Can cities/regions lease factories out similar to how airports operate?

From my impression, one reason Trump is so popular is that a lot of his supporters genuinely believe he's going to bring manufacturing back to the United States. It's a popular idea when talking about it from the podium, but I haven't heard any compelling ideas. There are hundreds, if not thousands of old & abandoned factories across the US that are just rotting away. My question is whether a solution that could bring manufacturing back is that towns or regions could use whatever tools at their disposal to own these sites, clean them up, modernize them & lease them out to firms rather than risking a firm coming in only to leave the factory abandoned again. The firm would lease it from the community, there would be various strings attached of course, but the town benefits from having someone use the factory & the firm doesn't have the overhead of owning the facility.

This idea already exists in the form of airports – the city owns the airport & airlines pay to use the airport. The airport doesn't close just because a major airline doesn't operate there anymore. Could the same be applied to factories or other manufacturing assets?