Jean-Luc Boujon 07h21, February 23, 2022
To facilitate the installation of companies on its territory, the city of Chalon-sur-Saône in the Saône-et-Loire has decided to rehabilitate former industrial wastelands in order to offer turnkey land.
The objective is indeed to attract new industrial players, and at the same time to create jobs.
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In Chalon-sur-Saône, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, to facilitate the installation of companies in the area, we decided to rehabilitate and develop former industrial wastelands to offer turnkey land and thus attract new industrial players.
Europe 1 went there.
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From the 1950s until 2017, the Philips-Nordéon wasteland was a site where neon lights were manufactured.
Today, all that remains is an abandoned site of seven hectares and old warehouses, explains Sébastien Martin, president of Grand Chalon.
"Here, we are in a completely disused building. You see, the machines have been removed, you have glass everywhere, you have a few balls of mercury... So the goal of the game is to clean it up and control things as much as possible. quickly as possible", he assures the microphone of Europe 1.
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Secure investments
Because since January 1st, Grand Chalon is the new owner of this wasteland.
That he will completely rehabilitate to create a turnkey site for industrialists.
"For seven hectares, we will put between 6 and 7 million euros. First, for security. Then we will raze everything, before rehabilitating the site, that is to say, ensuring that all the water, electricity and very high-speed internet networks are available at the entrance to the site", continues Sébastien Matin.
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"That means that when a company arrives, all it has to do is file its building permit. We do all the environmental studies that are necessary upstream to be able to set up. And like that, the industrialist has an investment that is secure."
A method already successfully tested in Chalon: the Kodak wasteland, 150 hectares large and whose project started in 2008, now has 350 companies for 6,500 jobs.
In the city, the unemployment rate does not exceed 7%.
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