Arexpo, a publicly controlled company, is tasked with engaging with extensive areas in need of regeneration to encourage their transformation into vibrant places through successful private-sector partnerships. The role of the company is to provide support in in all phases of the process of transforming complex areas, from analysis, organization, and planning to design and implementation, also providing procurement support and facilitating dialogue and the formation of partnerships with private operators interested in investing on specific contextes. Arexpo is a gateway to Italy because each project carried out by AREXPO implies the direct commitment of the national and local governments. Arexpo relies on a network of relationships with national and international partners of excellence in the fields of finance, urban development, higher education, research, and innovation. Majority shareholders are public institutions: Ministry of Economy and Finance, Lombardy Region, Municipality of Milan, Metropolitan Milan, Municipality of Rho.

Arexpo has already initiated various regeneration projects in Lombard municipalities, supporting each administration in giving value to its territory throughout new functions and facilities. Among others, the ongoing projects consists of: the creation of a new innovation hub in Seregno; the valorization and conversion of three brownfields in Lainate, trasforming the site of the former city hall in Rho with the construction of a multipurpose service centre open to citizens; upgrading of the district of science, research, and knowledge of the University of Pavia with the installation of new high-grade environmentally sustainable services.