For several years, the city of Strasbourg has been pushing back its borders and expanding.
From there to moving its center of gravity to the detriment of the historic center?
For its part, the municipality wishes to "value different centralities".
Development of the Deux-Rives sector, gentrification of Neudorf, extension of the tram to Koenigshoffen and soon Schiltigheim… This is nothing new, Strasbourg is expanding.
In recent years, the European capital has been pushing its borders, thus gaining between 12,000 and 14,000 inhabitants in ten years.
From there to moving its center of gravity?
For a long time, the historic center concentrated most of the attractiveness.
But it seems that the crowd sometimes lacks air around the cathedral.
Neighborhoods in full expansion, the Krutenau and NoLiStra (New Place of Strasbourg) attract more and more people.
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, we asked ourselves the question: wouldn't Strasbourg city center be, slowly but surely, moving?
"A desire of people to find an alternative"
"Not quite yet, but it's really starting," says Danh-Loc Truong, boss of the up-and-coming domains.
Behind the counter of his wine cellar and delicatessen, the Strasbourg native from Neudorf is at the forefront of the evolution of the NoLiStra district, inaugurated in 2020: "The magnetism of the historic city center still exists, but there is a desire people to find an alternative to the concentration of public places in the hypercentre.
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According to him, one of the advantages lies in particular in the supply of car parks: “Here, there is enough to park everywhere.
For example, a resident of Neuhof would take twenty minutes to reach the city center.
There, we remain an alternative, people park here and it demagnetizes the center.
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“This impression that it is developing”
An alternative on the way to becoming a must?
"I think so on a personal basis", says tit for tat Grégory Quéhé, manager of the Roue Libre brewery.
“Already, the city center is less accessible, and living there is complicated.
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The Strasbourg resident also observes that “everything is happening more and more on the outskirts”: “People who are 30-40 years old and who live in Neudorf no longer necessarily want to go to the city center.
Here there is space in the premises, it is more airy and there is no need to crowd.
There is really this impression that it is developing.
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"A Growing City Center"
Pierre Bardet, General Manager of Vitrines de Strasbourg, qualifies this vision: “The city is growing, but the historic center retains its strength with all its beautiful brands.
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The head of the merchants' association sees rather “a city center that is growing”: “New constructions automatically attract new businesses, but all this is complementary to the existing offer.
In these districts, apart from the Rivétoile, there is no leading locomotive.
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For her part, Suzanne Brolly, assistant in charge of the "resilient city", indicates that the municipality wishes to "promote different centralities": "The idea is not to concentrate everything on the Grande-Île, but to go to "a quarter-hour city" with several hubs accessible in less than 15 minutes, without forgetting the connection with Kehl (Germany), on the other side of the Rhine.
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