Les Docks Village

Format
Brief

City
Marseille

Country
France

Metro Area
Marseille

Project Type
Retail/Entertainment

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Office
Restaurant
Retail

Keywords
Adaptive use
Former warehouse building
High street retail
Historic preservation
Mixed-use development
Redevelopment
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2016 Winner
Urban retail

Site Size
4 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2013

Date Opened
2015

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Les Docks Village is a new lifestyle and urban retail center, located in the waterfront district of Marseille, that was developed by Constructa Urban Systems for owner JP Morgan Asset Management. The project involved the rehabilitation of the 15,000 square meters on the ground floor of Les Docks, an 80,000-square-meter office building originally built as a warehouse in 1857. The new design for the lower-level Les Docks Village retail area provides light, transparency, nature, and new color around 60 shops and restaurants arranged around four courtyards connected by an interior passageway that runs through this very long building. The upper floors were restored in an earlier renovation, and this ground-level redevelopment opened the building to the public with a festive and convivial atmosphere.

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Format
Brief

City
Marseille

Country
France

Metro Area
Marseille

Project Type
Retail/Entertainment

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Office
Restaurant
Retail

Keywords
Adaptive use
Former warehouse building
High street retail
Historic preservation
Mixed-use development
Redevelopment
ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2016 Winner
Urban retail

Site Size
4 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2013

Date Opened
2015

Websites

www.lesdocks-marseille.com/en/

www.5piu1aa.com/en/2013/06/marseille-docks/

www.constructa.fr/fr/metiers/grands-projets-innovation-immobiliere-urbaine

Project address

10, Place de la Joliette
Bouches du Rhône
Marseille, France 13002

Developer

Constructa Urban Systems
Marseille, France

Owner

JP Morgan Asset Management

Architects/designers

5+1AA Agency

ULI Staff

Patrick L. Phillips
Global Chief Executive Officer

Kathleen B. Carey
President and CEO, ULI Foundation

Dean Schwanke
Senior Vice President
Case Studies and Publications
Principal Author

Payton Chung
Director
Case Studies and Publications

James A. Mulligan
Senior Editor 

David James Rose
Manuscript Editor

ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2016 Winner 

Note: This case study draws extensively on information and text developed by Constructa Urban Systems as part of the firm’s 2016 submission to the ULI Global Awards for Excellence program.

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