The 'Porte Sud de Genève' (The Geneva's Southern Gateway): a broad outline

We are talking about the area situated between Saint-Julien, Archamps and Bardonnex which is a cross-border centre of regional and European dimension..

To see a clip and understand what is at stake in the project "the Geneva's Southern Gateway", click here.

The concept touches a large number of dimensions, arising from a global vision connected with a development adapted to the whole region. To better understand you have to look into each sphere :

Its forces
The strategic visions of its development
Its different sites
Its implementation

The concept "Porte sud de Genève" is riche of a number of forces:

Positioned as a link between the near centre of Geneva (town of international notoriety) and the network of French Alps region.
The opportunity for Geneva to have the advantage of a direct access to the European Union.
An excellent accessibility on roads and highways.
The potentialities of the development of the Site of Archamps, its university and research centre, in complementary to the Site of Cervonnex offers even more development possibilities.
A territory in the hart of "Grands projets" (Geneva/Paris high speed train through Haut-Bugey, motorway A41).
Magnificent natural assets and a typical environment of the Genevois: dominated by the Salève and underlined by the Vuache, this landscape has been preserved by reasonable policy continuing today by the SCOT (in French) of the CCG.

The "Porte Sud de Genève" represents also :

A strong attraction which is translated into a sudden augmentation of the population.(a clip)
A centre integrated in a territory which had taken charge of its future by establishing the first SCOT in the Haute Savoie and by the decision to manage its environment (Environmental guideline for the Salève, Contract of the Site of the Salève and the Vuache) and especially to manage his water through the cross-border river contract "between Arve and Rhone".

Four strategic visions are developed in the "Geneva's Southern Gateway" (Porte Sud de Genève) project :

The concept "Porte Sud de Genève" finds itself in the centre of a 'great project' ("grand projet") for cross-border development: the Franco-Vaud-Geneva metropolitan area project. (website in French and German) This implies :

To share common life space and promote a more equitable society, reinforce the international vocation of the agglomeration Franco-Vaud-Geneva, maintain and develop the quality of life in an attractive setting and develop a governance at the scale of the agglomeration.

The project "Porte Sud de Genève" is complementary to the existing projects of the territory of the French-Geneva region: " Rectangle d' Or" and " Etoile d'Annemasse ".

A coherent economic multi-site development

The Site d'Archamps (Website in French and English) and the years of its existence show on one hand the attractiveness of this border region for international companies (truly complementary with Geneva) and on the other hand the feasibility of an ambitious operation on this territory (from 0 to now 180 companies and 1780 employees in over ten years.)

The Site of Cervonnex represents a reserve of construction land with a potential to ether develop "grands projets" or economic activities complementary to the site of Archamps.
It is important to mention the other industrial zones on the territory to draw a coherent and diversified offer of activities.

The convention centre, a structure adapted to organise conferences and business meetings. This centre participates to promoting the territory with its economic and scientific resources and represents the first part of an economic entity.

Implementation of the concept "La Porte Sud de Genève"

The project "La Porte Sud de Genève" gives a new image to the territory of St.-Julien-Neydens-Archamps-Bardonnex and identifies the area as a strategic centre in the development of the Geneva agglomeration. Thus it has its place among the regional and national economic centres.

The management committee of the "La Porte Sud de Genève", which is constituted with French and Swiss Partners is co-ordinating the different actions proposed by the cross border working groups.

If you like to have more information about the concept of the project "La Porte Sud de Genève", please contact Mr.Bernard GIAZZI, responsible for the economic commission of the CCG under : 04 50 95 92 63

Concluding clip "la Porte Sud de Genève", here