Caisse des Dépôts and its subsidiary Icade, on the one hand, and the Nexity and Eiffage real estate groups, on the other, won Friday the Olympic Village worksites, which will welcome the athletes to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the north. from Paris. These two groups will develop two lots of building land of about 50,000 m2 each in Saint-Ouen, announced the prefect of the region Ile-de-France, Michel Cadot. The decisions were taken unanimously by the jury which, in addition to the prefect of region, gathered elected officials, senior officials and Tony Estanguet, president of Paris-2024, organizing committee of the Olympics.
A two-phase construction site
The projects go beyond the Olympics as they plan to turn the site into a big neighborhood of housing and activities. The construction will take place in two phases: in the summer of 2024, an Olympic version to accommodate 15,600 athletes and their companions. Then, the village, which stretches over 51 hectares, straddling three communes (Saint-Ouen, Saint-Denis, Île-Saint-Denis) will be reconfigured, at the expense of the organizing committee of the Olympics, in a new district. doors of Paris, which must accommodate 6.000 inhabitants and as many jobs. Among the criteria that have guided the choices in priority is notably "the comfort of the inhabitants", said Michel Cadot at the presentation conference of the laureates. "At the end of the end, there are men and women who will live there," insisted Friday Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris.
In detail, the first piece of land, known as Sector D, was awarded to a group led by a public player, Caisse des Dépôts, with its real estate subsidiary, Icade. The second, sector E, is won by an alliance between Nexity, the leading French developer, and Eiffage, number three in the construction industry behind Bouygues and Vinci. Bouygues is also the big loser: he was the only candidate for both fields but does not appear in the winners. In addition, another candidate had already thrown in the towel in September: it was made up of real estate Gecina, the real estate subsidiary of BNP Paribas bank.