It's signed! On April 10, the mayor of Orléans (Loiret), Serge Grouard, and the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Philippe Gobinet, initialed the deed of sale of land, in the activity zone d'Interives, which will host the future Astrolabe 2.
Currently nestled above the ice rink, the current music stage, opened almost 30 years ago, will move by 2027. We are therefore still far from the first concerts, but this step is decisive for the rest of the project .
Four projects selected
The municipality spent 1.6 million euros to acquire this plot of 6,820 m² near the bridge which spans the tracks in Fleury-les-Aubrais. It previously housed the CCI’s “enterprise” space which was destroyed.
Astrolabe 2 will have a large modular room with 1000 to 1500 seats, a club room with 250 seats, rehearsal studios and technical and administrative premises. A competition was launched in the fall to choose the architect and his project but the results will not be known before the end of May.
“We had 140 applications, including a number of big names, with very solid applications. We have selected four that the jury will have to decide between,” explains the mayor, who promises a “superb” project, the total cost of which is announced at 18 million euros.
If the schedule is respected, work could start in the 3rd quarter of 2025, for a duration of just under two years.
Until then, the municipality will consider the use that could be made of the current Astrolabe room, while its director, Frédéric Robbe, promises to support "the transhumance of the public" towards this new place at construction thread. In music of course.