Work on the Tour Triangle should begin by the end of the year.
But the LR mayor of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, Philippe Goujon, will ask for the postponement of this controversial project.
In a wish that must be adopted Monday in the borough council before being submitted to the municipal council beginning on November 16, the elected representative asks "that the Triangle Tower project be suspended pending the adoption of the new bioclimatic PLU (Plan local d'urbanisme) ”which will regulate construction in the capital at the end of 2023.
The lessor, the shopping center giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) which will own it for 80 years, announced Monday that the site would start by 2022, with the financial support of the insurer Axa, to be completed in the horizon 2026. But for Philippe Goujon, "the arguments put forward in 2008 to justify the construction" of this tower, which "will obstruct the landscape of the south of the 15th century and well beyond", are "obsolete". "Dated", the Triangle tower "probably no longer meets the needs of companies that the Covid-19 crisis and the development of teleworking are leading to rethink", underlines the mayor, opposed to the project since its launch in 2008.
Other historical opponents of the project, the Greens will also submit a wish to the next Council in Paris, asking it to abandon a project that they see as an "ecological aberration".
“Mathematically, there is a majority against this project.
It would be a shame that we cannot find it, ”reacted Emile Meunier (EELV), questioned about the possibility of an alliance between environmentalists, allies of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo, and the right-wing opposition and of the Center.
The elected ecologist, president of the town planning and housing commission, asks that "all means be implemented, including policies, to bring down this tower".
The project "not completely stopped in detail"
The first deputy (PS) Emmanuel Grégoire estimated Wednesday that the city of Paris "could no longer stand in the way" of the construction of this 180 m high tower since the green light given by the Council of Paris in 2015 and the issuance of the building permit in 2017.
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The final project for the 42-storey building, which will notably house a four-star hotel, more than 2,000 square meters of shared workspace (coworking), a health center and a cultural space, is "not totally stopped in detail ”, indicated Emmanuel Grégoire for whom“ we still have a lot of time to refine the program ”.
