties are strategic industrial zones, i.e. zones covering a minimum of 200 hectares or at least 100 hectares when the zone is in a built-up but unused area. These zones are prepared for serious and important investors that undertake to implement significant investments and create a certain number of jobs.
Together with the system of investment incentives, the offer of prepared strategic zones is an important instrument for gaining strategic investors from the area of advanced industrial technologies and investors involved in the construction and development of technology centres and centres of business support services, as well as the creation of jobs in the fields of science and research.
The preparation of strategic zones is always undertaken in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, CzechInvest, and representative of regions and local authorities.
In the Czech Republic there are currently several strategic industrial zones that are not yet fully occupied: Kolín-Ovčáry, Most-Havraň, Žatec-Triangle, Nošovice, Mošnov and Holešov. The regeneration of the Škoda Plzen site is also among the recently implemented strategic projects.
Information on strategic projects
Triangle
Covering 360 hectares, Triangle is the largest strategic industrial zone in the Czech Republic. This former military airbase, at which old and disused structures were demolished and ecological burdens removed, is currently coming back to life and contributing to the socio-economic development of the entire region. The Japanese companies Hitachi and IPS Alpha decided to implement their investments in this zone, thanks to which more than four thousand jobs will be created in the coming three years.
Nošovice
Preparation of the Nošovice strategic industrial zone was the largest project tied to the interest of a strategic investor from the automotive industry. The size of this industrial zone is determined by the land-use plan and amounts to 260 hectares. The total amount of purchased plots will be approximately 322 hectares. This industrial zone was prepared for the investment of the carmaker Hyundai, for whose suppliers the industrial zones in Mošnov and Holešov are intended.
Škoda Plzen
Due not only to its size (180 ha) and foreign investments, but also to its connection with the city, the regeneration of the 140-year-old former engineering works of Škoda in Plzen is among the country's key strategic projects. The success of the project is connected with opening the site to people and discontinuing heavy manufacturing. This concerns a pilot project of regeneration of old, idle industrial sites that have hitherto been partially in use. The site is located near the centre of Plzen and in close proximity to the successful Plzen Borská pole City Industrial Park. The site is attractive for investments in light manufacturing, and not only because of its advantageous location.