Le centre des congrès h2 doit être mis hors d'eau et d'air dans les prochaines semaines. Midi Libre – MiKAEL ANISSET
Work continues on the Uzès Cadereau. Midi Libre – Pierre Meuriot Archive
The entrance to the La Coupole shopping center on the General Perrier side will be renovated by fall 2025. Socri Limited
La Ville doit terminer en 2025 ses travaux de voirie près des halles mais aussi, avec le Département, du côté de la route de Sauve. Midi Libre – Archive M. A.
De nombreux chantiers se poursuivront ou s’achèveront en 2025 à Nîmes.
Several major works will continue and even be completed in 2025 in Nîmes. A year when we do not expect many construction site launches one year before the municipal elections and in view of the delicate economic context affecting the construction sector.
The h2 convention center delivered at the end of 2025
During a recent site visit in December, the mayor of Nîmes Jean-Paul Fournier reiterated how keen he was to ensure that the deadlines were met for the delivery in November 2025 of the future h2 convention center which will shake up life in the Porte de France sector.
Before the site is operational in early 2026, which includes a 672-seat auditorium and 18 committee rooms, the buildings designed by Chabanne and 3XN Architects will be made watertight and airtight in spring 2025. There will be the installation of glazing, stone cladding on the exterior facades, a monumental staircase, not to mention the finishing work (interior to be finished, equipment, connection to networks) and signage.
The continuation of urban renovation
The New National Urban Renewal Program has for several years generated colossal projects in the Urban Policy neighborhoods with €470 million committed (State, City, Agglo, Department and Region). In 2025, demolitions will continue to make way for other projects. Thus, as part of the Operation to requalify degraded co-ownerships of national interest, twelve co-ownerships will disappear from the landscape as well as the Tour du Crous visible from Avenue Kennedy. It will be wiped off the map by dynamiting on April 6.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Still in Pissevin, buildings will be demolished: 101 housing units in Jean-Perrin (until December), partially in David, Degas and Delacroix (end of the year), continued demolition of the slab and the Wagner gallery (completed in early 2027). But there will also be Rue Puccini developed after the disappearance of the viaduct (May 2025), the construction of the Porte des arts 1 building (housing and shops) and Porte des arts 2 (multidisciplinary health centre), the mixed-use GGL Hélénis building (83 housing units with shops) and renovations to the Le Goya and Petit Perrin buildings. To cite only these examples, the file is so impressive.
The tunneler nibbles at the Uzès cadereau
As part of Papi III, the flow capacity of the Uzès and Limites cadereaux in the urban area will be multiplied by ten in four years, which will greatly facilitate the fight against flooding in Nîmes. Thanks to the tunnel boring technique, two tunnels of nearly 1 km will be drilled in the Sernam-Faïta-Valmy area and their funnels (Van Dyck and at the Vladimir Guiu square) at a cost of €52 million excluding tax (financed by the State, Nîmes Métropole, the Region and the Department). The work will continue this year with the completion of the Uzès tunnel and, next July, that of the Limites Aval, without forgetting the continuation of those of the funneling of the Uzès cadereau and the Confluence structure.
Furthermore, the construction of the immense Antiquailles retention basin in the Alès road sector will continue this year.
La Coupole is getting a makeover
Before the arrival of the Galeries Lafayette department store scheduled for fall 2025, Socri Limited announced a few months ago major works in the shopping center located just above Les Halles de Nîmes. À + Architecture and Aura worked on this €9 million project. The plans include the renovation of the main entrance on rue Général Perrier, the installation of new escalators to lead directly to the Galeries Lafayette, and the complete restructuring of the commercial level above Les Halles.
Roadworks continued
Last June, the City and the Department launched, with the assistance of the Agglo, major roadworks on Route de Sauve at a cost of €3 million. The roadway needs to be resurfaced from Avenue Pompidou to the Intermarché Vacquerolles roundabout.
The City is considering extending the cycle path that runs along the Canal de la Fontaine (perhaps with a traffic light for cyclists soon) to the crossroads of Avenue Pompidou. Cyclists will have to take the existing path on Chemin de Camplanier before going up Chemin du Vieux Sauve to the three pillars. There, a passage with an inclined plane will be built.
At the RN 106 hopper, upon arrival at Castanet, traffic at this intersection will be managed by traffic lights.
In the Coupole sector, the City is renovating the surroundings of the site by resurfacing rue Pierre, rue Guizot and rue des Halles. On rue Guizot, there is talk of pedestrianization at rue des Halles up to boulevard Gambetta. On General-Perrier, the idea is to beautify this avenue with a stone and imitation stone covering, without forgetting the redevelopment of Rue des Halles towards Place aux Herbes.
And also…
Several construction sites will be completed in 2025.
We are obviously thinking here of the Maison de l'entreprise and its eco-responsible buildings designed by AMG Architectes, NM2 architecture and the Pascual architects workshop. The CCI site will house a coworking space, a business incubator, an innovative project incubator, rooms, offices, catering, a boardroom and reception room for 150 people and, above all, a rooftop on the top floor for a breathtaking view of the former Pichon nurseries and the neighboring Georges-Besse park. Delivery is scheduled for the beginning of the year, knowing that the first students will arrive on campus in March before an inauguration in June if all goes well…
The City will inaugurate the Clos d'Orville school group next spring Léo Rousson. The work will normally be completed in February to allow for a return to school after the spring holidays for more than three hundred students, not forgetting teachers and staff. Six classes from CE2 to CM2, eight CP CE1 facilities (15 students), two others in the senior section, four kindergarten classes, rest rooms, motor skills, not forgetting the greening of the site, a hall linked to the neighborhood (reception, exhibition and discussion room) are planned.
Other work will continue. In the arenas too, the restoration, begun in 2009, will not be completed until 2034. The amphitheater is exposed to infiltration, weakened by pollution. The 60 bays also need to be consolidated. In the coming years, these will be those numbered from 58 to 60 and from 1 to 11.
Finally, among the projects to follow, there will be that of the requalification of the Gare Market led by the SPL Agate which hopes to market the first lots from 2025 and build the premises of this future Zac which plans tertiary and food sectors by 2030.
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