For the Grand Hotel Michel Ohayon is very large

Kind of wasteland urban, for almost twenty years, only the ground floor was occupied by offices and rooms and lounges unoccupied deteriorated year after year, the establishment, located in the heart of the historic centre, will find its past splendour. The Bordeaux Michel Ohayon, businessman who bought it in 1999, is again in much greater the palace which Bordeaux had been private.

The Grand Hotel was founded as an institution of luxury as the last century, but its roots go back to the end of the 18th century the golden age of Bordeaux, when a certain sieur de Roly had built his home, built on the plans of the great architect Victor Louis, to which must be the famous Grand Theatre, located on the same place. In the 19th century, the building becomes a brewery-pension before becoming, at the edge of the next century, one of two iconic palaces of the city. In addition to its luxurious rooms and its marble salon, it houses a large bar, decorated with a huge fresco, one of the most vibrant places of a city where nightlife is not distinguished by its particularly hectic nature.

The descent to the underworld begins in the 1970s. The Grand Hotel is bought by the group the Hénin, which distorts the establishment by splitting its large volumes and transforms it into a banal 3 stars. Its sale to the "golden boy" Pascal Jeandet accelerated this decline. Resulted in the spectacular collapse of the real estate empire, the building is finally back at the helm of the tribunal de commerce of Paris by the businessman Michel Ohayon. This quadragénaire, born in the Morocco and arrived in Bordeaux as a child, has already done in the sector, an impressive journey. Although it sold two years ago a part of its heritage to the British Grosvenor, still control about 350,000 square metres distributed between Bordeaux, Paris, Lille, Marseille and other French and foreign cities (Geneva, Valencia). The core consists of buildings in market streets in the inner cities, which he rented the ground floor of large textile signs. It is also diverse in housing and community facilities: he built so this moment an auditorium on behalf of the City Hall of Bordeaux.

For the Grand Hotel, Michel Ohayon is very large. After the redemption of the 5,000 square meters which previously constituted the perimeter of the palace, he went master of almost all of the block in which the building is included. As a whole, whose total area reaches 23,000 square metres, is the subject of renovations and grandiose development, entrusted to the architect Michel Pétuaud-Létang and Decorator Jacques Garcia. Total about 90 million will be spent including acquisitions in the facility, which will focus the Radisson sign. Delivered to next spring, with a substantial delay on the initial schedule, it will house 150 rooms, including 30 suites and 15 shows. It will include several spaces of restoration, including a huge brewery and a gourmet restaurant to Yves Mattaigne, current leader of the Radisson in Brussels (2 Michelin stars). The part of the building, equipped with a removable glass roof, will be devoted essentially to the activities of sport and rehabilitation in shape (swimming pool, sports hall, massage, etc.). A large mall should allow 20 shops, including six jewellery, sign among others that the businessman had set the bar very high to resurrect the deceased palace and display with brightness her success at the heart of a city where the speed of his ascension is both admiration and questions.