Lamoura VVL holiday village offer, Digi Mart USA News (Lamoura, Jura, France): The small commune of Lamoura in the Jura region is trying to give new life to the former VVL holiday village site. Closed since 2020 and managed by a judicial liquidator, the tourist site has been left abandoned.
The commune has submitted a takeover bid of 110,000 euros to the judicial liquidator for the site, which covers nearly 26 hectares and includes 12 buildings, close to 900 beds, a swimming pool, a gymnasium and a garage. The municipality, with about 800 residents, says the site is deteriorating further each day.
The VVL once hosted nearly a thousand tourists at a time from 1967. After the judicial liquidation of its last owner in 2020, the site fell into decline, and no buyer willing to invest emerged.
The municipal council, led by Mayor Antoine Delacroix, voted on October 5 to make the offer, far below the 2 million euros the liquidator had hoped to recover.
The municipality’s plan calls for demolishing about 80 percent of the facilities over time, starting with the central building and the former swimming pool building, which pose safety concerns and have been repeatedly vandalized. Demolition is estimated to cost around one million euros.
Smaller buildings could be sold to real estate operators for limited housing, subject to the upcoming revision of the local urban plan. The gymnasium could be reused through a partnership with the CNSMM, the national center for Nordic skiing and mid-mountain sports in nearby Prémanon.
The municipality has spent 18 months preparing this post-VVL plan and says it wants to proceed cautiously, both financially and by explaining the project to residents. Without another buyer, the commune may be the only viable solution.
It is unclear when the liquidator will decide or whether the offer will be accepted, and no timetable has been set.
The village had long served families from 12 French communities that jointly built the site as a low-cost social tourism destination. It closed at the end of July 2014 after a series of owners, and in 2015 it was sold at auction to the Paris-based company Ereig for 2.5 million euros.
Ereig’s subsidiary Real Hope entered liquidation in September 2020, and the case was then handed to a liquidator based at the Pontoise commercial court.
