2013 yearly trip of the Real Estate Clubs Club: Ph. Rowe took part in the yearly trip oh the Real Estate Clubs Club which gathered this year 300 professionals of the real estate industry.
The trip took place in Saint-Etienne the 29th March and allowed the 300 professionals meet local actors (political and from the real estate sphere) and visit remarkable of-the-moment projects. The group has visited the Châteaucreux neighboorhood and notably The House of Urban Projects and the 26,660 sqm office building (+440 parking lots) Le Luminis (developed by Altarea-Cogedim for Foncière INEA and designed by Manuelle Gautrand).
The participants followed a tour of the Geoffroy Guichard stadium (being refurbished), a speech from M. M. Vincent, senator-mayor of Saint-Etienne and a conference on the local real-estate market presenred by CBRE, GIT Immobilier and Crequy Group. The participants then split up into two groups : one visiting the Imprimerie (land mark of the creative neighboorhood Manufacture Plaine Achille, historical building of the former National Arms Factory, of 230 m long, rehabilitated by Alexandre Chemetoff) and one visiting the Modern Art Museum. The day ended with the visit of the International Design Biennial Show carried by the Cité du Design (16,000 sqm project designed by the architects Finn Geipel et Giulia Andi of the LIN studio), Biennial Show which one part is displayed in the very contemporary building La Platine.
web sites: www.leclubdesclubsimmobiliers.org, www.altareacogedim.com/Cite-des-Affaires-Saint-Etienne-42, www.agglo-st-etienne.fr/economie/grands-projets-economiques/manufacture-plaine-achille/limprimerie, www.mam-st-etienne.fr, www.citedudesign.com/fr/biennale/030812-l-edition-2013, www.citedudesign.com/fr/la-cite