In Béziers, at the Hours crossroads, we are making a clean sweep of the past for a vast project
The former Médica Sud store was razed this Friday, April 15. A simple step in the ambitious ZAC project carried out by Viaterra for 2024-2025 on eleven hectares and 180,000 m2 of floor space!
The old Médica Sud store is no more. Friday, April 15, in the morning, a backhoe loader destroyed in a few hours the facades of this strategic building at 1, rue François-Feynes, which overlooks the crossroads of Hours, formerly a place of sale and rental of medical and surgical equipment. and more formerly local of France Pare-brise.
A page has therefore been turned and it is not insignificant. At the junction of the Heures district and the beginning of the city center, the building played a pivotal role. He will find it. In about a year, a brand new six-storey building will succeed it. On the ground floor, it will accommodate commercial and service activities, even health. And, on the floors, offices.
Viaterra has full land control
On the practical side, rue François-Feynes will still remain closed to traffic in the coming weeks, the time to redo the road and improve the circulation of pedestrians and vehicles. The passage of pedestrians is maintained.
This demolition is part of the vast project of the Concerted Development Zone of the Hours, named Viaterra (read Free lunch of April 13). The development company’s mission is to carry out this major urban development over no less than eleven hectares and 180,000 m2 of floor space! “We have now withdrawn from all land control. The last lots are in the process of finding takers to acquire this entire ZAC. It’s a very nice project”, assures Joël Daures, president of Viaterra.
On arrival, it is an ambitious set of buildings with a mixed use of shops, offices and housing that will see the light of day, by 2024-2025 between the judicial city and the Edouard-Herriot school and beyond, around the courthouse, with a walkway to avenue Wilson and the Polygone centre. A neighborhood that will experience profound change.
Soon the turn of Hertz
Backhoe loaders are not done with the Hours crossroads. In a few months, it will be the turn of the Hertz vehicle rental brand, located between the building razed yesterday and the pharmacy at the Carrefour de l’Hours (which will remain where it is with a probable makeover), to be destroyed. . Discussions are underway between local authorities, Viaterra and local merchants to relocate activities. The Hertz brand could be relocated very close to its current location.