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Birth and Genesis of the Project

Local councillors’ wanted to create a new space to welcome companies into the region, a new space that differed from existing sites in the surrounding area.

As a result, strategic discussions involving various local economic actors began in 2001. Discussions revolved around three key requirements:

  1. To create a business park that would strengthen the image of tertiary sector companies and that would increase the district council’s property portfolio. This portfolio included several specialised sites: logistics, industrial, commercial and SME/SMI

  2. To ensure that the result was a model example of environmental preservation, as the site is an area of outstanding natural beauty located at the foot of the Moselle hills.

  3. To move away from the traditional functional vision of complexes of this kind in which each site is dedicated to a specific activity, and instead create a living space, both for company employees and the local population.

Building work, projects, facilities and natural areas

This approach resulted in the following development choices

  • To create transferable lots perfectly integrated into their surroundings
  • To use pedestrian footpaths and cycle tracks to circulate within the complex
  • To make use of water as an influencing and valuable resource within the complex by rehabilitating streams and their banks and by creating rainwater catchment pools.
  • To promote existing flora, and adopt a planting strategy that prioritises local species
  • To integrate a cultural dimension into the development by using features such as archaeological relics collected during digs
  • To preserve views over the hills by restricting the height of future buildings, and by conserving openings where possible
  • To prioritise quality both in the development of the communal spaces and in the choice of site furnishings.

Planned Building Work

  • Creating the complex's internal circulation network: a provisional phase of road works followed by a final phase after the majority of plots have been sold
  • Construction of the main inter-connecting routes and sites, and their connection to existing networks
  • Green spaces: neutral areas flanking traffic routes will be grassed, roads will be bordered by lines of trees and private areas will undergo preliminary landscaping (wooded screens, planted boundaries, a selection of planted shrubs depending on the plot location), following a plan for the entire complex designed by a landscape gardening firm
  • Rainwater catchment pools: sealing of base and walls, spraying of topsoil and planting of specific vegetation that will both limit wall erosion and absorb some of the pollutants transported by water flow

At the current time the second phase of building work is complete: 2/3 of the surface area of the park is now operational. The study relating to the 3rd phase will be carried out during 2009

The completion of the ECOPARC project represents an investment of 23 million euro (all taxes included) for the Combined District Council of Maizières-Lès-Metz.

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