If you now google ‘Strijp‑S’, you get more than half a million hits covering almost everything. Up to date and out of date, important and trivial jumbled together. This makes it difficult to keep up with all that’s happening in Strijp‑S, even if you live or work there. When actually you do want to get more of an idea of what’s going on.
Platform for Strijp‑S
The developments at Strijp‑S follow each other in quick succession. With three residential towers in the Spoorzone, the Space‑S complex in the triangle between Torenallee and Schootsestraat. With the new building for SintLucas in and next to the Natlab and the transformation of the Veemgebouw into the Vershal and a multi‑storey car park. But a lot of other things happen at Strijp‑S without them being visible from the outside. And, as mentioned, it is not always equally easy to find out what is happening and who is responsible for it. This courier wants to be a platform for developments large and small, events and happenings at Strijp‑S. To the extent that there are still newspapers that go by the name of courier, they are free local newspapers. And that is exactly what the Strijp‑S Courier wants to be. A free local paper for residents and companies at Strijp‑S and the surrounding neighbourhoods Drents Dorp and Philipsdorp.
Strijp‑S belongs to you
This zero issue of the Strijp‑S Courier has been filled and designed mostly by people who live and work at Strijp‑S. It will become clear whether this paper fills a need if an actual first issue appears after this sample issue. Also filled and created by the people from Strijp‑S. Because Strijp‑S does not belong to the council or Volker Wessels, but to the people who live and work there. It is also largely up to the residents to determine how the area will develop further. And development starts with information, for and by people from Strijp‑S. Of course, there will be a digital magazine next to the paper version, which will offer just that bit more space for background and visuals. In addition, digitally, we can respond to current developments even faster. You will find this bi‑lingual magazine at www.strijpskoerier.nl. Have fun reading, analogue or digital.
The editorial team