Building permit obtained through Amazon for a warehouse near Nantes

The site covers an area of 10 500 m2, 9500 m2 of warehouse," says Véronique Dubettier-Grenier, the mayor of Carquefou.

The american giant of online commerce Amazon obtained at the end of 2019 a building permit to install a warehouse said the "last mile" on an area of 10, 500 m2 in Carquefou, a-t-we learned Wednesday at the city hall of this commune of the agglomeration of nantes.

"A building permit has been granted to Amazon to build a warehouse on Carquefou," said the mayor of the city, Véronique Dubettier-Attic, confirming information of the local press. "In Carquefou, the multinational will not open a site logistics giant like Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), or Lauwin-Planque (Nord) but a building is more modest", according to Ouest-France.

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The site covers an area of 10 500 m2 9500 m2 warehouse and what I've been able to get as information is that it is 'the warehouse of the last mile,'" said Ms. Dubettier-Attic, including the town of nearly 20,000 inhabitants, is located to the north of Nantes.

"the warehouse of The last mile"

The building permit is located on a "brownfield site undergoing revitalization," where was installed the factory Seita, closed in 2015. The building permit, which "respects the rules of the PLUM" (local development Plan-metropolitan, editor's note), was granted in late 2019, has assured Véronique Dubettier-Grenier, saying that she did not have other elements, in particular on the construction schedule.

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at the End of 2018, the name of a neighbouring municipality, Grandchamp-des-Fontaines, had been mentioned about a possible installation of Amazon in the region of nantes. But the project raised so much more vast in terms of area, is not one that has been recognised for Carquefou, says Véronique Dubettier-Attic. "We were on a different scale as the project type, then it is the warehouse of the last mile," she pointed out.

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