2023-09-07 15:06:40
Charleroi inaugurates, this Friday, the new upper town and the university campus, which should give the city a new face and a new attractiveness. Article reserved for subscribers Journalist in the Political Service By Stéphane Vande Velde Published on 7/09/2023 at 17:06 Reading time: 5 min
This Friday is a day of celebration in Charleroi. The start of the Wallonia Festival is celebrated there. The end of the work in the upper town, “one of the largest urban renewal projects in Europe”. 43 million euros (including 39 financed by Feder funds and the Walloon Region) for the renovation of public spaces, a total of nearly 200 million in investment, including 23 million for the university campus. The high point of this in-depth renovation of the upper part of the city, which echoes that of the lower city during the previous legislature, the university campus (five auditoriums, 55 classrooms, 450 laboratory places, 250 computer laboratory over 30,000 m2) and the arrivals of ULB, UMons and later UCLouvain were to profoundly modify the image, but above all the function of the largest Walloon city, too long penalized by the absence of ‘university. “Charleroi suffered for many decades from the lack of a university.
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