Ferienregion Alpsee-Grünten
| Number of municipalities | 5 |
| Size | 255 km² |
| Population | 48.400 |
| Evolution | 1,5 % |
| Number of households | ca. 23.000 |
| Number of companies | 2.350 |
| Commuter ratio (employment place of work / employment place of living) |
8 % |
| Commuters in the city of Sonthofen | |
| Out-commuters | 3.400 |
| In-commuters | 4.200 |
Inter-municipal cooperation
- Tourism: common "Tourism GmbH" aiming at a common image building for Alpsee-Grünten, a common marketing strategy and a common presentation of the tourism destination Alpsee-Grünten
- Culture: cooperation of the music schools, common theatre magazine, common theatre program
Problems
- Great scarcity of space available
- High real estate prices impede development
- High indebtedness of some municipalities strongly restricts leeway for action
- Tourism is still in the main focus of the regional economic development
- Too much competition between municipalities
- Great part of the population is considered being too passive, steady and state-oriented and not being aware of the future challenges in the region
Challenges
- Due to the abandonment of military use in the central part of Sonthofen, all at once a large and well developed area (32 ha) is free for commercial and residential use
- Conversion area in Sonthofen as experimental ground
- At the same time the city of Immenstadt is planning the exploitation of a scenically very sensible area for commercial development -> oversupply ?
- Considering requirements of tourism (landscape), flood protection (land)
- Better consideration of cost-effect-aspects
Objectives
- Broad awareness of the necessity of strategic commercial location development (CLD) on political, administrative and public level;
- Overcoming municipal competition, stronger commitment of the inter-municipal cooperation, stopping unsustainable exploitation of land;
- Establishing suitable structures for common management of (spatial) CLD in the region ("Gewerbeflächenmanagement") and common marketing, possibly in form of a development agency to be established;
- Raise the interest of other municipalities for getting involved in the process.
Expectations from COMUNIS
- Getting external support (financial and technical) for initiating the CLD process in the region;
- Learning from other regions how to organize and administer the CLD process.
