The new Gare du Sud takeover project was presented this Thursday, June 16. Exit Urban Renaissancethis is the group IT who will take over the premises. The brand is already known in Nice since it is behind the Italian Trattoria restaurant. His boss, Renato Iera will propose his project “Méditerraneo”, around all Mediterranean cuisines, while making them accessible. Restaurants and bars with open counters will be installed.
The Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi declared in particular: “thehe City of Nice has also chosen a group that knows the Gare du Sud perfectly and appreciates the development opportunity it contains”.
The City of Nice fervently hopes that the project can be completed by the end of the year.
Against proposal among elected environmentalists
The opposition politicians took over the Gare du Sud hall project. Juliette Chesnel-Leroux, President of the environmental group at the Nice town hall: “Rents for traders, around 5,000 euros, are too high; accordingly prices for customers as well. The community must regain control of this hall. We want to integrate the merchants of the Liberation market, in addition to bars and restaurants, and set up associations on the floors so that there is a cultural life..”
Elected environmentalists demand a investigative committee for break the contract with the developer Urban Renaissance, which holds the emphyteutic lease of the Gare du Sud for 45 years. “The promoter had to invest 11 million euros, he did not do it. This hall is a failure, it’s emptying. Merchants are fired because they can’t pay the rent“, continues Juliette Chesnel-Leroux.
Ecologists call for the creation of a semi-public companywhere the rent corresponds to a percentage of the turnover.a