Steel Belt Redevelopment Partners

Steel Belt Redevelopment Partners · Detroit

Brownfield redevelopment, built for the digital era

Site, power, and Midwest-originated capital, sequenced for data infrastructure operators.

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01 / What We Do

Between the site, the utility, the capital, and the operator

SBRP is an integrator. We do not own GPUs, run workloads, or operate compute.

  • We originate brownfield land and bring it under control.
  • We sequence utility approvals and municipal entitlements.
  • We structure the capital stack against the operator counterparty.
  • We deliver a commissioned site for the operator to move into.

We work below hyperscale footprint, inside the tolerance of existing distribution and subtransmission. The goal is sites that already have power, fiber, and a permitted industrial history.

02 / Focus Area

Detroit metro, where we work

Southeast Michigan: brownfield parcels, fiber corridors, and substations Macomb County Monroe County St. Clair County Wayne County Oakland County Washtenaw County MACOMB MONROE ST. CLAIR WAYNE OAKLAND WASHTENAW Delray / SW Detroit River Rouge Highland Park Hamtramck / Conant Warren former auto plant Mt. Clemens corridor Pontiac GM Centerpoint Ypsilanti Willow Run Monroe riverfront Port Huron industrial Belle River substation Monroe Plant substation St. Clair substation Trenton Chan. substation Wixom substation Pontiac sub substation Detroit Candidate brownfield parcel Utility substation Long-haul fiber corridor

Southeast Michigan has a lot of underused industrial land sitting next to long-haul fiber and distribution gear built for a heavier era. The combination shows up as:

  • Power headroom on existing distribution and subtransmission.
  • Fiber routes already in the ground along I-94 and I-75.
  • Parcels inside the zoning envelope for industrial reuse.

We work here because the thesis is specific, not because the geography is convenient.

Typical brownfield site: components and connections PARCEL BOUNDARY / 8 TO 40 ACRES APPROXIMATE FRONTAGE UTILITY SUBSTATION PRIMARY FEED SWITCHGEAR + TRANSFORMERS HALL A HALL B HALL C BROWNFIELD FACILITY CONDITIONED ENVELOPE ON EXISTING SLAB MECHANICAL YARD STANDBY GENERATION MEET-ME ROOM FIBER A FIBER B STORMWATER BASIN SITE ACCESS + LOADING N
Representative brownfield facility with substation adjacency, redundant fiber, and mechanical and generation yards on an existing slab.

03 / How We Work

A plain workflow

  1. 1.

    Site Origination

    Brownfield parcels screened on power, fiber, and zoning. We control the land before we bring it to an operator.

  2. 2.

    Utility and Municipal Integration

    Interconnection, load studies, entitlement, local approvals. We sit between the utility, the city, and the operator.

  3. 3.

    Capital Coordination

    Debt, tax equity, and sponsor equity structured to the site, the offtake, and the operator.

  4. 4.

    Delivery to Operator

    EPC oversight, commissioning, and turnover of a ready site to the operator.

04 / Partnership Inquiry

We work with a few partners at a time

If you represent a site, a utility, a capital source, a municipality, or a compute operator, send a note.