Häagen-Dazs, Golden Brioche… Triangle businesses soon to be razed in Montpellier ?

Le projet prévoit la destruction de cinq espaces commerciaux de l'axe piéton le plus fréquenté de la ville. Midi Libre – GIACOMO ITALIANO

Un projet porté part la SA3M et la Métropole veut ouvrir le site sur le quartier Du-Guesclin.

The Triangle and its Jules-Milhau avenue, between Polygone and Comédie, the busiest pedestrian axis in the city (up to 100,000 people on the weekends before Christmas), could display a whole new profile. In any case, this is the wish, or the project, of the Metropolis. In a study by its developer, SA3M, dated June 27, as part of the Ricardo-Bofill ZAC, we learn that there is no question this time of a small patching up of the slab but businesses could simply be razed. Namely the Häagen-Dazs ice cream parlor then, further towards the Polygone, the premises housing Brioche Dorée, Eat salad, Macif, and Afflelou. As well as the right part of the Passage de l’Horloge (for the moment not occupied by a business), this with the aim of opening the site to the pedestrian streets of this southern part of the ’ Badge called Duguesclin district. In addition to a real facelift, this would open up this area and facilitate connections to the station.

Upper floor. Before: the triangle as it is today. After: the pink businesses were removed, creating passages towards Du-Guesclin. Midi Libre – S. Wauquier and SA3M

In the lower part ? Duplex businesses…

The lower part of the Triangle would also be completely revised. A huge commercial gallery would be created there and access to the shops from the upper floor, which would thus operate in duplex, "accessible from the upper level", indicates the project. All businesses on the lower floor would therefore be impacted and the open-air square and escalators on the former Polymômes level would then be removed. This would completely change this site, which has been left in disuse since the departure of the town hall to Port-Marianne in 2011.

Inferior stage. In yellow: the passage and the shops today. Afterwards: a reunified shopping center and access from above. Midi Libre – S. Wauquier and SA3M

Expropriations ? Preemptions ? 

Although it has the merit of existing, this project nevertheless seems unrealizable. Already because the Triangle is a private space with nearly 200 co-owners (residents of the building, traders, investors…). Just the businesses concerned bring together tenants, owners of the funds and owners of the premises. Expropriations ? Preemptions ? It will take much more than another municipal mandate for a new Triangle to take shape in this way.

The case of Pagézy recorded

The old town hall is at the heart of the Ricardo-Bofill ZAC, the prior consultation of which (onparticipate.montpellier.fr as well as at http://www.participier.montpellier.fr) the town hall and the metropolis) is open from this Monday until January 20. What to do with this building now that the start-ups that occupied it have taken over the direction of the Innovation Hall & Cambacérès ?

There was a time when it was a question whether it would be destroyed or whether it would make way for another. a huge tower. It would seem that the presence of asbestos makes things more complex. The only thing confirmed: the entrance and the entire ground floor which once housed the models of the city will be destroyed in the case of this future zac Bofill.

I subscribe to read more