“The attractiveness of a territory lies first in health and safety. On these two subjects, we are investing massively in Chartres Métropole where so many things have hatched and so many successful projects and so many new ones starting up. It’s the crisis outside and it’s energetic in Chartres ”, launched Jean-Pierre Gorges, president of Chartres Métropole, from the start of his 2023 wishes to the economic actors of the territory, Monday evening at Chartrexpo.
Companies are not looking for ZAs
In a decoration bathed in light beams and very well cared for up to the chairman’s desk, Jean-Pierre Gorges insisted on the success of his endogenous economic model which gives pride of place to companies already established locally and which serve as examples for attract news.
“Here, the future is only what will happen to us. The future is what we have decided to do. Our vision of the territory, you know it: we say what we are going to do and we carry out what we have said. Companies will not come here for business areas. They will come there for the quality of life, services, culture and sport. »
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Thus, Jean-Pierre Gorges recalled the opening in 2021 of the hotel of the agglomeration which welcomes new companies. According to him, more than 100,000 procedures were managed there in the first year.
” After having opened the Off in the premises of the former cinema, the Colosseum is being built near the station with 4,000 seats to vibrate around our sports teams or to shiver with emotion during extraordinary cultural events. It will also be an arena for our economic events. »
The president of Chartres Métropole welcomed the great progress of the work around the station pole, which has changed its appearance for 20 years, thus marking a marked gap between “the time of the projects and the political time”.
After the delivery of the large footbridge which overhangs the railway tracks, the security devices, the pedestrianization of the surroundings, the station pole is preparing, according to Jean-Pierre Gorges, has delivered a parking lot with 1,100 places.
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“The car park will be used during the day for the station and in the evening for the Colosseum. Our territory is moving and successful. The proof ! You are nearly 15,000 companies to develop there. Our Business Garden is full, our incubator at CM 101 is dynamic and full. We need to expand there. First, by supporting companies that grow here. This is what I call endogenous development”, assures the president of the Chartres conurbation.
Jean-Pierre Gorges wished a strong cohesion to the economic actors of Chartres Métropole
Jean-Pierre Gorges also wants to take advantage of the culmination of the A154 file, the construction of which should be launched soon to “complete the areas of activity and extend them. It is necessary, companies need it. The dynamics of our territory demand it. »
The man who wants to turn a crisis into an opportunity spoke to Élisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, whose action he supports in this period of energy crisis, to suggest that he strike a blow in this file: “ It takes a strong gesture. Water and electricity must be classified, basic necessities with a rate voted in the National Assembly. We cannot rely on the financial markets for this type of resource. In this tariff, the engineers will find the most effective solutions and the most adapted to the constraint posed. This will involve nuclear power, in part… Generation 4 of the Astrid project will enable us to reuse our nuclear waste ad infinitum rather than burying it. The solutions exist, we have to build them. »
Jean-Pierre Gorges did not exclude other energies and he said he believed in the future of renewable energies.
