A place that combines art, culture, research and business acceleration in the heart of Turin.
The Ogr
- opened in 2017 thanks to one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in Europe - can be considered, as CEO Massimo Lapucci says,
"a unicum, a replicable model".
The numbers - presented in the event "Impact Report 2023 - Ogr Turin: a vision that becomes reality" - prove him right: 200 events and concerts per year, 300 artists, 2 million visitors since the reopening, 200 startups grown within it which have raised 260 million euros, 70 partners, over 500 jobs created, more than 70,000 followers on Facebook and 60,000 on Instagram.
THE LIVE
To open them and get them started, the Crt Foundation invested more than 100 million euros, using financial resources deriving from extra returns without drawing on its assets.
Founded in 1895 as a train maintenance plant, for a century Ogr - Officine Grandi Riparazioni represented excellence in the field of maintenance of locomotives and railway carriages.
After the Second World War they were used for the maintenance of railcars, but in the early 1990s they were closed.
For more than 20 years they remained abandoned, even risking demolition.
"The investment - explains Lapucci - made it possible to integrate technological solutions, environmental sustainability, protection of historical value, flexibility of spaces and accessibility. It was an act of giving back to communities and future generations. Today they are a real ecosystem of innovation and culture".
The multiplier effect in support of businesses was 30 euros for every euro invested: with an initial investment by the CRT Foundation of around 10 million euros - underlines Lapucci - the capital attracted by the OGR partners was more than 300 million, of which over 260 collected by startups with innovation programs.
The initial goal was to accelerate 1,000 start-ups and attract 500 million in funding in 15-20 years.
A successful bet?
"A machine in progress, with good foundations for the future which we hope will always grow" says Lapucci.