Avignon: launch of a call for projects for 14,000 m2, Courtine-Confluence district
Joel Guin, President of the Greater Avignonwho is taking the Courtine-Confluence file head-on, announces the launch of a call for projects over 14,000 m2, in the fall, on the 30 hectares immediately constructible. ” We are very much in demand by qualified investors for the construction of housing but also of head offices. “, specifies the president of the agglomeration. The lines are moving on this 200 hectare area where a number of unsuccessful projects have followed one another for 25 years. The call for promoters launched last year by the agglomeration of Grand Avignon, on a plot of 3,500 m2 located on avenue de la Gare, for the construction of a tertiary building, is currently of interest to three promoters. Their projects have attracted investors’ interest in the future flagship district of Avignon.
Creation of the SPL Grand Avignon Aménagement
” For the fittings, we accept the master plan and the architectural bias of Joan Busquets », adopt Joël Guin. The Spanish architect, requested by local elected officials, had drawn, in 2018, the outline of a future district on the first 100 hectares that can accommodate tertiary activities and 7,000 housing units.
Works against floods
To resume the development of this area, the agglomeration has set up, with the city, a local public company, Grand Avignon Aménagement, in March 2021. Florence Verne-Rey, which joined the new structure last January as a forerunner, is working on development opportunities in the Courtine-Confluence district. The area, partly constructible opposite the TGV station, is still subject to the PPRI (flood risk prevention plan). ” We have appointed to the Syndicat Mixte d’Aménagement de la Vallée de la Durance (SMAVD) work to reinforce the dyke sized to withstand a flood caused by a rupture of the Serre-Ponçon dam “, assures Joël Guin. Work was to begin in the fall.