• The Part-Dieu district, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, is the subject of a dozen simultaneous projects, to transform its concrete and congested spaces into a greener and more habitable area by 2029.

  • The most urgent works are those of the extension of the Lyon Part-Dieu station, whose attendance has more than doubled since its opening in 1983.

  • A team of landscape architects was chosen to provide this central district with 120,000 m2 of pedestrian and green spaces, to improve traffic flow and refresh it.

Concreted, cluttered, unloved, the Part-Dieu district continues to change.

Central with its train station and its shopping center, the business district of Lyon wants to give itself a new face, to make residents want to linger there.

And why not settle there, for a quality of life that the ecological municipality promises greener, more pedestrian.

Among the ten projects in progress, some have just been completed or are about to be: here is an inventory.

An enlarged station for more than doubled attendance

The leading station in Europe in terms of the number of connecting passengers, Lyon Part-Dieu concentrates the most visible part of the works.

If it is hardly visible from the outside, the new entrance hall has just opened on Place Béraudier.

With its 28,600 m2, it is twice as large as before.

A necessary extension, designed to accommodate 35,000 people a day, the station now sees more than 100,000 passing through.

The Pompidou and Villette galleries will further expand its surface area by 2023.

On the rail side, a new track, the L, has been added to the existing eleven, which should make this summer's crossovers more fluid.

A green square will replace the current esplanade, congested by the passage of cars, trams and buses.

Completion scheduled for 2024.



A shopping center extended to restaurants

With its large clear panels, the Westfield shopping center wants to make people forget the architecture of the 1960s, all in beige concrete, which "dressed" the surroundings of the station opposite.

Opened last September, its UGC multiplex has just been voted “new cinema of the year” by the International Cinema Technology Association.

On the top floor, Les Tables, a “food court” type extension with 25 brands from all over the world, has succeeded in attracting a new audience.

A "Roof Love" opened this week on the roof of La Lanterne: this terrace designed by the Food Society offers barbecues, deckchairs and DJs for summer evenings.

One last tower for the Lyon skyline

The To-Lyon tower, designed in 2010 and entrusted to the architect Dominique Perrault, is gradually scratching the sky.

The ecological municipality has assured it: it will be the last to emerge in the Lyon skyline.

170 meters high for 43 floors, it will include offices, a 4-star hotel and shops, around which a wider pedestrian area should give air to the district, while ensuring its economic dynamism.

The tower is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

A pedestrian and tree-lined neighborhood life

The new Part-Dieu wants to be greener, more pedestrian.

Its revegetation has been entrusted to the landscape designers of the Jacqueline Osty et Associés workshop, which provide for 15% more public spaces, 120,000 m2 of pedestrianized land, 2,000 trees planted and a canopy of 10,000 m2.

This project will begin with the Place des Martyrs-de-la-Résistance, at the end of 2024, to improve traffic flow and refresh the public space.

The Bouchut afforestation will replace the current location of the site's living quarters by 2025.

Finally, rue Bouchut will be redeveloped to connect the most important roads in the district with tree-lined streets.

In 2029, the date of completion of the work, the Part-Dieu will no longer have much in common with that of the 1960s.

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