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business park
A planned and jointly serviced cluster of firms' office, research, laboratory, or light-industrial premises.
A business park is a planned site let to several firms, with roads, parking and services held in common. It groups the complexes and buildings used for offices, research, laboratories or light industry, usually in low buildings set back from the road with landscaped ground between them.
The site is developed and managed as a unit, which is what separates a business park from an ordinary collection of office buildings in a city center.
Where the site is given over to manufacturing, storage or goods traffic, use the industrial estate. Where offices and housing are mixed by plan, use the mixed-use development.
Related definitions
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industrial estate
A planned and serviced industrial cluster grouping firms' factories, warehouses, depots, and yards on one site. -
masterplanned community
A cluster planned as a whole before construction, coordinating housing with roads, services, and open space. -
mixed-use development
A planned cluster grouping complexes with deliberately different main uses, rather than a single mixed-use complex. -
residential development
A cluster of housing complexes built under one scheme, with other uses serving a primarily residential development. -
waterfront development
A planned cluster at the water's edge whose shoreline relationship defines the development and shapes its layout.