Bussy-Saint-Georges

The town of parks and gardens

Bussy Saint-Georges is simply different. Only yesterday it was a village with just a few dwellings and a few shops and today its development is well underway and should be completed around the year 2010.

Between 1985 and 2006, the population of Bussy Saint-Georges grew by a factor of 36, from 500 to 18,000 inhabitants.
This growth is ongoing and the town should reach some 25,000 inhabitants by 2010. What took centuries in most towns will have only taken 25 years in Bussy.

It was back in 1985, when sector 3 of Marne-la-Vallée new town was coming off the drawing board, that the town took its destiny in its hands and opted for integration within the boundaries of the new town. The commune was therefore designated “new urban area” within the legal framework of a National Interest Project.

The ongoing rapid expansion in population numbers illustrates the magnetic power of attraction that the town holds for young career-minded families who decide to set up home in the “park and gardens” town of Bussy where intelligent real estate planning and an abundance of citizen services make for real quality living.
50% of the town’s inhabitants are under 30 years of age.
With such a young population, public facilities such as schools and child-minding, are of paramount importance.

Bussy Saint-Georges is synonymous with parks and gardens. The town today has 155 hectares of landscaped green areas, 9 kilometres of pathways for non-motorised use (cycle paths), 10 public gardens and parks in the town centre, 8 landscaped artificial lakes and more than 8,000 trees have been planted.

Indeed our town offers many advantages.
It is a truly impressive communications hub, ideally situated in the heart of Marne-la-Vallée new town, close to the A4 and A104 motorways, half way between the two Paris international airports and just a few minutes away from the TGV intercity railway station at Chessy Marne-la-Vallée.
The town has an excellent public transport service including an “RER” fast rail link and frequent buses.

More than forty world class firms such as SME Distribution France, Tech Data, Air Liquide, Fuji, Décathlon and Les Galeries Lafayette have chosen the modern solution and have moved into Bussy on the Gustave-Eiffel business park along the motorway. The future business parks on the south side of the A4 motorway and the Leonardo-da-Vinci business park will eventually house service and manufacturing industries.

As part of its strategy for building a promising future for Bussy, the town has an openly attractive policy towards investors with economic and commercial projects that are likely to satisfy the growing expectations of the town’s population and ensure a relatively high standard of living for them.

The town council would warmly welcome any development initiative that fits in with this ambitious programme.