Industrial heritage and reconversion of industrial sites

Resita Municipality, a local public authority, is involved in all the relevant development projects of the municipality. Reșița retains a strong industrial profile.

City ​​growth, transformation and modernization is the priority of the current management, taking into account the reduced own budget, the solution found was accessing European funds, having at this moment, in implementation, projects worth more than 150,000,00.00 EURO. Modern transport, new bicycle lanes, bicycle share system via mobile app, energy efficient and modernised kindergartens, schools and high-schools, housing construction for disadvantaged communities and multicultural centres, should contribute to the vitality and comfort of the city's inhabitants, making Resita a better city to live and work in. Also, the Municipality is implementing two projects designed to develop the strategic planning capacity at the local public administration level, by introducing a participative budgeting online tool and by developing local planning and development tools and realizing the Smart City Strategy, reducing bureaucracy, introducing online forms and digitize more services offered by the City Hall.

The rise of tourism in the area was also considered vital for the city, in this sense several efforts were made. The Municipality acquired the old industrial cable way, aiming to totally transform the old cableway, the reconversion of the funicular is a project that means more than just intervention on an industrial heritage object. The strategy of recovering an object with an important identity for Resita aims to unite the central urban area with the natural landscape in its vicinity, through pedestrian and bicycle access to a spectacular and adrenaline-filled view from over 30 meters routes.