Classification of Business Parks

Classification of Business Parks

We distinguish between the following types/classes of business park.

  1. Industrial. Spaces that mostly contain companies belonging to the secondary or tertiary sector, and which predominantly consist of factories or industry. This class includes Industrial Estates, Industrial Parks and Business Parks.
  2. Logistical. Spaces with a high percentage of companies involved in activities related to transport and logistics in the broadest sense, businesses which, for the most part, integrate complementary services in order to keep activity going. It comprises Transport Centres or Hubs, Logistical Centres, Logistical Activity Zones (ZAL) and Logistical Platforms.
  3. Business and leisure. Spaces occupied primarily by large stores or leisure centres that come with entertainment facilities. This includes Shopping Centres, Retail Parks, Entertainment Complexes, Leisure Complexes or Recreational Areas.
  4. Science and technology park. A business space linked to a project that:
    • Maintains formal and operative relations with universities, research centres and other higher education institutes.
    • Has been designed to promote the formation and growth of knowledge-based companies, as well as other organisations with a high degree of added value that belong to the tertiary sector - normally ones based in the same park.
    • Possesses a stable management structure that stimulates the transfer of technology whilst promoting innovation amongst the companies and organisations using the park.
  5. Services. Spaces primarily taken up by hotel management and catering activities, information & communications activities, finance and insurance activities, real estate activities, professional activities, administrative activities, auxiliary services and other service activities not included in specific categories.
  6. Mixed, with no predominant activity. Mixed spaces with no predominant type of activity.

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