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Fortune
Alex Ledsom

Nine million square meters of office space is vacant across France. Can 'urban recycling' make way for housing or leisure?

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A recent study highlighted nine million square meters of office space lies vacant across France. In some parts of Paris, this amount of space is at an all-time high, with over one million square meters in the Greater Paris region vacant for more than four years, which accounts for nearly 24% of immediate supply. Double that amount of space has been empty for over two years. 

Most of the vacant office space in Paris is in the suburbs, a trend duplicated nationwide. It's forcing property developers and elected professionals to rethink office space into something else.

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