03/18/2009
CRISIS OF COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Read trade journals specialty is instructive Even more as attending the meeting organized by the City Council Foruminvest Douai (January 30, 2009), where the project was presented Barlet so idyllic and disconnected from the reality of the economic crisis.
Indeed, in the latest issue of the Journal du Textile "(No. 1993, 17/03/09) one can read a very interesting interview (page 15) Pazoumian Michel, managing director of PROCOS, an association of 240 teachers specialized.
It highlights the effects of the crisis on the balance of 2008: a decline particularly noticeable in the second half with a good result on the food and catering, but a decline in personal equipment. According PROCOS, "What are the signs of mixed city center and shopping malls that have suffered most, signs of better resisting periphery (...) The year 2009 does not look under better auspices," because " blind, signs are even more selective in their settlements. "
Further, "Promoters are struck blind. The housing bubble jumps out at us, but they continue anyway!", "Michel Pazoumian considers that the commercial real estate players walk on their heads," saying: " It generates transactions that have no economic reality. Wherever there forcing the promoter to the accompaniment of the mayor, it starts badly . It currently pulls the hair to see where it works! "
" You can imagine the medium term, the centers will be half closed if the promoters do not reduce drastically their rents. "
That promises a lot of fun to Dutch investors wishing to become embedded in Douai, one wonders why the current situation!
But the best comes at the end of the article: "The number of abandoned projects (350,000 m²) or suspended (550,000 m) was multiplied by four compared to an average year, "and especially" those withdrawals or suspensions will be felt more in 2010 and 2011 "because" we are currently in the market inertia. "Contrary to the explosion of shopping centers in suburbs for ten years, the inner city continue to lose ground "and represented only 15% and 10% of transactions volume in square meters.
13/03/2009:
A Streetcar Named Desire:
Publication in La Voix du Nord in a series of articles informing readers of the disappointments of the tram Dutch Eindhoven has he seems, strongly dislike the City Council of Douai.
The Douai were able to find in their mailboxes the last issue of "Douai our city," the March 2009 devoted to this thorny problem.
irritation felt by the Mayor is very noticeable to read his editorial and the following pages. His displeasure will he permanently extend the boycott to the Voice of the North by municipal, or reason will prevail "she finally?
While it is true that official publications are a source of considerable income for the press, it is equally true that the politicians need media to exist.
Is not it the case of these furious starlets to be photographed without their knowledge without makeup, but who nevertheless do not mind giving interviews when it can serve their career?
LOCATION OF UNDERGROUND PARKING
At the meeting organized by Foruminvest mayor of Douai on 01/30/2009, attendees have noted that the municipality did not know where the parking would be dug or the number of levels. The only information obtained is about capacity, which would be 1,000 seats, to retain the same as the place of the current Barlet.
Two options were outlined: either dig under the whole extent of space on one level, either in a half up, under the commercial gallery Foruminvest but with two levels deep.
In any event, we do not know how much this will cost and what the impact of work on the state of the buildings along the road.
FINANCING ESPLANADE:
At the same meeting, the Mayor said that what remained of the Place du Barlet after construction of the gallery Foruminvest be occupied by a plaza, without specifying either the cost or the financing this work. He however assured that the funds generated through the sale of half the site would be used to renovate the surrounding streets, so they will not be spent on the development of the esplanade. Will there be still borrowing ? Is it reasonable in view of the financial statement of the municipality and the general context of economic crisis?
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