DFrom rue de la Benauge, we advance into rue de Cénac. In the distance, R + 8s and cranes. “Four years ago, I had a view of the Promis stadium and the wild forest,” sighs Frédéric Mayer, resident of the last shop on the street before it was extended. “Not too much of the same, there…” On the other side of the road, the first new buildings in the Deschamps district are there, inhabited. Average volumes but soaring campaign impression. For five years, Euratlantique has been developing the 250 hectares between Benauge and Pont Saint-Jean, establishing a small town within the town. Where life is a mayonnaise that sets slowly.
The same view from the upper floor of a shop on rue de Cénac, on October 11, 2021 and then on December 29, 2024.
Sebastiana Esteban
In the pretty, new white stone of the new “Échoppes Bastide”, 38 social and free housing units, streaked with paths and one-way streets, we feel the desire for continuity with the historic Bastide. When we arrive at rue Henri-Dunant extended to boulevard Joliot-Curie, we are less in “fine couture”. The volumes thicken, rising behind the promised rehabilitated gymnasium and the new playground. “It’s more sanitized, less crazy, but that’s the meaning of History, right? », quips Lucien, 82 years old, 45 of whom are from rue Dunant. “Enter the dense!” »
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Boulevard Joliot-Curie at the outlet of the Saint-Jean bridge on the right bank of Bordeaux.
“The city is green but the buildings are growing like mushrooms, right? »
“Impressive and pretty”
At the end of rue Joseph-Fauré, the area of the former Trégey emergency reception center (CAU) is still empty, the basketball court planned by Euratlantique having raised the eyebrows of local residents. We find the structure 200 meters further on rue des Bateliers, in a new and welcoming building opposite the construction site of a mixed Symbiose building (parking, daycare, offices by the end of 2025). “I've been on the street for seven years, I've been here for two months,” whispers Francis, who comes out of the Health Care Beds service (LHSS) and shows swollen legs and fists. “Staphylococcus aureus…” 88 places in emergency accommodation, 16 in LHSS. “Since opening in the summer of 2023, the center has been working well, a living space where we find temporary accommodation, where we work on the reintegration of the person,” recalls Karen Brillat, director of the Diaconat de Bordeaux, manager of the place.
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The interior garden of the Initial/Villa Antoinette real estate block, between free, social housing and hotel residences.
The association has just opened 41 housing units close to its social residence above Montempô. Christine and Jean-Luc have just stayed three nights in an apart-hotel from the brand at low prices. “We came to see our daughter who has been living in La Bastide for two years,” explains the couple from Bayonnais. “Impressive and pretty, this neighborhood. The city is green but the buildings are growing like mushrooms, right? »Teasing, the Basques. In this real estate block with an interior garden open to the four winds and also including Clairsienne social housing and private apartments with owners, sometimes occupants, we are teasing rather angry.
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There are 3,500 inhabitants today in the Belvédère district.
Litigation
“Waterproofing, frames, security system: defects are legion,” summarizes Michel Trento in his T5 at 455,000 euros (with parking space) at 7e floor of this L'Initial residence. “After a summons this summer of the entire developer-architect-builders consortium, the judge extended the guarantees and appointed a legal expert. » Approach validated among others by the three co-owners among others. We find the same type of conflict within the neighboring Bordonova complex, boulevard Joliot-Curie. We even find happy owners.
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Nathalie and Franck Gallibet on Place Marie-de-Gournay, (happy) landlord owners of a T2 in the building at the back.
“I often come to the neighborhood and the development is very positive”
Franck Callibet for example. Stop agent at Saint-Jean station, Bigourdan coming from Bagnères was looking to invest. In Belcier first near the Hyperion tower “but I didn’t feel the commercial development”. The facts do not yet prove him wrong. In 2017, he came to the house of the Belvédère project, was seduced by the proximity of the Garonne, the Eiffel park to come, the Parc aux Angéliques already there, the promised shops. He buys off plan a T2 with parking space (220,000 euros for 47 m2) and view of the river and Meca, above the flagship square of the new Belvédère district.
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Aurélie Missègue and Daniele Prestia, two of the three employees of Robe des Moines, new café/tea room on rue de la Garonne.
Strong coffee
“I often come to the neighborhood and its development is very positive,” concludes Michel. “The express bus is still missing, one of the arguments for which I bought. » Finding a tenant was not difficult, as you can imagine. Paying 860 euros (charges included), Franck has a monthly loan of 920 euros. We chat with him at Robe des Moines: the tea room, literary café, Arabica shop and teas of all kinds opened on 210 m² on December 23, rue de la Garonne. “We waited a long time for the premises with its chaotic finishes,” underlines Marine Ranson, manager from Picardy who arrived in Bordeaux in 2018, expert in burneries. “But the location is very good and we are very happy to finally open. »
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The On air gym, the first brand opened in the Belvédère district.
A few meters further, the pioneer of Belvédère brands, On Air. The sports hall with its American atmosphere, all in red and black, extends over 1,200 m² between the quay and the square. Several thousand subscribers. “I’m working on my back this morning,” smiles Simon, coming almost every day from Saint-Michel and the left bank. “This neighborhood is growing well, becoming lively quite quickly. » Not enough for Nicole, 81 years old who after a year and a half at the Jardins d'Arcadie senior residence, will leave the Belvédère. “It still lacks a variety of shops, even if the new medical analysis laboratory is very practical. »
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Place Marie-de-Gournay, the Belvédère’s future living space.
And a health center
The twenty brands praised on the Euratlantique panels are not there yet. Four restaurants, a bakery, a greengrocer, the sports recycling center and the supermarket complete a very progressive offering. However, some 3,500 inhabitants are already there. The opening of the Bien public cultural brasserie at the foot of the Saint-Jean bridge around the summer of 2025 should be a balm to the hearts and wallets of colleagues. The hoped-for filling of tertiary buildings between the new fire station and Boulevard Joliot-Curie is also supposed to accelerate the dynamic.
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Two workers on a break pose in the heart of the Suzanne-Lenglen sports garden.
We head back towards Benauge. Near the Marie-de-Gournay school, which is asleep for the holidays, the Launay and Vealis construction sites on one side, BNP-Paribas on the other, announce 300 additional housing units. The Suzanne-Lenglen sports garden (football, hockey, tennis, running, etc.), its clubs, its wilder users provide breathing space over four hectares. On the edge, we discover the growth of a health center covering 2,000 m², 5,000 m² of floor space on eight levels, mixing ambulatory and balneotherapy, under the leadership of the Medicina group. Rue de Cénac, Yvette comes out of her shop: “with all these people, at least we won't be cold. » Common sense close to home.
Series (6/7)
New neighborhoods. From Belvédère just inaugurated to Amédée-Saint-Germain in struggle, via Belcier between two ages and Brazza and Niel under construction: between the two New Year's Eves, “Sud Ouest” walks through these new places of life in Bordeaux, to see how life unfolds there.
