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The Complete Guide to LABV (Local Asset Backed Vehicle) — Proposing Public Asset Development Without Waiting for Park-PFI Public Calls Through Municipal Land-Contribution LLCs
… LABV LABV (Local Asset Backed Vehicle) is a public-private joint venture in which a municipality contributes public assets such as land in-kind, and private actors contribute capital and kn…
How Local Companies Become PFI Lead Sponsors — Lessons from Yonago Joint Government Building and Date City School Lunch Center Companion-Model Success
…l contractors, major design firms, and large operating companies. Behind this lies four structural barriers that local companies face when trying to take the lead sponsor position. Barrier 1…
The Complete Guide to Water PPP — The FY2027 Grant Requirement and the Level 3.5 Transition
…ernment has called it Mizu no Kanmin Renkei (public-private partnership for water); only the name changed, not the content . This article keeps the name Water PPP, which remains in the wordi…
What Is PRE Strategy? — How to Think About Activating Public Real Estate [2026 Edition]
What Is PRE Strategy? PRE Strategy — Public Real Estate Strategy — refers to the strategic, management-oriented approach to overseeing the land and buildings held by local governments. It tr…
PPP/PFI Introduction — The Essential First Read for Municipal Officials [2026 Edition]
…comparable records appropriate to the target facility, location and business when preparing a project plan. Distinguish these assumptions from cited statistics and case expenditure. The term…
What Are Small Concessions? — Turning Small-Scale Public Facilities into Private Projects, and How Municipalities and Operators Should Move [2026 Edition]
Municipal officials (public facility management, asset management, planning): you want to activate small-scale public buildings (closed schools, former town offices, idle properties) but con…
What Is Public Facility Management? Challenges, Concepts, and Next Steps
What Is Public Facility Management? Public facility management refers to the strategic, long-term approach to managing, utilizing, and restructuring the portfolio of facilities owned by loca…
What Is a Small Concession? A Complete Guide for Local Government Officials [2026 Edition]
… small-scale PPP/PFI projects involving idle public real estate that they own or have acquired. In practice, this means activating so-called "idle public real estate" — closed schools, tradi…
READING GUIDE
Choose a starting point.
Follow a short route through the basics, examples and practical steps. Community groups, researchers and students are welcome.
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