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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
nice tour. i'm curious about something, though: many of the buildings look new. what did they replace?
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Old buildings like these two old little houses (I think in two years, it will be a 7 floors residencial building here

)
Or parking lot
Three years ago, where is the new office building. It was an supermaket "ATAC" with a big parking lot.
Now the supermaket "ATAC" is in this building and the parking is underground.
These new buildings replace also industrial waste land like this district.
Three years ago it was an industrial waste land
Those cities are located in the
Haut de Seine or 92th departement, one of fastest growing departement of France (The fastest in economy

)
The GDP per capita ppp :
€62,000 or $83,300 (2003)
In France the nominal GDP is higher than the GDP ppp
It is actually the second richest departement of France and it will soon exceed the richest Paris.
The new business district, where are the largest french media groups is in the Haut de Seine.
La Defense (Paris skyscrapers district) is located in the Haut de Seine.
30% of office under in construction in Paris metro are in Haut de Seine
In october 2006 760,861 m² or 8,189,840 sq ft of office space was under in construction in the Haut de Seine
(Actually Paris metro is city wich build the most office space in Europe

)