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The task of promoting the sustainable development of the metropolitan area of Milan entrusted to Milano Metropoli is closely linked to the North Milan redevelopment project. For the last eight years, this joint project has involved the Agency itself, local government, the provincial authorities and the town councils of Sesto San Giovanni, Bresso, Cologno Monzese and Cinisello Balsamo.

Redevelopment has produced a series of positive results: unemployment slashed by half and now in line with the average for the metropolitan area of Milan (in 1996/1997 unemployment had reached 10%); a surge in the number of new businesses; impressive growth rates in advanced sectors such as IT (the latter has blossomed by 400%); an exceptional array of projects of excellence implemented in all four municipalities.

Re-industralialization 
In particular, physical redevelopment and conversion work has affected 67,270 sq m, and has led to the construction of: four industrial parks for SMEs and artisan's workshops (two in Sesto San Giovanni, one in Bresso and another in Cologno Monzese); two innovative business incubators in Sesto San Giovanni (OMC and LIB); a Resource Centre for the Social Enterprise and a craft/commercial workshop in Cinisello. This in turn has attracted 71 new start ups and approximately 78 SMEs and artisan's workshops.

New jobs
By December 2004, these new businesses had generated 1,671 new jobs, with a further 2,000 units forecast for 2005, when all the work is scheduled for completion. The employment generated by the building sites and conversion projects accounted for 2,000 man/years.
The importance of these labour figures is confirmed by the positive ratio between jobs actually created and jobs initially forecast. The North Milan redevelopment project had estimated 754 new jobs: with 2,000 new units, the ratio is approximately 280%.

Investments
In figures, the overall cost of all the public and private works implemented by the Agency from 1997 to December 2004 was 262 million euros. For public actions, where the Agency played a decisive role in obtaining and coordinating the provincial, regional, national and EU public financing tools, the Development Fund (phase II) provided 7 million euros and served as a flywheel for a further 11.5 million euros of public financing. Such actions also attracted over 243.5 million euros' worth of private investments.

Another outcome of the project is a new identity and a new image for North Milan, which has gained a pivotal new metropolitan role, as well as international visibility.

Actions and projects
All this has been achieved by promoting concrete actions and projects that responded to a consistent and synergetic redevelopment strategy, summarized here below:

  • Development forum, designed to engage all the main social and economic players in local development strategies.
  • Framework agreements, an action plan shared by the institutions and by the social players for the reindustrialization of some of Sesto San Giovanni's derelict areas under Regional Law 30/1994.
  • Business Innovation Centre - BIC La Fucina, new facilities dedicated to advanced services for SMEs and for aspiring entrepreneurs.
  • Proxima Centre for telework, teletraining and teleservices, the first remote working centre in Lombardy to promote training and the use of new technologies.
  • Resources Centre for Social Enterprises (CRIS), a centre set up to support the Social Economy by forming and developing social cooperatives.
  • Image makeover - crisis becomes an opportunity and the area has shed its image as an anonymous industrial hinterland to take on a pivotal new metropolitan role and international visibility.
  • New productive cluster for artisans and SMEs, in two industrial districts in Sesto San Giovanni (47 firms), one in Bresso (14 firms) and another in Cologno Monzese (14 SMEs) as well as a craft/commercial workshop in Cinisello Balsamo (5 craftsmen).
  • Innovative business incubators, OMC and LIB, two facilities equipped to house innovative new start ups.
  • North Milan Strategic Plan, promoting a long-term vision - shared by local councils - of strategic issues such as the environment, infrastructure, innovation and advanced technologies and work.
  • North Milan Agenda 21, the supra municipal cooperation tool that has defined an Action Plan to improve the quality of life and of the environment.
  • Environmental and urban redevelopment, organizing international competitions for ideas and cooperation on planning and implementing integrated urban redevelopment programmes.