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Monday, June 21, 2010

Regional news. Hauts-de-Seine – the second most popular location choice for businesses in Paris Region


Located directly adjacent to the La Défense business district and boasting an exceptional economic environment, the département of Hauts-de-Seine is one of the most attractive locations within Paris Region.
Outside the capital itself this is the region’s leading area for company start-ups, and today hosts 99,052 businesses, with 825,000 employees and a total population of 1.55 million.


This is also the no.2 area for international company location in Paris Region, hosting 2,500 international businesses, one third from the USA.
Hauts-de-Seine offers optimum conditions for hosting businesses, with a dense, high-quality real estate offering totalling 11.7 million sq.m, concentrating nearly half of all office premises marketed in Paris Region as a whole.


Hauts-de-Seine is located at the hub of a dense transport network, with Metro, RER and motorway connections ensuring easy accessibility to all the key regional, European and international economic centres.

Key sectors:
-Digital and ICT (23,600 companies, 276,100 jobs)
-Healthcare and biotechnology (5,300 organisations, 25,000 jobs)
-Finance and insurance (3,000 organisations, 78,000 jobs)
-B2B services (30,000 companies, 338,000 jobs)

Research – key figures:
300 research centres
15,000 researchers
77,000 students

La Défense – key figures:
-Europe’s no.1 business district
-160 hectares
- 3 million sq.m of offices
-3,500 companies, 1,500 head offices, 170,000 employees
-Europe’s no.1 public transport network
-230,000 sq.m of local retail outlets

Sources: Les Hauts-de-Seine, un territoire à vocation internationale; Enjoy La Défense Seine-Arche

Photos: © ARD/Michel Derouault


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Friday, April 24, 2009

La Défense continues to expand

Plans for not one but two skyscrapers were unveiled at MIPIM 2009 by the developer Hermitage and the architect Norman Foster. The twin buildings, called Hermitage Plaza, 321 and 323 metres high and providing space of 250,000 sqm (2.7 million sq.ft), are being built on the Les Damiers site, and are scheduled to be completed by 2014. The first 91-storey tower block will house a 5-star hotel with more than 200 rooms, a spa and apartments with panoramic views. The lower section of the second, 93-storey building will be occupied by offices while the rest will be for housing. Both towers will be twisted and built over a huge square as big as the Place du Trocadéro in Paris, where there will be shops, restaurants, cafés, an auditorium and a contemporary art gallery.

 

Another project to convert office blocks into housing has already been discussed by La Défense’s development board EPAD. Although the actual buildings involved were not specified, it will most likely concern first-generation tower blocks built in the 1970s.Publier le message

 

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Olivier ABESSOLO - Paris Region Economic Agency