Place du Louvre: the city of Paris and the State sign a pact for redevelopment

Following the Notre-Dame project and the success of the Olympic Games, the City of Paris and the State will once again move forward hand in hand. This Thursday, July 3, the Paris Council unanimously approved the signing of an agreement transferring project management for the development of the Place du Louvre and its surrounding area to the Louvre Museum Public Establishment. " A historic act behind a technical operation," declared the Mayor of Paris Centre, Ariel Weil. In short: it is up to the museum, and therefore the State, to manage not only the redevelopment of its East wing, in particular to dig under the Cour Carrée a room of a thousand square meters entirely devoted to the Mona Lisa , besieged every day by thousands of visitors (the daily capacity of the most visited museum in the world is now set at 30,000 people per day), but also to develop the entire area which extends from the rue de Rivoli to the Seine, on the side of the Perrault Colonnade, opposite the belfry of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois.

Currently, the large stony platform is completely deserted or occupied by tourist buses. A redevelopment project has been in the pipeline for years by the mayor of Paris Centre. He successively commissioned a green simulation, a more livable alternative to what he said resembled " an impassable canyon, especially during heatwaves," then a historical study to retrace the stages but also the failures of