The context
Urban renewal in the Saint-Pierre and La Milliaire districts has been on the rise for years, but so far nothing has changed due to lack of available funding. Unlike the Côte des Roses, which received funding from the National Urban Renovation Agency , here, no help to support the City and social landlords in an ambitious renovation. “These two neighborhoods are simply City policy. It is for this reason that they are priority ”, one indicates to the planning department.
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Several issues
Located at the western entrance to the city, Saint-Pierre and La Milliaire have a blurred image. Hexagonal towers on one side; bars of buildings from the 60s on the other … Their respective dead-end configuration makes them places of life that are difficult to identify even though they are ideally located, between town and Linkling. The primary idea is therefore to open up these micro-neighborhoods and ensure that they are connected both to each other (which is not the case today), but also to the city and the outskirts. As such, the arrival of the high-level bus (with its Chaussée d’Afrique stops) and its timing every quarter of an hour will be a plus.
Other issues are listed: open up by opening up new roads; bring social diversity; reinforce the commercial offer present on the La Milliaire loop; create a green flow to the Saint-Pierre ponds and promote pedestrian and bicycle modes of travel. Indirectly, it is a matter of erasing the feeling of insecurity that has set in. And the traffic that goes with it.
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The HLM office on the front line
The public housing office of Thionville is the only social landlord present in the two districts; where it has 554 dwellings. The first phase of the rehabilitation will begin in Saint-Pierre: the three towers closest to the nursing home are concerned from 2022 until 2028. The emphasis will be on thermal and sound insulation, the transformation of entrances (we speak of residentialization) and their security, landscaping and the disappearance of overhead parking lots. A budget of 4 M € per round is envisaged, studies included. “We will have differential treatment for each round; we want to carry out an emblematic project, ”insists the director of the OPH. The latter hopes to obtain new financing opportunities as part of the recovery plan.
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Moreover…
“The extension of the Jacques-Prévert social center, located at the foot of the hexagonal towers, is part of the city’s multi-year investment plan”, assures the deputy mayor Roger Schreiber. In a more distant future, student accommodation could see the light of day instead of the Sainte-Madeleine residence. A tower at Saint-Pierre and a bar at La Milliaire are destined to be demolished to open up the neighborhoods definitively. The overall operation is scheduled to last until 2038. For a total budget of 40 M €.
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