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Amongst the solutions: housing and parking for workers

Another idea put forward by the Monégasque government to relieve congestion on the roads:
housing employees near the Principality - and a train station.

by Milena Radoman
At least 90 residential units and 130 parking the businesses and hotels built following all with an ecological advantage: 27% of the
spaces for the Cœur de Carnolès project in the arrival of the military that allowed the 41,000 m² of developed surface area will be
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: this is what the real growth of what has become the town reserved for green spaces and open land.
Monégasque state wishes to achieve to house centre of Carnolès.” A 5,400 m² landscaped park will serve as a
workers who work in Monaco. “The state is “buffer space” between the railway line and
interested in purchasing part of these housing houses and “81% of the neighbourhood’s
units, because they are located a two-minute A 350-space car park in Menton power needs will be supplied via renewable
walk from Carnolès station,” specifies the It’s a spectacular project: Menton energies (probe geothermal energy,
Minister of Public Works, the Environment is finalising the construction of its photovoltaic panels).” In accordance with
and Urban Planning, Céline Caron-Dagioni. multimodal exchange hub with a the Local Urban Planning Plan, 844 parking
“This is one of the solutions that we could 350-space car park, 180 spaces of spaces will be made available to residents
offer to our workers, in parallel with the which will be dedicated to inter-modality. and users of the site, including 694 private
creation of a park-and- ride facility on the Objective: attract TER local train users on and 150 open to the public.
Menton side, a project which is in the process the Nice-Monaco-Italy axis. The project, At the end of the tender period, launched
of being formalised. Becoming a partner of estimated at €20.82 million, is financed in 2020, for which 17 promoters had bid,
this territorial network on the east side is by the Urban Community of the French it was the Icade/Emerige group which was
just as important as it is on the west side.” Riviera (CARF), the department, the unanimously selected by the jury at the end
region, the state and the SNCF Gares & of 2022 to carry out this large-scale, mixed
On the grounds of the former air base Connexions group (also the contracting project, particularly because of their attractive
The Cœur de Carnolès operation, which is still authority). financial offer of €67 million. According to
awaiting its building permit, should start in Monaco Matin, in 2016, EPF PACA purchased
the next two years if all goes well. It is located the land for €21.5 million from the Ministry of
on the grounds of the former air base 943, The biggest real estate project on the Riviera Defence. The public establishment ensured
abandoned in 2012. For the record, in 1889, Certified as an eco-district, this urban the ownership of this land on which the
it housed "the quarters of the 27 Battalion development project will house several state had granted a reduction of €9 million,
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of Infantrymen which soon became the 27 facilities and public spaces: a 4,000 m² school in return for the construction of 150 social
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Battalion of Mountain Infantrymen, who came for 420 children; a 1,000 m² cultural centre housing units in the future building project.
to the rescue of the population following the dedicated to music, theatre, live performances The promoters declared that “the operation
earthquake that occurred a year earlier,” says and other cultural activities; and, in particular, represents a turnover of €196.5 million
the city on its website. Flashback: “At the time, 405 housing units, including 150 social excluding tax” and that “the first housing will
there were only fields in Carnolès and it was housing units and 60 cost-controlled units, be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2025.”

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