At an early stage of the regenerationproject in Kongens Enghave in Copenhagen a process of creating a vision for the neighbourhood was undertaken. The vision was created during a conference in 1999, which took place in the offices of one of the telecommunications companies. At the conference a lot of community actors were represented together with businesses in the neighbouring business neighbourhood. All the actors had formulated their visions for the neighbourhood in advance. One of the statements formulated and agreed on at the conference was: ‘The business neighbourhood and the housing neighbourhood have to be better integrated, physically and functionally. The balance between the workforce and the job available has to improve too’. This was the start of the collaboration with the large companies in the neighbouring neighbourhood of Kongens Enghave.

The Liberty Corner Project, a € 7.2m project in North East Inner City Dublin, is a private public partnership between City Council as landowner of designated tax site with McCabe Builders Ltd as private construction company. The partnership was formed to help create an arts industry quarter in this neighbourhood. The project is a building construction project comprising of an Enterprise Space, Dance Centre, Municipal Arts Centre, Childcare Facility, office and residential space. The Enterprise space is intended to accommOdate local enterprise and also to encourage the location of new enterprise activity in the neighbourhood.

The Dance Centre will provide facilities for the promotion of dance both locally and citywide. The Municipal Arts Centre will on behalf of Dublin City Council, promote the Arts in the City and complement existing artistic activities in the neighbourhood.

The crèche will accommodate up to 60 children.

The private partner takes the residential content and tax gain from the development.

GRO Grants (grants for renting and ownership) were grants made available by Scottish Homes (the National Housing Agency) to encourage house developers to build in neigh-bourhoods where the developers did not have confidence that the properties would sell at a commercial price. They were used at the beginning of the Gorbals regeneration, but once the developers had realised that demand was there, the need for GRO grants disappeared and they were withdrawn.