Strijp-S

Strijp-S is a neighborhood and former industrial park in the Eindhoven distrtict of Strijp. The area belonged to electronics company Philips. Since 2000 creative companies and housing have been established in the former industrial buildings. Eindhoven Strijp-S railway station serves the district.

The name Strijp-S comes from the naming pattern that Philips used in its industrial parks. Strijp-S was the first park, and Strijp-T and Strijp-R followed.

In 1916 Anton Philips built the first factory in Strijp-S a glass factory for incandescent light bulbs. The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium was completed in 1923. Strijp-S was where first radios, then televisions were invented and produced, as well as many other devices. The credo Van zand tot klant ("from sand to customer") stood behind the idea that Philips controlled every phase of production from research to storage, from glass blowing to cardboard factory: everything on one enormous piece of land.

In the 1990s Philips gradually left Eindhoven and in 2000 the first discussions took place about the repurposing of Strijp-S. In 2002 the land was sold for €140 million to Park Strijp Beheer B.V., a public private partnership between the city of Eindhoven and VolkerWessels. Philips was able to lease some of the buildings back temporarily until its full withdrawal in 2006, although there are still two small Philips departments present in the buildings SFH en SEY.

With the departure of Philips the plans was implemented to make the area a broad destination for the creative sector, including technology and design, under the English headline Old Buildings, New Ideas. The old factory buildings would be perfect for studios. In 2016 the creative school St. Lucas opened at Strijp-S.

In 2012 Strijp-S got its first permanent residents, when the SAS-3 project was completed (new construction). A year later the repurposed industrial SAN en SBP buildings were ready for residential use. Lofts replaced former television factories. The buildings were renamed GERARD and ANTON, in honor of two prominenta members of the Philips family. Many other residential complexes are planned such as Space-S and Blok 61, 63 and 59. Een jaar later zijn ook de industriegebouwen SAN en SBP klaar voor bewoning.

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