A giant underground parking lot in Casablanca

The underground parking project will be carried out on the site of the former Ibn Tofail school, at the intersection of Normandie and Kadi Iass streets, reports the daily L’Économiste, providing some details on the work. This parking lot, "built on 2 basements, will offer nearly 520 parking spaces in this very busy commercial district in the heart of Casablanca" and "will be the subject of a surface landscaping development (green spaces, squares, pedestrian paths...), including the development of access and connections to existing roads," the publication specifies.

This project should help increase the occupancy rate of parking lots, it is explained. The specialized daily reports that CasaTransports has already launched two tenders for this project, one relating to project management services and the other to the control of technical studies and the monitoring of the work. In addition, "the municipality is in the process of launching 4 new parking lots in structures: triangle des hôtels, Ibnou Tofail (Maârif), Casa-Anfa and Roches noires, offering more than 2,000 additional parking spaces," the media points out.

The objective is to reduce the supply of on-street parking after the completion of the new tram and busway lines. The work will require an investment of nearly 400 million dirhams, 75% of which will be provided by the municipality and the rest by the Ministry of Transport and Logistics, the same source specifies, adding that "the new parking policy of Casablanca recommends the implementation of regulated parking areas of nearly 40,000 spaces in the city center (districts surrounded by the Résistance–Zerktouni–FAR–Anfa ring road) and its main urban extensions (Maârif, Hôpitaux, Belvédère, Roches noires, Médina, Bourgogne)".