French Guiana – Public meeting on the Rémire-Montjoly town centre project on 13 June 2025

On Friday 13 June, a public meeting was held on the Rémire-Montjoly town centre project, bringing together many residents around a common ambition: to build a lively, inclusive and sustainable town centre.

During the meeting, participants learned about the project’s main objectives, discussed its planned uses and shared their expectations in terms of mobility, facilities and quality of life.

This town centre project, for which Ateliers 2/3/4/ is assisting the municipality of Rémire-Montjoly, is part of an ambitious and innovative initiative in French Guiana.

It proposes a new way of designing tropical cities by combining:

• structuring public spaces that support everyday uses,
  – a strong presence of vegetation to provide shade and coolness,
  – mobility designed primarily for pedestrians and cyclists.

These discussions enabled residents to fully appreciate the benefits in terms of quality of life, prompting a shift in their views on the role of cars and parking in favour of a more rational approach that is better integrated into the urban environment.

On Saturday 14 June, residents, future residents and project leaders toured the future town centre together. This immersion in the field helped to raise awareness of the project’s spatial aspects, the location of future neighbourhoods and the major public facilities and spaces to come.

A big thank you to all the participants for these moments of dialogue and collective reflection, which will help to build a remarkable project for the municipality of Rémire-Montjoly and, more broadly, for the Guiana region.

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Project owner: Municipality of Rémire-Montjoly

Project management team: Ateliers 2/3/4/, GTI, SEGAT, INGETEC