Work is to start in the summer on development of derelict land along the riverside in Northampton.
Northamptonshire County Council said it wants to build new offices on derelict land at the back of County Hall.
Central College Nottingham said it wants to build the development on derelict land on Canal Street, next to the tram line.
Jon Fairburn, from Staffordshire University Business School, said planting flowers in derelict land helped "present a good image to inward investors".
It replaces the old swimming centre in Queens Road and has been been built on derelict land on the Little Burton estate.
He said he hoped the move would also reduce litter, with hundreds of cans and bottles regularly found on derelict land next to the high street.
Many west Europeans are furious at the growth of street-begging and pickpocketing (often involving children), plus fights and rapes, and the rise of squalid shanty towns on derelict land (or in parks).
Coventry City are planning to move to a new 45, 000-seater stadium the first in Britain with a retractable roof which will be built on 53 acres of derelict land in the north of the city.
City-centre offices have spilled across the River Aire to make once derelict industrial land hum again.
The site in question is derelict industrial land bordering Rainham Marshes, close to the route of the proposed Channel Tunnel rail link.
Three years later he bought Great Witchingham Hall, near Norwich - a derelict mansion with 36 acres of land which remains the headquarters of the Bernard Matthews Farms.
Only a few of the worst poisoned places were cleared up, at great cost, and the rule left some urban spaces derelict, encouraging development into previously untouched land.
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