This is the first building you see when you arrive in Florange via Terville. The old Moulin de Daspich has been abandoned for many years. The industrial building, which incidentally only lived as a mill until the end of the First World War before becoming a warehouse of goods for Wendel’s house, is now “a wart” in the landscape. All the elected officials from Florence made the same observation.
“It is a real problem of attractiveness for the entrance to the city”, insists Rémy Dick, mayor. The municipality therefore decided to buy the building with a view to demolishing it, although it is located on the town hall of Thionville.
The sale was negotiated between Florange and the private owner for € 200,000. “Not expensive paid”, assumes the mayor, “in view of the detestable appearance given to the entrance to the city”, even if for the service of the Estates the value of the property was less than 180,000 €.
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Who should pay?
This acquisition is however denounced by Michèle Bey. For the opposition municipal councilor ( Florange New Horizon ), if the building must be demolished, it was not up to the City to finance this purchase, to which must be added the costs of demolition and asbestos removal. “There is something else to do in the city with this sum, in improving existing municipal buildings for example … The Florangeois are very kind to pay in place of their neighbors”, underlines the elected.
The purchase proposal was however adopted by a majority of the board (minus three votes).
After the demolition of the Daspich tunnel in 2019, “it is an important first step to give a new boost to attractiveness to this sector” insists the mayor who also mentioned the opportunity to assert his right of preemption on other abandoned buildings rue d’Alsace. “A reflection is open”.
The site of the old Daspich Mill (40 ares) has also been proposed to Sdis 57 for the possible construction of a new mutualized rescue center for the municipalities of Florange and Terville.
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