Pedro Santana Lopes, mayor of Figueira da Foz, and Paul Henri Schelfhout, president of Finangeste, inaugurated the Bellevue Building last Wednesday afternoon (July 2).
This is the former “O Trabalho” building, which after around three decades of degradation and abandonment - it was even about to be demolished - was added to Finangeste´s property portfolio and subjected to an urban rehabilitation project worth around 12 million euros.
The building, with more than 15,000 square meters (m2), seven floors above ground and two below ground, has apartments of types T0 to T4, sold entirely to nationals, but also to many foreigners, and around 20 stores and offices.
Pedro Santana Lopes was very pleased to see the finished building, which “seemed impossible to do”, but which he considered “a work of art”. He congratulated everyone, “who invested”, “who also believed in Figueira”, who “promoted it, who sold it, who will maintain it” and recalled his predecessors, João Ataíde and Carlos Monteiro, and their role in the building´s rehabilitation process.
“This was a knife stuck in the heart of Figueira, here in the center, and at the same time it´s an example to some, not investors, but speculators, even if it´s sometimes with the fate of communities,” stressed the mayor, for whom the day was a “party for Figueira da Foz”, held in a “discreet way”, and seen ‘well’, as he advocated “that in life it´s beautiful like this, to let the facts speak for themselves, without making a big fuss.”
Paul Henri Schelfhout thanked the municipal services for all their support and collaboration, from “the warm welcome when you enter the town hall, to the mayor´s office”.
The businessman stressed that “things have been going well” and that “it has been a pleasure to invest in Figueira”, stressing that the Bellevue building is “already the company´s third investment in the municipality” and that “it opens doors for the next ones.”
Source: https://www.cm-figfoz.pt