Lyon (Rhone)
400 meters from the Lyon-Part-Dieu station, which sees workers arriving from all over the region every morning, the building is strategically located: in 2022, the district concentrated a quarter of the demand for offices in the city and
“ the number of jobs should double in the next 20 years”
, according to the diocese of Lyon.
It is therefore no coincidence that the latter wished to
“mark the presence of the Church”
there .
"After the industrial sites of the last century located on the outskirts of cities, the Part-Dieu district is the new symbol of the world of work, in a tertiarized economy"
, justifies Mirco Iadarola, who directs Le Parvis Part-Dieu, a project presented on Tuesday with the Archbishop of Lyon, Mgr de Germay.
A modern, brand new “third place”
Born from an intuition of his predecessor, Philippe Barbarin, this place intends to be a place of rejuvenation for the workers of the district.
"In a neighborhood where everyone is looking at their feet, where there are crowds but where everyone is very alone, it's a place to socialize
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