For the Thiais-Orly station district, the opening of line 14 of the Grand Paris Express in June 2024 will boost the momentum of urban projects. 345,777 m² of housing, 195,604 m² of offices, 59,987 m² of facilities, 28,551 m² of shops and 28,655 m² of public green spaces are planned in 3 development projects covering 118 hectares, or 59% of the station area: Cœur d'Orly, Parcs en Scène - Faubourg Métropolitain and the ZAC Thiais-Orly, which includes the project co-developed with SGP immobilier. Employees and blue-collar workers are in the majority in this sparsely populated district, which is also home to 3 shelters. The population is set to grow significantly and diversify over the next few years, with the planned delivery of 4,844 housing units.
The rate of salaried employment is very high (43 jobs per active resident), thanks to the presence of the Rungis logistics hub, Orly airport and Air France facilities, as well as numerous commercial warehouses.
Launched in 2013, the Observatoire des quartiers de gare du Grand Paris Express is a partnership tool that brings together the Atelier parisien d'urbanisme (Apur), the Société des grands projets (SGP), the Direction régionale et interdépartementale de l'environnement, de l'aménagement et des transports (DRIEAT) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) as well as the Établissement public foncier d'Île-de-France (EPFIF) and the Institut Paris Region (IPR). The aim of the observatory is to report on the urban and social transformations linked to the arrival of the metro, at the level of station districts, lines and the network.
Ten years after the first survey, a new phase of the observatory has begun. In keeping with the timetable for the start of operations, the new studies are based on the same perimeter around each station, with an 800-meter radius corresponding to the immediate area of influence covered in a 10-15 minute walk. They also include the main indicators for comparative analysis.
Seven themes provide a fine-grained overview of current and future urban changes - Living environment - Population and jobs - Housing supply and prices - Local life, uses and new centrality - Accessibility and mobility - Environment. They are accompanied by a simple datavisualization, accessible to all from the Apur website and updated every year.
