Grigy Technopolis

Grigy Technopôle is a primarily recent district located at the south-east of Metz and dominant of tertiary activity.

History

The old part of this district, made up around the village of Grigy and the farm High-Bevoye, still testifies to its agricultural past.

89% of the residences were carried out starting from 1949. The population is of 2.667 inhabitants. This population is divided into three categories:

inhabitants of Grigy;
students of the universities;
population related on the prison and the Gendarmerie.

The International exhibition of Metz (FIM) is inaugurated in Grigy in 1977. It was conceived to support the realization of any type of meeting, its modularity and its capacity of adaptation to the new data makes of this site a place of ideal reception, some is the event.

In 1983, one inaugurates the ZAC of the Technopôle of Metz.

The Technopôle accommodates 230 establishments and 4000 paid which are divided into three poles: companies of points related on telecommunication and information, universities and universities, and it business district made up of the Metz-Saarbrucken World Trade Center and the International Center of Congress.

The district also has important commercial surfaces.

Grigy Technopôle has many green areas (wood of Maccabée, golf, lake Symphonie) around whose these various establishments are organized.

Geography

The district is registered between the two slopes of the valley of the Gutter, in the south of Metz:

in the east, the landscape is closed on the heights of the wood of the Lady (249m), Aubigny (243m) and of the field of Mercy (250m).
in the west, the Extremely of Queuleu (230m) and the farm High-Bevoye (224m) form a watershed attenuated in an agricultural landscape which opens on the Seille.

See too

Districts of Metz

Ancienne City (Metz)
Bellecroix
Borny
In front of-the-Bridges
Barn-with-wood
Grigy Technopôle
the Islands (Metz)
Magny
Metz-center
Nouvelle City (Metz)
Patrotte Metz-north
Plantières Queuleu
Sablon
Vallières Border Them

Technopolis and the List of the technopolises in the world

External bonds

GéoMetz - interactive Plan of the town of Plane Metz
of the district Grigy Technopolis remote loading .pdf on GéoMetz
Local plan of Town planning of Grigy Technopolis
two belts of fortifications of the town of Metz (1867-1916) by François Hoff