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The land had already been bought by Esso in 1957, even before the Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (EPAD) existed. Esso wanted its 1550 employees be able to work in a single comfortable and functional building.
On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks display. [8] In December 2005, Bernard Bled, CEO and chairman of EPAD (La Defense Management and Development Office) announced an ambitious nine-year development plan called "La Defense 2006–2015". This important modernisation plan has to give a new ...
Esplanade de La Défense (French pronunciation: [ɛsplanad də la defɑ̃s]) is a station on Paris Métro Line 1 on the outskirts of La Défense on the border of Courbevoie and Puteaux. It has an island platform because of limitations on space due it being enclosed in a site originally earmarked for one of the underpasses of the A14 autoroute ...
The Authority managing La Défense, the EPAD, has launched several contests for new towers in a large scale operation of renovation of the business district. Other proposed projects are currently being talked about in other municipalities of the inner suburbs such as Issy-les-Moulineaux , Boulogne-Billancourt or Saint-Denis .
EPAD may refer to: Electricity Price Area Differential, a financial product; a simple text editor written in Elementary and Python; Établissement public pour l'aménagement de la région de la Défense (EPAD), a French public industrial and commercial establishment concerned with La Défense, a business district near Paris
The land reserved twenty years earlier by L'Établissement public pour l'aménagement de la région de la Défense (Public Establishment for the Development of the La Défense Region, EPAD) for the extension, including in particular the La Défense - Michelet and Élysées - La Défense stations, therefore remained unused in favour of a passage ...
In 1992, while the RATP expanded the metro line, it ruled out a passage under the Seine, possibly 20 years early than the EPAD. It preferred instead to expand the line above the Seine, specifically by using the Pont de Neuilly. The new route in use today uses the station La Défense, about 100 m to the northwest of Élysées–La Défense.
Known during its conception as Eole (Est-Ouest Liaison Express), it is the fifth RER line. It terminates at Haussmann–Saint-Lazare, but a new project, financed by EPAD, the public authority managing the La Défense business district, should extend it west to La Défense–Grande Arche and the suburbs beyond.