8% of Paris La Défense's real estate stock to be restructured

In 2024 and 2025, more than 250,000 m2 of office space, or 8% of the Paris La Défense property stock, will complete their restructuring to enhance their attractiveness before being put back on the market. Asset owners are committed to a sustainable approach to high-quality products. Here is an overview of the projects that have been completed or are nearing completion.

At Paris La Défense, the restructuring of obsolete buildings is proving its worth. This choice, made by an increasing number of tower block owners in the business district, is helping to renew the property offering at La Défense and improve the environmental performance of its stock.

Restructuring to attract

At Paris La Défense, almost one million square metres of office space are ageing. With around 8% of the stock being restructured, the district is continuing to modernise, with a twofold benefit: reducing the area's carbon footprint by avoiding demolition and reconstruction, and enhancing the quality of the business district's property stock, and hence its appeal.

This is the case for the recent and forthcoming redevelopments of Altiplano, Ariane, Lightwell and Hopen, creating renewed interest in the district's ageing assets. The investments made have enabled the older buildings to be repositioned at the same level of service as the new buildings, which explains why companies have been attracted, sometimes even before the work has been completed. Find out more about the ecological transition of tower blocks

For example, Altiplano (formerly the Île-de-France PB10 building) was largely pre-marketed to Enedis more than two years before delivery, and to Suez more than a year before completion. Today, only 13% of its 57,000 m2 remains available for letting. Arkema, for its part, has selected Lightwell (ex-Galilée PB15-PB16) from 2023, bringing the pre-commercialisation rate for its 35,000 m2 to over 80%.

Quality services

The emblematic Aurore tower is attracting new tenants from a wide range of sectors, thanks in particular to the creation of a service pavilion and a rooftop restaurant. This choice was also made for the Hopen tower, which at 150 m will house the highest panoramic restaurant with terrace in the business district, the first establishment of its kind in the district. The Ariane tower, for its part, is undergoing a total transformation of its building, even though the tower was rented out. New façades, new service areas, refurbished offices...

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And what about tomorrow?

This dynamic is inspiring the owners of buildings that are becoming obsolete, and new restructuring projects will soon be launched. A positive sign, at a time when the office sector needs to diversify its functions, is that companies are already positioning themselves to move into these premises, where work has not yet begun.

The next stage will also involve considering other uses for some of these buildings: residential, hotels, secondary education, etc.