COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
The real estate market
Why choose Lille Metropole?
Deciding where to set up your business is…
…being attracted by a buoyant business environment with many large potential customers plus service providers that match your needs,
…choosing to live in an attractive locality with an abundance of human resources, where people have access to training, culture and entertainment,
…setting down in a particular spot, but with the idea of being able to work anywhere at the heart of an economy without borders.
Lille Metropole is…
…Europe’s top remote distribution and selling centre, Europe’s n°1 consumer finance and credit centre, France’s leading centre for industrial fabrics, the capital of France’s top region in terms of foreign direct investments after the Paris Region, the second city in France for the location of international corporate headquarters…
…15th European metropolis, Franco-Belgian, with 2,200,000 inhabitants, the second largest education centre in France with more than 150,000 students and 250 laboratories employing more than 3,000 teacher-researchers, a major cultural capital (European Capital of Culture in 2004, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille – second largest general interest museum in France, an average of more than 20 festivals per year), 180,000 hectares of natural parks, the immense beaches of the North Sea less than an hour away…
…24 daily TGV high-speed train links with Paris, 18 with Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, 13 with Brussels and 11 with London. It is France’s third inland port, its second railway hub, its fourth freight airport…
