“A decisive step has been taken for the transformation of the hospital of the Hôtel-Dieu. It will anchor the long-term health at the heart of the City,” says the AP-HP on Friday. After more than a year of deliberation, this is the project Novaxia that has been retained for planning, programming, as well as the occupation of the site of the Parvis Notre-Dame, is a third of the surface area of the hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, facing the Seine. The real estate developer has paid the tidy sum of 144 million euros via a lease of 80 years.

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“The group coordinated by Novaxia” won on Thursday evening the call for projects urban innovative launched by the end of 2017, according to a plan of transformation of the Hôtel-Dieu, announced in a press release the institution francilienne, which remains the owner of the entire site, located in the heart of the capital. While five groups had been held in 2018, there were only three candidates in the running at the beginning of the year. Some 20,000 m2 will be made available to Novaxia by “a few years”, the time to reinstall the hospital staff on the premises who will be dedicated on the remaining two-thirds of the site, which is planned to work, explained the direction of the AP-HP to the AFP.

A department of health-oriented innovation

The project selected by the jury, composed of representatives of the AP-HP and Paris city hall, has a “health center” on half of the area assigned, including the establishment of an incubator for biotechnology and artificial intelligence to the home of fifty innovative businesses.

“The complementarity between the project and the medical and hospital conducted by the AP-HP and the project chosen for the space Parvis Notre-Dame will make the Hôtel-Dieu, a place that is particularly innovative, in the service of health and innovation. With a strong dynamic of research, it will become the heart of the île de la cité, a hospital opened on the city and on the great subjects of society,” says the AP-HP.

“A pole habitat in solidarity” as well as a range of restaurants and shops

A multi-purpose room that can accommodate up to 1000 people to propose a scientific program and culture, or of a house of the associations of patients. Furthermore, the 10 000 m2 of this part of the building will also be compounds of the “pôle habitat in solidarity”, which will include a residence student social, a home of the disability as well as a crèche associative.

Hôtel-Dieu (IVe). A health center is 10,000 m2 Charlotte Faucet/©Credits Novaxia

Finally, a third of the surface area will be devoted to a “wide range of dining and shopping venues, including the brands will be selected in conjunction with the AP-HP and Paris, and which will include a gourmet restaurant”. “This allows an opening of the Hôtel-Dieu in the city, with possible access to the gardens, allowing circulation for Parisians and for tourists,” says the AP-HP.

144 million in revenue for the AP-HP to “improve working conditions”

The construction lease agreement concluded with the Novaxia will represent 144 million in revenue for the AP-HP and will have “benefits for all” of its teams, she assured. Novaxia is committed in addition to take charge of the entire work. “In the immediate future”, it will create a background of transformation of 30 million euros, “devoted to the improvement of working conditions and supported innovative patients”.

The 35,000 m2 of the remaining of the Hotel-Dieu is reserved for the deployment of the medical project and hospital set in 2016 by the AP-HP, which includes a welcome service of emergencies, a tray of specialty consultation, multi-disciplinary a centre of psychiatry and the public health.