SOn Avenue Thiers, we start with “L’Enterprise”. The name of the “Star Trek” ship readily used on this side of the Bastide for the ophthalmological and ENT clinic. “We have changed times,” smiles Bertrand, an octogenarian with two cataracts, the first of which was treated in the former establishment of the GBNA group. The 6,000 m² of the private establishment opened almost two years ago are here the totem of entry to the new Bastide-Niel district, under construction for ten years.
On the left, the operator NFU-Oui Santé is having Legendre build a medical center which will include in its 4,215 m² a “small emergency” service (7 days a week and from 7 to 10 p.m.). “An integration café is planned on the ground floor,” informs Claire Vendé, director of Bordeaux Métropole Aménagement (BMA), developer of the district with Aquitanis and Domofrance. On the other side of the white “ship”, the Bord'ha site, Bastide-Niel's first project where architecture agency (Hobo), participatory housing, social housing and coworking coexist.
The neighborhood's signature architecture, designed by Winy Maas for shared sunshine.
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Railway border
“We are the interface with the old Bastide, an endearing and renewed area,” explains Pierre Cara, resident architect. For several months, he has seen the growth of R + 8 and the 72 housing units that Domofrance slides between his building and the Thiers gymnasium. “We can’t wait to have the green pedestrian street at the back. » His agency is also managing the ongoing extension of the Eklo hotel on Avenue Abadie, next to Ubisoft headquarters. Behind the clinic, Legendre still manages an operation with 187 housing units and a parking lot with 440 spaces.
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The reception center for asylum seekers, open for eighteen months, on the edge of the railway line, a persistent obstacle to the homogeneity of the neighborhood… lifted in 2026.
We climb the Bouthier bridge, to the east, above the always great obstacle to the homogeneity of the district: the disused railway line. Ten years that SAS Bastide-Niel and SNCF have been discussing. “We will buy back the right of way at the beginning of 2026,” announces Claire Vendé. Rue de la Rotonde, we walk alongside the Reception Center for asylum seekers opened eighteen months ago, the Archives of Bordeaux Métropole, local dinosaur (2016), to discover the brand new Parvis d'Orion designed by Crédit Agricole Real estate.
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Éléa Lartigue, new resident at Parvis d'Orion, 61 housing units delivered in summer 2024.
Parking puzzle
“I moved in in July after two months of complicated research,” says Éléa Artigue, a 19-year-old BTS student at Brémontier high school. She pays 600 euros per month for a 31 m²studio among the 65 accommodations. “The big problem is parking. » In Bastide-Niel, one-way lanes and soon garden streets will direct cars to rare parking lots: the two existing ones are on the Garonne side. Still non-existent: local shops.
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Pauline and Valentine, students at Essca which has taken over the former officers' mess of the Niel barracks.
Behind, at the foot of Essca, a private management school opening in 2023 (800 students), Pauline and Valentine, 18, are breathing before their midterm. Across the street, parents are in front of the Billie-Holiday school. “We still feel a little alone but the calm is good too,” smiles Morgane, mother of two students. Between Essca and the Archives, there are still construction fences: the Galène campus (168 student accommodations and another private higher school) are expected for the start of the 2025 school year. The Music and Music Education Center the dance is scheduled for May 2026.
“Favorite”
Go up rue Hortense. Workers are leaving the controversial 119-unit construction site of developer Marignan. Axanis, a subsidiary of Aquitanis dedicated to social access, is developing 36 apartments there. Quai des Queyries, the shops of Darwin, pioneer of the district (2007), are full. We go up to 5e floor of Green Valley (Pichet), residence in three splayed buildings around a courtyard garden under development. “The view of the Garonne, the apartment: we fell in love with it,” summarizes Anthony Imhof, who has been renting this two-bedroom duplex for a year with his partner for 1,350 euros per month. “Even if we have water infiltration, it’s still a work in progress. »
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One of three buildings in Green Valley, Pichet residence on Quai des Queyries.
Anthony looks at the 54 social housing units in Domofrance inhabited since this fall: “For once they have a beautiful view, too…” At the back, the TBM bus depot and a huge wasteland occupied by two Legendre cranes: 32 housing and a silo car park with 440 spaces in sight. And everywhere there are plots awaiting projects, building permits, construction sites. In 2025, a quarter of the housing will be delivered to Bastide-Niel, a “city” of 10,000 Bordeaux residents.
Dates and numbers
2009 Year of creation of the Bastide-Niel Concerted Development Zone (ZAC).
2014 Choice of the Bordeaux Métropole Aménagement (BMA)/Aquitanis/Domofrance group as developer.
35 In hectares, the surface area of the Bastide-Niel ZAC.
4 200 The number of housing units envisaged in the long term (1,500 social rentals, 1,000 in social accession, 1,700 free).
63 000 In square meters, the areas of commercial, tertiary activities or public facilities.
