SEGRO, a leading owner, developer and manager of modern warehouses, industrial assets and data centers, has signed a lease with WeChefs (Isalys Group), SEGRO’s new customer in France, for approximately 3,500 m² within the SEGRO Centre Corbas Montmartin 1 (69).
WeChefs designs, develops and provides catering professionals with shared food production laboratories, mastering the entire value chain, from R&D to facility sizing. The company will set up its first industrial unit in the Lyon region, with a target capacity of 25,000 meals per day and the creation, in the long term, of a hundred or so permanent jobs.
The Corbas site benefits from a particularly suitable location: in the heart of Lyon’s agri-food hub, in the immediate vicinity of the wholesale market, at the crossroads of the A46, A43 and A7 motorways, and about twenty minutes from Lyon and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport.
The leased area consists of a production hall of approximately 2,900 m² on the ground floor and nearly 600 m² of offices divided into the ground floor and R+1. The building has nine truck docks and floor-level doors. It also has a dedicated electrical power of 500 kVA – a rare level for an asset of this size, anticipated from the design stage, which allows the installation of the refrigeration equipment essential for food production.
This signature illustrates the industrial vocation of SEGRO buildings and their ability to accommodate job-creating activities, firmly anchored in the local economy. In a context of scarcity of suitable land in the heart of major cities, SEGRO continues to develop dense and operationally complex projects.
Jérôme David, Managing Director of WeChefs, says:
“The SEGRO Centre Corbas Montmartin 1 brings together all the assets we were looking for to set up our first production unit in the Lyon region: a position in the heart of the local agri-food basin, in the immediate vicinity of the wholesale market and major motorways, as well as infrastructures perfectly sized for our industrial requirements: dedicated electrical power, HGV docks in number, capacity to accommodate our refrigeration equipment.
This site will also house the teams of Labo Conseil, which designs and manufactures laboratories, as well as those of Isalys Consulting, another branch of the Isalys group, which will develop its pharmaceutical engineering consulting activity in the Lyon area. »
Laurence Giard, Managing Director France of SEGRO, says:
“The arrival of WeChefs at the SEGRO Centre Corbas Montmartin 1 demonstrates how our buildings can accommodate production activities in the heart of the Lyon metropolis. A demanding project, completed in just a few weeks, made possible by the trust and quality of the dialogue established between our teams and those of WeChefs, in the service of employment and the economic anchoring of the region. »
The lease will take effect on October 1, 2026, and the site is scheduled to start operating in the 1st quarter of 2027.
Technical sheet:
- Taker: WeChefs
- Active: SEGRO Centre Corbas Montmartin 1, Corbas (69)
- Leasing area: 3,500 m² (\u20122,900 m² production hall and 600 m² office space)
- Usage: Laboratory / Food Production Unit
- Features: multi-storey urban distribution building; HGV platforms and single-storey doors; dedicated electrical power (500 kVA); 42 parking spaces
- Effective date of the lease: 1 October 2026 (early availability)
- Start of operation: Q1 2027
- Certification: BREEAM Very Good
