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Paris: before its inauguration, the renovation of the Louvre post office divides

2022-01-09T18:09:08.705Z


This Monday afternoon, the site will be inaugurated in the presence of the Minister of the Economy and the Mayor of Paris after seven years of closure to the public.


Things are happening again around the ex-Poste du Louvre, located between the streets of the Louvre, Jean-Jacques-Rousseau and Etienne-Marcel, in Paris.

Between the luxury hotel, the restaurant, the offices, the shops, the nursery, the police and social housing, the former Post Office (35,000 square meters of floor space) comes back to life after having dropped the curtain in 2015.

The legendary post office which operated all night will resume on rue du Louvre the week of January 17th.

Will it be open at the same extended hours?

La Poste is due to announce it this week.

In the meantime, the inauguration of the real estate complex will take place this Monday afternoon in the presence of the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, the mayor (PS) of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the mayor. (PS) from the center, Ariel Weil.

"Starting from a building with an almost exclusively industrial vocation, we have carried out a program of great diversity, both functional and social", rejoiced this fall Rémi Feredj general manager of Poste Immo, a real estate subsidiary of La Poste, owner of premises.

A project that is too touristy?

A mix that does not displease the mayor of the borough. “It's real social diversity. Next to a luxury hotel, there are social housing, a crèche but also an urban logistics platform for the Post, ”says Ariel Weil. A limited social mix, however, since on site only 17 social housing units were created against 15,000 square meters of offices and a hotel with 82 rooms (including 19 suites), as well as two restaurants.

“If it had been possible, I would have done more social housing. But it is the economic logic essential to financially hold this type of project ”, pleads the elected official. Ariel Weil is nonetheless satisfied: “This real estate program has made it possible to maintain and enhance a heritage that belongs to everyone. And it restores public space with the opening of passages, one of which is inside the building. "

A new island of activities which is far from gaining unanimity within the municipal majority.

“One more luxury shopping center and bars and restaurants in central Paris.

We give a tourist vocation to this site to the detriment of the residential function and the quality of life of the inhabitants ”, sighs Jacques Boutault, deputy (EELV) to the mayor of Paris center and former mayor of the 2nd arrondissement.

"To redo yet another luxury hotel when there is already that of the Samaritaine a few cables, I do not see the point", insists Corine Faugeron, advisor (EELV) of Paris center.

Source: leparis

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