The Angers local authorities announce they will buy the Technicolor site

Even though the Nanterre bankcupcy court has not yet returned a verdict about the liquidation of the Angers Technicolor factory, Angers Loire Métropole and Angers city have announced they will buy the site and the production facilities. Their aim, officialy passed on the Nanterre tribunal, is to keep the area available for every new industrial project.

This is a good idea even if, in the difficult economic period Angers is brought face to face, a single or several industrial projects could hardly need all the surfaces of the Technicolor site. The surface of the buildings has a total of 70 000 square metres while the industrial site covers 13,5 hectares. Is a development of industrial activities economically conceivable? Is it technically feasible (if the grounds are polluted, they will have to be cleaned out and the two local authorities will have to finance the cost given the site will be their own)? And is it desirable because the Technicolor area is now surrounded by collective and individual homes?

Desjardins district

Probably a part of the area could be converted from activities to housing. While the costs of fuel is soaring, many people think it would be wise for them to live not too far from the places where they work. Angers is involved in the development of sustainable districts (Les Hauts de Saint-Aubin or Desjardins), has the implementation of a similar district in the Technicolor area already be considered? Property taxes and housing taxes could possibly compensate the disappearance of the revenues generated by Technicolor. Maybe have the Angers authorities already thought about it?