Steel Belt Redevelopment Partners · Detroit

Critical infrastructure, built where it matters.

Brownfield redevelopment strategies for the digital era.

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01 / What We Do

The developer between site, utility, capital, and operator.

Steel Belt Redevelopment Partners is an integrator. We do not own GPUs, run workloads, or operate compute. We develop brownfield parcels into sites that compute operators can take occupancy of, originating the land, sequencing the utility and municipal approvals, structuring the capital, and managing delivery through to a site ready for an operator to move in.

We work below the footprint of hyperscale campuses and inside the tolerance of existing distribution and subtransmission infrastructure, so a tenant operator can stand up capacity on ground that already has power, fiber, and a permitted industrial history.

02 / Focus Area

Detroit metro brownfield redevelopment.

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 holds an unusual density of underutilized industrial land adjacent to long-haul fiber routes and distribution infrastructure built for a heavier industrial era. That combination of available power headroom, existing fiber, and sites inside the zoning envelope for redevelopment makes the Detroit metro a workable corridor in which to deliver sites to compute operators.

We concentrate 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 plainly-stated workflow.

  1. 01

    Site and Utility Diligence

    Parcel control, interconnection study, load flow analysis, fiber path diligence, and environmental screening before any operator is brought to the table.

  2. 02

    Operator, Capital, and Municipal Alignment

    Development agreement with the operator, term sheets with debt and equity, municipal and utility agreements, and final EPC scope.

  3. 03

    Delivery and Turnover

    Construction oversight, utility energization, and turnover of a commissioned site to the operator who will run the compute.

04 / Partnership Inquiry

We work with a select number of partners at a time.

If you represent a site, a utility, a capital source, a municipality, or a compute operator, we want to hear from you.