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Tour Triangle in Paris: alone against all, the promoters keep their course

2022-03-10T15:29:45.162Z


A neighborhood committee dedicated to the controversial site oscillated between boos and promises of new legal battles this Wednesday evening


It's not easy to give a little appeal to a project so rejected, so (almost) unanimously contested, attacked both on its aesthetics and its usefulness, its environmental virtues, its site, its 90,000 square meters of "useless" offices, its cost, even the honesty of its attributions.

The promoters of the Triangle tower project tried their hand at it, this Wednesday evening in front of an exceptional neighborhood committee devoted to the construction site, but only received boos, and promises "to use all possible means to continue to oppose it. “, as recalled by the mayor (LR) of the 15th century, Philippe Goujon, headwind against this “project of pure speculation” for almost… 13 years.

From its first mention.

“It is all the same strange that this project, refused by 81% of the inhabitants during the public inquiry, and which concentrates so many unfavorable opinions, sees the light of day despite this total opposition because a vote, moreover questionable , had it adopted by a few votes in advance at the Council of Paris ”, mocks the elected official.

The “mastodon” of 15,000 tons of concrete and steel also seems to him “a denial of democracy”.

The construction site began despite an investigation by the national financial prosecutor's office

Exactly one month after the launch of the foundations of the gigantic construction site carried out by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the pyramidal tower and its 180 meters high, on the fringes of the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles (15th century), is definitely settling in as the one of the most contested projects of the next four years.

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Contested long before his first architectural drafts, contested during public inquiries, contested after obtaining his building permit, contested despite the rejection of appeals to the administrative court, contested the day of the laying of his first stone, and still in the sights of investigators from the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), after several complaints for the offense of favoritism in this pharaonic project.

The manufacturer remains marble in the face of attacks

Wednesday evening in the room, the architects' visuals, the promises of consultation over the course of the long construction site, and the arguments of the general manager of the project, Mourad Akl, and the construction manager Elias Raouf, did not that reinforce the anti-Triangle and the inhabitants of the Porte de Versailles district in their desire to fight.

“We don't want it and we won't have it,” asserts Christine Nédelec, president of France nature environment Paris (FNE).

Nor the creation of a crèche with 60 cradles, a super health center, 800 square meters of shops, a hotel, a 3,000 square meter terrace and a tower "open to all" did not find favor in the eyes and ears of a public already convinced of the contrary.

In the end, a bit annoyed by this "communication operation" evening by Triangle officials, the president of FNE Paris confirms "exploring all legal avenues" to definitively derail the project.

A threat that leaves the project director unmoved‚ who announces the end of the infrastructure project and the start of the "superstructure" from mid-2023.

Source: leparis

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