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Combining modernity and digital, Paris La Défense innovates with the online launch of a complete interactive map of its territory. It presents a 3D version of the business district and its projects such as The Link, the Place de La Défense and the new Groues district. Whether you want to get a bird's eye view or a bird's eye view, explore more than 550 hectares from your screen!

As part of its strategy to transform the territory, Paris La Défense has launched a consultation for urban project management in order to upgrade the public spaces in the Faubourg de l'Arche sector, on the perimeter of the OIN de La Défense, and to accompany the real estate changes to come.

Paris La Défense selects 16 candidates. A total of 34 groups applied for the Empreintes call for mixed-use, low-carbon urban projects, launched by Paris La Défense at MIPIM in March. Empreintes involves the transformation of 5 sites, located at the junction of the business district and the urban fabric of the towns of Puteaux and Courbevoie. Environmental exemplarity, contribution to neighborhood life, durability and technical innovation are the guiding principles.

On Wednesday September 21, Paris La Défense brought together nearly 400 representatives of local businesses, building owners and managers. Organized in conjunction with RTE, IFPEB and the Hauts-de-Seine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the aim of the meeting was to provide information on the electricity supply situation for the coming winter, and to set joint targets for reducing the district's electricity consumption by 15% by the end of the winter. This unprecedented collective approach is in line with Paris La Défense's ambition to halve the area's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

The Park will diversify the daily uses of employees and residents, while profoundly diversifying the urban landscape of the Esplanade de La Défense.

The Paris La Défense office market surprised in 2021. The district recorded, the highest level of transactions (in number and volume) in the last five years. With 205,000 m2 of workspace leased in 92 transactions, Europe's leading Europe's leading business district. Its attractiveness to companies withstood the health crisis, at a time when some were questioning the very principle of the office. As a result, by the end of 2021, La Défense's performance in terms of 20% above the ten-year average. You have to go back to 2016 to reach such levels.

At the end of the consultation, the consortium led by ILEX won the urban project management contract launched by Paris La Défense. This new 8-year framework agreement aims to complete the western part of the Seine-Arche ZAC.

Les Groues, located to the west of the Grande Arche in the commune of Nanterre, is a future 65-hectare eco-district being developed by Paris La Défense, in close collaboration with the city of Nanterre. This is one of the largest mixed-use development projects in the Paris region, with 4,500 new homes to be built by 2030. Acquisitions, construction, marketing, deliveries... new milestones will mark the beginning of 2022.

As it has every year since 2013, Paris La Défense has surveyed users, employees, students and residents of the area to assess their level of satisfaction. This year, 1,800 district users responded to the survey carried out in October 2021. Focus on the of this ninth barometer.

The Board of Directors of Paris La Défense met on December 28, 2021 to decide on on the follow-up to the settlement agreement reached between Paris La Défense and the company Hermitage on March 24, 2021, following a mediation procedure conducted under the aegis of the under the aegis of the Nanterre judicial court.

After more than 60 years in existence, Europe's leading business district is opening an unprecedented chapter in its history by setting a new strategic course and adopting a Raison d'être*. Climate change and the Covid-19 health crisis have led us to rethink the historic development development based on densification and monofunctionality. At a time when reproducing the mechanisms of the past carries the risk of ecological, social and financial deadlock, and financial impasse, Paris La Défense is committed to experimenting with new ways of living, working and building the city, and to becoming the world's first post-carbon business district.