Reindustrialization: The government provides fifty-five “turnkey” sites

This is one of the tension points of the reindustrialization of France: the possibility of finding available land to be able to set up industrial facilities. In order to respond to this difficulty, often raised by local elected officials or entrepreneurs, the Ministry of Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion presented on Tuesday 16 April a new system of industrial facilities intended for the French. or foreign investors.

A list of fifty-five sites was selected, representing a total of 3,342 hectares, spread across all metropolitan regions (except Corsica). Thirty of these sites are industrial wastelands awaiting rehabilitation. The smallest is 3 hectares (in Lanyon, Cote d’Armor), the largest is 340 (in Salis-sur-Sains, Isère), for an average surface area of ​​60 hectares.

Eight sites are located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (such as the Port of Arles area), seven in Normandy (including the Société Chimique de Oissel desert), six in Ile-de-France or Occitanie (such as the ArcelorMittal desert in the Gard- in), five in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Hauts-de-France (as the former Vieux-Reng airfield, in the north) or Grand-Est, only one in Réunion (activity). zone in Saint-Paul).

several criteria

Applications began to be accepted in October 2023 from inter-municipalities, as well as from public and private developers of available land. Twenty-eight local authorities, eleven private companies and sixteen public structures are among the selected project leaders. The locations were selected based on several criteria: economic opportunity for the given area, connection to infrastructure (water, electricity, digital), logistical accessibility and the presence of a local ecosystem with other businesses, universities or schools, training, employment pool, etc. .

In order to attract investors, the state is obliged to facilitate the administrative procedures in these areas in order to speed up the establishment of businesses. The investor will be able to benefit from engineering studies, legal expertise, as well as pollution diagnostics, with the help of the Ecological Transition Agency and Business France for foreign investors. Funding for these procedures is provided by Territories Bank, which is attached to the Quay Depot.