By Jean Cittone
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
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This imposing project plans to create a 600-metre-long “park-street” between Saint-Jean station and the quays, in order to create a commercial artery in this dilapidated district.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
The stone city is changing. In the Saint-Jean train station district of Bordeaux, many buildings have been emerging for years, as part of the Bordeaux Euratlantique project, the largest urban development operation underway in France outside Paris. Among the emblematic buildings is the former “Bordeaux Street”a project initiated by the previous municipality, then greened by environmentalists. Became «Canopia»this project plans to raze several dilapidated buildings to create a new commercial and green axis. The real estate developer, Apsys, has just announced a major fundraising.
At 347 million euros (two thirds of the total cost of the project), the real estate company estimates that this is the “largest green financing of the year 2024 dedicated to an urban redevelopment project”. This significant sum will be allocated “in the service of the environmental ambition of the Canopia project”which provides for the rehabilitation of a site of almost four hectares, the opening of which is now planned for 2027. Apsys insists on “the environmental excellence of the project”including the revaluation or reuse of 95% of deconstruction materials, an unprecedented bioclimatic design of the buildings, the planting of more than 600 trees and the greening of 9,000 m² of facades and 3,500 m² of roofs.
The Canopia project should be completed in 2027. Apsys / Bordeaux Euratlantique
13,000 m² of outdoor public spaces
Canopia will include 12,000 m² of hotels, 10,000 m² of restaurants and 6,400 m² of housing, as well as offices, leisure areas and rooftops. The future district will also bring together 13,000 m² of outdoor public spaces. Leading next to the Château Descas, reopened to the public after 16 years of closure, the future artery will open onto a new park of more than two hectares, which will require the demolition of an old road leading from the Pont Saint-Jean to the Pont de Pierre and the redirection of part of the traffic.
The Canopia street-park project is one of the major projects that should transform the city of Bordeaux by 2030, alongside the rehabilitation of the quays on both banks and the creation of a district «bas carbone» at La Jallère. The recent inauguration of the Simone-Veil bridge finally linked the first achievements and brought together the districts resulting from the Euratlantique project located in three municipalities on both banks of the Garonne.
