Inauguration ceremony to mark the end of the rehabilitation of the Mèze Ecosite

Le traditionnel ruban a été coupé, sous la pluie, par les élus. Midi Libre – PHILIPPE MALRIC

Lancée en 2019, la modernisation des bâtiments, et de la voirie, de l'Ecosite de Mèze, a été inaugurée jeudi 11 janvier.

The inauguration of the modernization of the Mèze Ecosite, Thursday January 11, was particularly successful. Not that the elected officials, institutions, partners, company managers in the sector had particularly lingered over the bottles of the wine of honor but the clouds had – finally – decided to clear 39;open thus disrupting the late morning program.

Visit of the site and the companies present

It was therefore in the new premises of Greensea (algae cultivation specialist) that the speeches took place after a wet visit to the company. exterior of the premises of Entech (consulting engineers), Ardam (association of resources and development of environmental activities and professions) and Acqua.Ecologie (water treatment and recycling), the companies present on the site.

Homage to Piétrasanta

Launched in 2018, the rehabilitation, carried out by the agglomeration of Sète for a budget of 4 million euros, concerned, in several phases, the renovation of the premises of Entech, the ;Ardam, of the amphitheater, of the new Greensea premises in the large hall, before the repair of the road passing between the buildings of this site desired by Yves Piétrasanta in the 80s. " You had to be courageous and visionary at the time to create that,” commented Thierry Baëza, the mayor of Mèze, paying tribute to the former mayor. "Creating employment around the environment, we had to imagine it" he continued while thanking the agglomeration of Sète "for the development of the site which will give it a new lease of life".

Fleuron of our blue growth pole

François Commeinhes, the president of Sète Agglopôle, will go in the same direction by evoking this rehabilitation "to have an Ecosite flagship of our blue growth pole emblematic of Sam's economy This is how its initiators and in particular the founding president of the CCNBT Yves Piétrasanta imagined it in the 1980s, a pioneer of the environmental avant-garde for which we all have a thought today. And to say that "the conditions are met here to promote the development of a true economic pole of blue growth". And generator of employment.

Decrease in unemployment rate

On this subject, the president of the agglomeration took the opportunity to underline "the'voluntarist action" of the super structure in its economic zones with "an unemployment rate which, while it remains significant, has just fallen below the departmental average". An action also praised by Guillaume Raymond, the sub-prefect of Hérault, congratulating Sète Agglo for the "establishment here of a territory allowing each stadium of' #39;evolution of a business. It was then time to go out into the rain to cut the ribbon.