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Unveiling of the Ardoines Logistics Hub for Sogaris in Vitry-sur-Seine!

31.01.2024

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KEY FIGURES

14,500 m²

of urban logistics

 

21,000 m²

of trade materials stores, business premises, craftsmanship and offices

 

8,000 m²

of urban agriculture space on roofs

 

350

potential on-site jobs

 

26

months’ work

with the first stone laid in October 2021 and handover in December 2023

 

3 km

of inner-city Paris

 

300 m

of the Ardoines multimodal hub (line 15, RER C T Zen 5)

 

3,700

housing units built in the neighbourhood, including 900 in 2024

 

20,000

jobs in both joint development zones

Our Chairman and Frédéric Moulin, Managing Director of EPA ORSA, François Dagnaud and Jonathan Sebbane, President and Managing Director of Sogaris respectively, alongside Pierre Bell-Lloch, Mayor of Vitry-sur-Seine, Richard Curnier, Regional Director Île-de-France, Banque des territoires, Michel Leprêtre, President of Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre, Catherine de Miribel, Director of Property and Development Saint-Gobain Distribution Building France, Frédéric Chartier, founder of the architectural agency ChartierDalix,and Sébastien Matty, have unveiled the Ardoines Logistics Hub in Vitry-sur-Seine, a project that flies the flag for low-carbon urban logistics.

The Ardoines Logistics Hub, showcasing virtuous urban logistics

Changing consumer habits and the rise of e-commerce are a reality. They contribute to the growth in noise pollution and disruption from the transportation of goods. In Paris, freight accounts for one-third of carbon emissions and half the traffic congestion.

Faced with this challenge, the Ardoines Logistics Hub for Sogaris in Vitry-sur-Seine is providing a property-based solution to optimise the flow of goods in the city. It is located in the heart of the city to shorten the final segment of the supply chain, the famous “last mile”, which is pretty poorly named since it covers increasingly large distances.

In mechanical terms, reducing the distances travelled helps to reduce carbon emissions, as does the introduction of electric fleets by transport operators.

A multi-storey logistics site located in the heart of a city district requires a different approach to building design. This is why bold choices were made when the Ardoines Logistics Hub was designed, with an internal truck yard that limits disturbance to residents, well-tended and planted facades that contribute to the area’s architectural harmony, mixed uses that feature a courier hall, builders’ merchants, offices, business premises for productive SMEs/VSEs and also 8,000 m² of agricultural space on the roofs.

Such an innovative building has found its ideal home in the Ardoines station district of Vitry-sur-Seine, in the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre region. It is already served by RER C, and in future it will be connected to line 15 of the Grand Paris Express and the Tzen 5 high service level bus line. Thousands of square meters are under construction in the coming years to accommodate 3,700 homes and 20,000 jobs, ranging from tertiary to maintenance, from small industry to services. So the SogarisLogistics Hub, which showcases the city of tomorrow, will make its home in the heart of a vibrant and productive district, and is aiming to set an example.

Richard Curnier
Regional Director Île-de-France, Banque des territoires – shareholder of Sogaris

This project is shaping the logistics of the Greater Paris of tomorrow

The Ardoines Logistics Hub, a unique, off-site logistics building

The Ardoines Logistics Hub in Vitry-sur-Seine is a productive site located in the middle of a residential area, where 26-ton trucks go up through the floors, where a large 10-metre-high logistics centre sits alongside a materials store, offices and almost a hectare of agriculture on the roof… and all this built in just two years! Multiple challenges for the Ardoines Logistics Hub, an off-site construction that stands apart.

The different components of the logistics building, such as its concrete floors or the 521 13-metre-high posts, were manufactured in our French factories, before being assembled on site in Vitry-sur-Seine.

The benefits of off-site are well known:

  • 20 to 30% time saving in construction, a reduction in heavy goods traffic on the site
  • reduced carbon impact
  • the highest quality of workmanship
Sébastien Matty
Chairman of GA Smart Building

The Hôtel Logistique des Ardoines is the result of close cooperation between Sogaris and ChartierDalix to create a logistics complex that combines architectural quality, the needs of tenants and financial equilibrium. The use of off-site construction, which is an essential part of the industrial revolution in the property and construction sector, was an obvious solution for the restricted urban environment of the Hôtel Logistique des Ardoines. We are proud to be contributing to this major project, helping to reduce the impact and disturbance associated with the new uses and lifestyles of city residents by helping to bring logistics back into the city

It is worth noting that we won the Urban Logistics Award with the Ardoines Logistics Hub in Vitry-sur-Seine, at the 2023 Developers’ Ranking Awards organised by Innovapresse.

From polluted wasteland to a vibrant, productive cityscape

The Ardoines area is historically an industrial and railway hub on the edge of Paris, remaining a polluted wasteland for decades and extending over a quarter of the municipality of Vitry-sur-Seine (300 ha), in the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre area. It is the focus of one of the most ambitious restructuring projects in France, supported by the French government. It is located within an Operation of National Interest (OIN), and has resulted in the creation of two ZACs [zone d’aménagement concerté (joint development zone)]. The multimodal hub and the Sogaris Logistics Hub are located in the south in the Ardoines Station joint development zone.

The Ardoines Station joint development zone began its transformation around a major transport hub (RER C, line 15, Tzen 5). Not forgetting its industrial roots, it has reinvented itself to become a vibrant neighbourhood for people to live and work in. Notable projects include the large “landscape bridge” that spans the railway tracks, or the Grandes Halles, a future iconic third place within a stunning railway hall.

Pierre Bell-Lloch 
Mayor of Vitry-sur-Seine

With this logistics hub, we are committing to creating a productive city.

Amandine Guillaume

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