Come 2016, Paris would be home to “1000 Start-Ups”, which would be the “world’s largest digital business incubator”.
Housed in the massive Halle Freyssinet building, a former railway hall, this massive start-up incubator would take up more than 300,000 square feet of space—when completed, it would house co-working areas, a fablab, a large auditorium, meeting rooms and a 24-hour restaurant-bar.
Primarily funded by telecom billionaire Xavier Niel, co-owner of the Le Monde newspaper, it is to be designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, who seems to have intention of building the new space around “container-based architecture” that references the site’s cargo train past.
With the ambitious goal of housing 1,000 start-ups under its roof, we are eager to find out what this incubator would cook up once it is fully fitted out and occupied.
Would you like to base your start-up company at a large-scale incubator like this?
[via Fast Co. Exist]