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A business park or business estate is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial
Commerce

Commerce is a division of trade or production, costs, and pricing which deals with the Trade of goods and service from production, costs, and pricing to final consumer....
, not industrial
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
 or residential.

e are popular in many suburban locations, where it is cheaper to develop land because of the lower land costs and the lower building costs for building wider, not necessarily higher.






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A business park or business estate is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial
Commerce

Commerce is a division of trade or production, costs, and pricing which deals with the Trade of goods and service from production, costs, and pricing to final consumer....
, not industrial
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
 or residential.

Situation

These are popular in many suburban locations, where it is cheaper to develop land because of the lower land costs and the lower building costs for building wider, not necessarily higher. They are also often located near motorways or main roads.

Criticism

Criticism of business parks often relates to the failure of business parks to relate to the urban fabric of the city:

A result of this form of territorial colonization is the proliferation of spaces which escape the control of the built realm: voids between fragments of unconnected residential schemes, gaps between urbanized zones, abandoned farmland, etc. While we debate on whether the traditional city block is a naïve solution to the problem of ordering immediate periphery, a new approach to spacial organization arises with the ease that characterizes any new consumer good, an approach which questions the conventional references of urbanism: the so-called 'commercial, industrial, business and theme park'. ...


The urbanized park originally sprang the hybridization of the garden-city
Garden city movement

The garden city movement is an approach to urban planning that was founded in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts, and containing carefully balanced areas of residences, industry, and agriculture....
 and Anglo-Saxon university campus models. It adopted the former's low-rise buildings and attention to free spaces as a way of shaping the environment, and the latter's autonomous constructions. In sum, parks are thematic precincts of autonomous architectural set pieces arranged around parking lots and communal services, and are situated at the most accessible points of the metropolitan road network.

List of significant business parks (incomplete)

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  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    • Norwest Business Park
      Norwest Business Park

      The Norwest Business Park is a business park in the suburb of Bella Vista, New South Wales in Australia. Norwest Business is boarded by Windsor Road to the East, and Old Windsor Road to the West, with Norwest Boulevard stretching the length of the park between the two main arterial roads....
      , Bella Vista, New South Wales
      Bella Vista, New South Wales

      Bella Vista is a suburb of north-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bella Vista is located 33 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local Government Areas in Australia of the The Hills Shire Bella Vista is part of the Greater Western Sydney region and the Hills District ....
  • Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    • Business Park Sofia
      Business Park Sofia

      Business Park Sofia is a business park currently in construction in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Part of the larger Sofia Park complex which is also to feature a residential and commercial area, it would include 35 buildings and would spread over a plot of 220,000 m? and a total built-up area of 300,000 m?....
  • Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    • Burnside Park
      Burnside Park

      Burnside Park could refer to:*Burnside, Nova Scotia, a business park and neighbourhood located in the Dartmouth, Nova Scotia area of Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
  • Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    • Capital business park,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdxM3L0HtR4
    • Smart Village
      Smart Village

      Smart Village launched in 2003 is a 600-acres Information and Communications Technology Business-Park project in Egypt. It is located in Cairo metropolitan area, 20 minutes from downtown Cairo....
  • Central America
    Central America

    Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
  • Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    • Business Park Regensburg
  • Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    • Citywest
      CityWest

      CityWest, formerly known as CityTel, is a city-owned corporation that provides wireline and cellular telephone and internet services in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, British Columbia....
      , Dublin
      Dublin

      Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
    • East Point Business Park
      East Point Business Park

      The East Point Business Park in Dublin, Republic of Ireland is one of the country's largest business parks, being the place of employment for thousands of people....
      , Dublin
      Dublin

      Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
    • International Financial Services Centre
      International Financial Services Centre

      The International Financial Services Centre , or An L?rionad Seirbh?s? Airgeadais Idirn?isi?nta in Irish, is a major financial services centre in North Wall , Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
      , Dublin
      Dublin

      Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
  • Latvia
    Latvia

    Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
    • Dominante Park
      Dominante Park

      Dominante Park is a business park located in the Baltic Region, in the middle of the Baltic States, in Latvia, south of the Riga District, Kekava, on Via Baltica road, part of European route E67....
      ,http://www.dominantepark.lv, Riga
      Riga

      Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
  • Malta
    Malta

    Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
    • Smart City Malta
      SmartCity Malta

      SmartCity is a planned technology park to be constructed in Kalkara, Malta. The plan is to transform the Industrial Estates in Malta#Ricasoli Industrial Estate into a state-of-the-art information technology and media city on the models of Dubai Internet City and Dubai Media City....
  • Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    • Kraków Business Park, Zabierzów
      Zabierzów

      Zabierz?w is a village in southern Poland in the Krak?w metropolitan area, and situated in Lesser Poland Voivodship, previously in Krak?w Voivodship....
  • Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
    • Changi Business Park
      Changi Business Park

      File:Changi Business Park, Jul 06.JPGThe Changi Business Park is a business park located in Changi South, in the eastern part of Singapore.Launched in July 1997, the 66-hectare Changi Business Park is JTC Corporation's second business park following the International Business Park in Jurong East....
    • International Business Park
      International Business Park

      International Business Park is a high-tech business and commercial venue managed by JTC Corporation in Jurong East, Singapore. Established in 1992, the International Business Park is Singapore's first business park....
  • Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    • Parque Tecnológico de Madrid, Tres Cantos
      Tres Cantos

      Tres Cantos is a township and municipality located in the Autonomous communities of Spain of Community of Madrid, Spain, some 22 kilometre north of the capital city, Madrid....
      , Madrid
      Madrid

      Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
  • United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    • Aztec West
      Aztec West

      Aztec West is a business park in South Gloucestershire, England, situated at the northern fringes of Greater Bristol, near Bradley Stoke and Patchway....
      , Bristol
      Bristol

      Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....
    • Birmingham Business Park, Solihull
      Solihull

      Solihull is a large town in the West Midlands of England, with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre....
    • Cambridge Business Park
      Cambridge Business Park

      Cambridge Business Park is a large business complex in Cambridge, England. It is home to many companies, mostly Information Technology-related, such as CSR plc, Autonomy , The MathWorks and Red Gate Software, but also intellectual property firms such as Mewburn Ellis, Venner Shipley and Mathys and Squire....
      , Cambridge
      Cambridge

      The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
       an integral part of Silicon Fen
      Silicon Fen

      Silicon Fen is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large business cluster of high-tech businesses, especially those related to software, electronics, and biotechnology....
      .
    • , Pontprennau
      Pontprennau

      Pontprennau is a district in the Cardiff East of the city of Cardiff, Wales....
      , Cardiff
      Cardiff

      Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
    • Cobalt Business Park
      Cobalt Business Park

      Cobalt Park in North Tyneside is the UK's largest office park, with around of office space built or under construction. It is situated next to West Allotment, and has good transport access....
      , Newcastle upon Tyne
      Newcastle upon Tyne

      Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
    • Cardiff Business Park, Llanishen
      Llanishen

      Llanishen is a district in the Cardiff North of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Llanishen is well-known as the home of the 'Tax Offices', the tallest buildings in north Cardiff and a landmark for miles around....
      , Cardiff
      Cardiff

      Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
    • East Moors Business Park, Tremorfa
      Tremorfa

      Tremorfa is a district of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It falls into the Splott ward of Cardiff....
      , Cardiff
      Cardiff

      Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
    • Edinburgh Park
      Edinburgh Park

      Edinburgh Park is a business park located in South Gyle, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located to the west of the city, near Edinburgh Airport and the Edinburgh City Bypass....
      , Edinburgh
      Edinburgh

      Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
    • GreenPark
      GreenPark Business Park

      GreenPark is a business park near junction 11 of the M4 motorway on the outskirts of Reading, Berkshire, but partly in the civil parish of Shinfield, in the England county of Berkshire....
      , Reading
      Reading, Berkshire

      Reading is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway....
      , Berkshire
      Berkshire

      Berkshire is a Home Counties in the South East England of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1958, and Letters patent issued confirming...
    • Milton Park
      Milton Park

      Milton Park is a mixed use business park operated by MEPC on the site of a former Ministry of Defence depot between the A34 road and Didcot Power Station....
      , Oxfordshire
      Oxfordshire

      Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
    • Omega
      Omega Development Site

      Omega, comprising 226 hectares straddling the M62 motorway Motorway in Warrington, Cheshire is one of Europe?s most important strategic development sites....
      , Warrington
      Warrington

      Warrington is a large town, borough status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley....
    • Oxford Business Park
      Oxford Business Park

      The Oxford Business Park is a business park of 88 acres at Cowley, Oxford on the eastern edge of Oxford, England. The park is immediately adjacent to the Oxford Ring Road....
      , Oxford
      Oxford

      Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
    • Pride Park
      Pride Park

      Pride Park is a business park on the outskirts of the city centre of Derby, United Kingdom. The Business park covers an Eighty Hectare site, of former industrial land between the River Derwent and the Railway lines....
      , Derby
      Derby

      Derby is a city status in the United Kingdom in the East Midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent, Derbyshire and is located in the south of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire....
    • Shrewsbury Business Park
      Shrewsbury Business Park

      The Shrewsbury Business Park is a recent commercial development on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, Shropshire . Construction commenced in late 2001 on the 30 acre, ?25 million site, and is still ongoing....
      , Shrewsbury
      Shrewsbury

      Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is home to 70,689 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement of the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which has a population of 95,850....
    • Slough Trading Estate
      Slough Trading Estate

      The Slough Trading Estate founded in Slough, Berkshire in 1920, was the UK?s first Industrial park.According to the estate's owners and operators, SEGRO , Slough Trading Estate comprises of commercial property in Slough and provides of accommodation to 500 businesses and has a working population of circa 20,000 people....
      , Slough
      Slough

      Slough is a Borough status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area within the Ceremonial counties of England of Berkshire, England, situated west of London....
    • Solent Business Park, Whiteley
      Whiteley

      Whiteley is a community in the county of Hampshire, England, near Fareham. The development straddles the boundary between two council districts: the Fareham to the south and west, and the City status in the United Kingdom of City of Winchester to the north and east....
      , Hampshire
      Hampshire

      Hampshire , sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, , or the County of Southampton, is a Counties of England on the south coast of England....
    • Solstice Park, Wiltshire
      Wiltshire

      Wiltshire is a Ceremonial counties of England in the South West England of England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire....
    • Stockley Park
      Stockley Park

      Stockley park is a large business estate located between Hayes and West Drayton in the London Borough of Hillingdon.It is home to over 30 companies such as Adobe and Pipex and employs over 6500 people....
      , Greater London
      Greater London

      Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. The administrative area was officially created in 1965 and covers the City of London , the City of Westminster and the other 31 London boroughs....
    • Swansea Enterprise Park
      Swansea Enterprise Park

      The Swansea Enterprise Park is a combined business park and retail park in Swansea. In 1981 it became the first enterprise zone in the United Kingdom, and the largest....
      , Swansea
      Swansea

      Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom and subdivisions of Wales in Wales. Swansea is in the Historic counties of Wales of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands....
    • Team Valley
      Team Valley

      Team Valley is a traditionally heavily industrial area of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. More recently it has become home to the 'Retail World' retail park, which makes up just a small percentage of the entirety of the Team Valley Trading Estate....
      , Gateshead
      Gateshead

      Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne, England, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Gateshead town centre and Newcastle city centre are very close to one another, and together they form the urban core of Tyneside....
    • Thames Valley Park
      Thames Valley Park

      Thames Valley Park is a high-tech business park adjacent to the River Thames on the eastern outskirts of Reading, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire....
      , Reading
      Reading, Berkshire

      Reading is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between London and Swindon off the M4 motorway....
      , Berkshire
      Berkshire

      Berkshire is a Home Counties in the South East England of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1958, and Letters patent issued confirming...
    • Thorpe Park, Leeds
      Leeds

      Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
  • United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    • Newport Center
      Newport Center

      Newport Center is a business, shopping, and entertainment district located on a high bluff overlooking Newport Harbor in Newport Beach, California....
      , Newport Beach, California
      Newport Beach, California

      Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, United States south of downtown Santa Ana, California. As of 2008, the population was 84,554....
    • Denver Tech Center
      Denver Technological Center

      The Denver Technological Center, better known as "The Denver Tech Center" , is a business and economic trading center located in Colorado in the southeastern portion of the Denver Metropolitan Area, including portions of the cities of Denver, Colorado, Centennial, Colorado and Greenwood Village, Colorado....
      , Denver, Colorado
      Denver, Colorado

      Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
    • Research Triangle Park
      Research Triangle Park

      Research Triangle Park is the largest research park in the United States. It is located near Durham, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina....
      , Raleigh
      Raleigh, North Carolina

      Raleigh is the Capital of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh is known as the ?City of Oaks? for its many oaks....
      /Durham
      Durham, North Carolina

      Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina and also extends into Wake County, North Carolina county....
    • Cummings Research Park
      Cummings Research Park

      Cummings Research Park, located primarily in the city of Huntsville, Alabama is the second largest research park in the United States, and the fourth largest in the world....
      , Huntsville, Alabama
      Huntsville, Alabama

      Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Alabama and Limestone County, Alabama Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the county seat of Madison County....
    • Great Valley Corporate Center
      Great Valley Corporate Center

      Great Valley Corporate Center is a mixed-use business development located off U.S. Route 202 between Valley Forge and West Chester, Pennsylvania....
      , Malvern, Pennsylvania
      Malvern, Pennsylvania

      Malvern is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,059 at the 2000 census. The main road through the borough is King Street, although the borough is also bordered by Paoli Pike on the south, and is near US 30 on the north....
    • T-REX Corporate Center, Boca Raton, Florida
      Boca Raton, Florida

      Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S....
    • Arvida Park of Commerce, Boca Raton, Florida
      Boca Raton, Florida

      Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S....
    • Bishop Ranch Business Park, San Ramon, California
      San Ramon, California

      San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, California, United States. It is a part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 44,722 at the 2000 United States Census....


Business parks in popular culture

  • A 1999 film Office Space
    Office Space

    Office Space is an United_States_of_America comedy film, released in 1999, that was written and directed by Mike Judge. It satirizes work life in a typical software company during the 1990s, focusing on a handful of individuals who are fed up with their jobs....
     shows a setting in a business park.


See also

  • Industrial park
    Industrial park

    An industrial park or industrial estate is an area of real property set aside for industry Urban planning. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities, especially where intermodal freight transport coincide: highways, railroads, airports, and navigation rivers....
  • Knowledge spillover
    Knowledge spillover

    Knowledge spillover is an exchange of ideas among individuals. In knowledge management economics, a knowledge spillover is a Rivalry knowledge market externality that has a spillover effect of stimulating technological improvements in a neighbor through one's own innovation....
  • Office
    Office

    An office is generally a room or other area in which people employment, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty....
  • Science park
    Science park

    A science park or science and technology park is an area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing....