The foundations began to emerge Faubourg Saint-Jean, in Orléans (Loiret) in front of a police station.
The developer Sully Immobilier won the competition from the CCI du Loiret to transform this business school closed since the liquidation of Escem.
"The building was abandoned, we removed the bungalows," recalls Oriane Le Roy Liberge, regional director of Sully Immobilier Center-Val de Loire.
But the real surprise was underneath.
Once the old building was demolished, the excavators found large cavities, which had to be consolidated.
As elsewhere in the Johannine city, the basement served as a materials quarry.
"Limestone once made it possible to build the city, which is now a real Gruyere", testifies the person in charge.
The subject is not trivial.
A first promoter threw in the towel in the face of the scale of the consolidation work.
In Orleans, two wastelands are transformed into housing.
The work of the former business school is well advanced.
On this temporary axis between Orléans and Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, residents feared more traffic with the arrival of new residents.
“If we want to avoid the artificialization of soils, we must densify the city.
Here, the city center is very close, served by buses.
And the countryside is 10 minutes away by bike, ”replies Oriane Le Roy Liberge, who expects delivery in a year.
96 housing units on 4 and 5 floors, a crèche and local services, probably for the medical profession, will be available in a year.
This regional promoter has also joined forces with the French leader, Nexity, to transform the former factory of the automotive supplier TRW, near the Loire just at the entrance to Orléans in the town of Saint-Jean-de. -the small street.
Work on the former TRW factory will begin in a year to make way for 450 housing units with a view of the Loire.
The factory was demolished in 2011, there were pockets of oil in several places.
“We had to carry out studies and then a year of depollution before starting,” she explains.
As there is less and less virgin land, wastelands are a solution, even if their rehabilitation takes longer.
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450 housing units should be built on 2.6 hectares, perpendicular to the Loire, so that as many residents as possible can see the river.
The operation provides for 4-storey buildings, a senior residence, a 4-star hotel, shops and services.
The work should begin in a year, twelve years after having demolished the plant.
