Paris, Champs-�lysées will become a big garden for the 2024 Olympics

In Paris, the Champs-Élysées will be transformed into a large garden for the 2024 Olympics. The project is part of a 250-million-euro plan to renovate the historic promenade. Announcing the project for the grand avenue that connects the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde was the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who previewed the news to the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. “It will be an extraordinary garden,” the first citizen said.

The project, signed by the PCA-Stream firm, includes improving the lanes reserved for pedestrians, reducing car traffic (which will be brought down to half the current amount), adding numerous green spaces, and this along the entire nearly two kilometers (1.9 to be precise) of the Champs-Élysées. Currently, it is a very busy and polluted boulevard, certainly not ideal for a stroll. With this project, in short, the Champs-Élysées will return a bit to its roots.

The news was greeted very positively by the Comité Champs-Élysées, the committee that has long fought to make the historic Parisian promenade more livable. “This official stance by the City of Paris,” the committee notes in a note, "is the concretization of a project started in 2018 by the Comité Champs-Élysées, an association that brings together the cultural and economic actors of the avenue (museums, theaters, cinemas, fund owners, companies and independent stores). The committee launched the challenge Réenchanter les Champs-Élysées based on a shared observation: the mythical avenue has lost its luster over the past three years.“ The committee is therefore pleased to be a ”constructive and committed partner of the City of Paris for the duration of the project. It will be particularly attentive to the metamorphosis of the neighborhood, within the project’s timetable and its level of ambition, matching the stakes."

Pictured is a rendering of the project.

Paris, Champs-Élysées will become a big garden for the 2024 Olympics

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