Cartesius Utrecht - City deal for pilot Healthy and Sustainable Food Environment
The Municipality of Utrecht and the Cartesius consortium, consisting of Ballast Nedam Development and MRP, signed the agreement letter for an innovative pilot in the context of the City Deal Healthy and Sustainable Food Environment at the PROVADA in Amsterdam. More than 2800 homes will be built in the large-scale healthy Cartesius area development in Utrecht, next to Zuilen station. Cartesius, inspired by the scientific theory of the Blue Zones, will be a lively, sustainable and healthy urban city district with parks, a primary school, a sports hall, a supermarket with an organic and healthy range, catering and space for culture.
Onno Dwars (CEO Ballast Nedam Development), Bart van der Vossen (Municipality of Utrecht) and Bart Meijer (CEO MRP) signed the City Deal at PROVADA
City Deal Healthy and sustainable food environment
The City Deal Healthy and Sustainable Food Environment started in October 2021. In the City Deal, eight cities, three ministries and various knowledge centers are working together to investigate how a healthy and sustainable food environment can be achieved. The aim of the City Deal is to experiment in an interurban pilot and learn how the food environment in cities can be made healthy and sustainable.
Cartesius Utrecht as a pilot project
The Municipality and the Cartesius consortium have decided to use the Cartesius area development as a Utrecht pilot project for the interurban City Deal. How do you turn a new residential area into a healthy residential area? What is the role of developers and the municipality and how can they work together to create a to realize a healthy residential area? The developing consortium of Ballast Nedam Development and MRP and the Municipality of Utrecht will answer these questions in the Cartesius pilot. With the signing of the letter of agreement by Bart van der Vossen (Director of Spatial Planning, also on behalf of Director of Public Health Bart Andriessen), Onno Dwars (CEO Ballast Nedam Development) and Bart Meijer (CEO MRP), the agreements have been made concrete.For the Dutch press release, please read here. 
