Require, build or facilitate at least four sustainability attributes in a business/industrial park project:

Sustainable Parking: 

• See parking resources under BPA 14.1.
• See EV charging resources under BPA 23.5. 

Green Products & Jobs: 

• The Towerside Innovation District is a collaboration of public and private partners working to transform an overlooked, asset-rich district at the heart of the Twin Cities into an equitable and restorative demonstration of 21st century urban redevelopment.
• The City of Fridley’s Northern Stacks project was a superfund site redeveloped into a business campus.
• The Minnesota Main Streets program (BPA 5.2) can help communities create new jobs through investments to their downtowns. For example, Red Wing documented 79 new jobs created since joining the program in 2010. 
• Faribault initiated a Sustainable Industries Cohort in 2019 that brought together up to 50 local business leaders to regular meetings that helped inform the city's Comprehensive Plan update and aided in peer sharing and learning opportunities about sustainable best best practices. 
• Marshall Clean Energy Training program with SW MN Private Industry Council.
• The City of Austin provided office space for the Latino Economic Development Center. 

Green Buildings, Building Use, & Sites: 

• Empower you environmental/sustainability committees to be more effective at making your city more sustainable, resilient, and equitable by advocating for an environmental focus throughout the community’s development review process by using the Addressing the Sustainability Gap in the Development Review Process (GSC and Michael Orange, 2021). The guide has 8 main sections: climate change future - a call to action; the third “E” in Sustainability - equity, and climate refugees; environmental advocacy and the development review process; Minnesota programs for local governments; municipal development code; 2 case studies; and resources.  
• The Miniguide for Supporting Community-Centered Schools (MnDOT 2022) provides resources for determining the best locations to site a community asset. 
• The Pope/Douglas Soild Waste Magement Material Recovery Center 2024 project expanded a reuse room and fix-it/refurbishment space, supports Precious Plastics plastic reuse and includes a hands-on learning lab and community space.

Shared Energy Systems 

• In Rochester, linking buildings to pipes with circulating water, called a Thermal Energy Network, can help share the thermal energy available and reduce the impact of building electrification on the electric grid. 
• EPA combined heat and power resources and calculators.

Envision Rating System

• The Envision rating system from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure provides a holistic framework for evaluating and rating the community, environmental, and economic benefits of all types and sizes of infrastructure projects.