The major Euratlantique urban development project, underway in Bordeaux, will be extended for ten years, until 2040. It will be financed by an additional envelope of 150 million euros, representatives of this public establishment announced this Friday .
Bordeaux Euratlantique, the largest urban development operation underway in France, outside Paris, should accommodate 50,000 inhabitants over an area of 738 hectares straddling Bordeaux and its neighbors Bègles and Floirac, on both banks of the Garonne. .
“Vegetation and carbon neutrality”
The project, recognized as an “operation of national interest” (OIN) since 2009 and managed by the State, will be extended until 2040 to allow in particular the construction of 25,000 housing units in total, the public establishment said in a press release. .
This extension will be financed by an envelope of 150 million euros of public money, including 35% coming from the State, 35% from the Bordeaux Metropolis, and the remaining third from the cities of Bordeaux (20%), Bègles ( 7%) and Floirac (3%).
“If the projects of the first decade were marked by a logic of reconquering wasteland (…), we must now continue efforts from the angle of the production of social and affordable housing, greening and carbon neutrality” , estimated the president of Euratlantique and EELV mayor of Bègles, Clément Rossignol-Puech, quoted in the press release.