Tall & Urban News

An urban development project in downtown Lyon is slated to double the size of Villeurbanne’s city center by 2027. The Métropole de Lyon and the City of Villeurbanne have invested an estimated 60 million euros (US$68 million) in this project.

Originally developed by Mayor Lazare Goujon in the early 1930s, the city center of Villeurbanne is no longer suited to the needs of today’s population. The project aims to revisit and revise the avant-garde vision of that time, to fuel a revitalized city center.

The demolition of buildings along Léon-Chomel Street, which have been closed for some years, will begin soon. The objective is to clear the space required for the extension of Avenue Henri-Barbusse to the Esplanade Geneviève-Anthonioz-de-Gaulle.

Fifty-three new homes are being built, and residents should be able to occupy them in the fall of 2019. A Rosa Parks School will also open in 2020.

For more on this story, go to Le Journal de Eco.