A new phase of the beautification project, which began nearly 10 years ago in various neighborhoods of the city of Nice, has been launched. For this project, which covers an area of 70 hectares, the city has called on a National Program for the Redevelopment of Degraded Old Neighborhoods (PNRQAD).
After Ariane in two parts and Les Moulins, it is now the Notre Dame, Vernier, Thiers, and Lépante sectors’ turn to be revamped. The area concerns about 17,500 residents who mostly live in buildings dating back to before 1915 and 1974. The beautification projects (four in total) are mainly concentrated on the Trachel and Notre-Dame sectors, aiming to address degraded housing and develop services to improve the residents’ quality of life.
Thanks to the PNRQAD, with an amount of 78 million euros, 12 co-owned properties have been supported in implementing renovation works. Among the projects for the next three years are:
- Creation of 30 student accommodations (the “L’Abelha” residence delivered last year)
- Construction of social housing (delivered in November) and a 40-place daycare center (for 2022)
- Demolition of 10 buildings (Vernier street and Cour Bensa) to create 70 new accommodations (delivery from 2021 to 2024)
- Improvement of 19 apartments on Suisse street and extension of the “L’île des enfants” play area (end of 2023)
- Redesign of the traffic scheme for Trachel street (3rd quarter of 2021)
- Redevelopment and extension of Colonel JeanPierre square (end of 2021)
- Demolition of Cour Bensa (2024)
An ambitious project thus aiming partly to improve “the sometimes tense and difficult social climate with traffic, which we have been combating for years. We know that to put an end to all this, we must proceed through the neighborhood’s reconquest by its renovation and by distributing the mix of cultural, social, sports, environmental activities, the commercial activity and housing, the establishment of businesses… and here naturally it makes perfect sense”, explains Christian Estrosi, speaking of the Vernier, Trachel, Clément Roassal, and the transversal sectors. “My strategy since 2008, has been to reconstitute a village neighborhood idea in Nice (Libération, Le Ray…). You have all these places for reconquest that enable us to gradually reclaim neighborhoods through this notion where we bring commercial life with different dominant themes each time. And that’s what will happen here”.
