Paris plans world's largest startup incubator in former railway yard
by Kim Willsher in Paris from Technology | The Guardian on (#10EX2)
Halle Freyssinet is an ambitious a200m project city officials hope will attract 1,000 French and foreign tech entrepreneurs
In a corner of a previously rundown district in south-east Paris, hundreds of workers are tackling the challenge of turning a listed railway goods yard into an ultra-modern global hub for internet development.
The Halle Freyssinet is an ambitious a200m (150m) development that city officials hope will become the world's biggest startup incubator and attract about 1,000 French and foreign technology entrepreneurs. It is by far the biggest and most visually impressive of a series of projects that the Socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, hopes will put Paris on the international technology map.
