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Beppu City Harukigawa Park — Park-PFI in a Hot Spring City and the Design Behind ¥14 Million in Annual Usage Fees
…7, 2024, the western area of Harukigawa Park opened fully, with the artificial turf ground, rehabilitation exercise facility, learning facilities, café, and other amenities entering service.…
Yokohama City's Park-PFI — The Frontline of Large-City Park Activation
…ing three parks: Park Operator Business Type Opening Yamashita Park Resthouse 8-company consortium led by Zetton Dining and tourism complex April 2023 Odori Park Zones 1-3 4-company consorti…
How Landscape Companies Can Enter Park-PFI [2026 Edition]
…andscape companies the following advantages: Access to detailed conditions for the park (usable area, building scale restrictions, municipal priorities) Relationship-building with the munici…
Small Concession Latest Trends [2026 Edition] — One Year of the Platform: Achievements and Challenges
…, academia and finance; it also holds events open to non-members. Three member benefits are listed: information from the secretariat (no procedure required, sent periodically to the register…
Traditional Townhouses and Small Concessions — Why 4 of 7 Projects Involve Kominka [2026 Edition]
…these publicly-held assets are more directly accessible to the Small Concession institutional framework. Structural Analysis of Four Cases Case 1: Manazuru Town, Kanagawa — Former Folk Museu…
Abandoned School Use Change and the Building Standards Act — Renovation Requirements for Welfare Facility Conversion [2026 Edition]
…l use on the school's drawings. Barrier-Free Access Compliance When building a specified building of the scale set by Cabinet Order or larger (including changing a building's use into a spec…
Free Schools × Closed Schools — A New Model for Educational Access [2026 Edition]
…a sense of comfort and safety. The scale and openness of the spaces allows children to move and explore freely. Advantage 3: Community Integration Occupying a closed school naturally facilit…
Is MEXT's 'Minna no Haiko Project' Actually Useful? — Turning Listed Closed Schools into Real Projects [2026 Edition]
…ives one page per facility, showing address, access, contact, zoning, land area, structure, facility type, year completed, building area, total floor area, number of floors, what is being so…
Closed School Renovation Costs: Breakdown by Cost Item and Case Examples [2026 Edition]
…efore reuse and subsidies were available, so opening costs could be covered with borrowing alone. The Yubari City building was completed in 1986, after the current standards took effect. Cos…
Park-PFI and the Municipal Assembly — When Ordinance Revision Is Required and How to Explain It [2026 Edition]
…rivate sector's investment recovery model in accessible terms. Compare typical capital investment amounts for cafés and sports facilities ( ¥5 million to ¥200 million ) with projected revenu…
The Complete Park-PFI Process — A Four-Year Roadmap from Concept to Opening [2026 Edition]
…f six phases: from concept (Phase 0) through opening and long-term operations (Phase 5). The three to five years is an assumption this article makes rather than a published statistic; it var…
Small Concessions vs. Park-PFI: Which Should You Choose? [2026 Edition]
… park) Case ②: A closed school playground is open to the public as a park → School grounds outside the urban park boundary: Small Concession . If incorporated into the urban park boundary: c…
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ROUTE 01
For municipal planning
Start with the basics, then move through cases, process and dialogue design.
- What Is Public Facility Management? Challenges, Concepts, and Next Steps
- Sapporo Yurigahara Park Park-PFI LiLiLi — Sapporo's First Case, Community-Led SPV Park Operation
- The Complete Park-PFI Process — A Four-Year Roadmap from Concept to Opening [2026 Edition]
- Market Sounding for PPP: 8-Item Question Template and Step-by-Step Guide
ROUTE 02
For prospective operators
Understand the system, test viability and prepare a proposal.
- What Is a Small Concession? A Complete Guide for Local Government Officials [2026 Edition]
- Higashi Yuenchi URBAN PICNIC — Kobe Sannomiya Redevelopment and Park-PFI After 8 Years of Citizen-Led Social Experiments
- How to Build a Park-PFI Revenue Plan — With Simulation Template [2026 Edition]
- How to Write a Park-PFI Proposal — Working Backward from the Scoring Criteria [2026 Edition]
ROUTE 03
Learn from setbacks
See how projects stall and which conditions to avoid.
- Abandoned School Reuse Failures — Why Repurposed Schools Become Idle Again: Structural Causes of Withdrawal and Business Collapse
- 5 Patterns of Park-PFI Project Failure — Structural Analysis of Contract Termination, Financial Deterioration, and Resident Opposition
- The Zero-Response Sounding Problem — 5 Reasons Private Operators Don't Participate and How to Fix It