With the Angers Gare +, the city jumps in the train of economic competition with others "major cities"

In the competition between towns to attract companies and jobs, Angers is going to set up "a business district which will match up those of others major cities" : the Gare + project. This district will take place near the Angers Saint-Laud railway station. At the South of the railways, the construction of a first building of 5 300 m2 has already begun. It will host offices and stores at the ground floor. On the North side (formerly filled by Sernam), the laying out is on the verge of starting.

The field will de divided in four parts : a three stars hotel with a services residence on the first, the three others being dedicated to office buildings of 15 000 m2. At the southernmost of the site a car park will be erected. Things could go fast : the two first elements should be delivered at the end of next year. It is higly desirable that Angers will stay connected to Paris and, throuhg that town, to major European cities with an high speed railway, an element that had been neglected twenty years ago when a project of a new railway line between Angers and Le Mans was on the table.

These programs, in addition to the fact they give work the the construction sector and to sub - contractors (some of them Angers companies), are part of the recent plan the Angers Loire Métropole Authority has recently voted for the years 2013-2017. These are good things but Angers city as well as Angers Loire Métropole must consider that everything useful to lower the cost of labor is key for the sucess of such policies : limited fiscal pressure for companies and households can't be ignored.