Platform employed by Bremen city for the promotion of the inner city

Shops are empty in the country’s inner cities. A funding project from Berlin worth millions should strengthen the municipalities, including Bremen. The economic department has now commented on the results.

Bremen’s business department has positively assessed the effects of a nationwide funding project to revitalize inner cities. The money was used to set up a platform called LeAn, which is intended to bring vacant properties together with potential tenants. Around 230,000 euros were allocated to Bremen, although the money was not entirely used up, the department said. More than 1,400 hours of work were paid for with the money in 2022. First, the mirror had reported. The report said the project could become a costly job creation scheme.

The project Stadtlabore für Deutschland: Vacancies and Settlement was set up by the Federal Ministry of Economics in September 2021 to strengthen inner cities. Around 11.9 million euros were made available by the end of 2022. Several so-called model cities took part in the project, including Karlsruhe, Leipzig and Lüneburg. With this funding project, we are creating what is urgently needed: the basis for the process of revitalizing the city centers, said Bremen’s Senator for Economic Affairs Kristina Vogt at the time.

The LeAn platform will continue in Bremen even after the end of the project. The business department says the platform is being used successfully for settlement and vacancy management. The dialogue with the real estate industry has been intensified. So far, three networks have been established via the platform, as the department announced. So far there has not been a settlement.