Grand Paris Specialities
“Grand Paris” (“The Greater Paris”) is a name of a project launched by the French government to turn the capital into a modern competitive world-class industry metropolis with its own production and sufficient number of workplaces. The Grand Paris is structured in three changes relevant to its core tasks: to create an efficient innovation system, to ensure a balanced growth of socially agglomeration (to prevent further social stratification), make the development of the urban environment under control.
La Défense Seine Arche
One of the components of this grandiose plan is the project of La Défense Seine Arche. This business area is developed by EPADESA, a French public development authority. La Defense Seine Arche plays a major role on several levels: it is a decisionmaking hub for the Paris economy, a hub for the Seine basin, and a major centre for the northern arc connecting airport and waterway port platforms. It is above all an international business district, and one of the four strategic assets of the ele-de-France region (Paris, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Plateau de Saclay), which represents 15% of the regional services sector production (as a yearly average for La Defense since the 1970s). Its vitality generates powerful ripple effects in all the neighbourhoods around La Defense.
La Defense Seine Arche and the La Defense business district in particular are locations both for the headquarters of large groups, and also small and medium companies, attracted by the potential of a close relationship with companies in the international economy, and centres of higher education (Leonard de Vinci, ESSEC and IESEG, Ecole Nationale d’Assurances, Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lille, etc.). The diversity and quality of services to businesses and individuals, the amenities, the residential and commercial accommodation facilities (local as well as surrounding regional) and also the quality of life are assets that attract residents and businesses.
New transport options, new business activities, new housing programmes all in a quality sustainable environment, that’s what La Defense Seine Arche is all about in the Grand Paris. The quality of life and amenities offered by the La Defense Seine Arche territory, as well as throughout the surrounding inter-town neighbourhood, play an additional role in its attractiveness.
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