Transforming the Commercial Area of Croix-Blanche: The Evolution of Shopping Centers in France

2023-09-19 18:32:41

REPORTAGE – Created in 1971, the vast commercial area of ​​Croix-Blanche, in Essonne, has already begun its transformation.

For more professional taxes in their municipality, more jobs in their territory and having a new free roundabout delivered by a grateful developer, thousands of mayors said yes. Since the 1960s, they have agreed to sacrifice thousands of hectares of agricultural land so that, here and there, and at lower cost, shopping centers. Converted hangars, lined up like shoeboxes on asphalt riddled with signs. Today, there are 1,500 sites of this type recorded in France.

However, this collective work, carried out over time with the consent of our elected officials, is today being singled out. These areas are considered an unforgivable lack of taste and embody, according to the government which now intends to transform them, “ugly France”. A brutal term which could be insulting to those who, by the millions, frequent these places and embody a way of life associated with housing estates, the suburbs…

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