Now Coworking Lyon hosts meetings, training days, conferences and cocktail receptions for groups from 4 to 70 people. Two event spaces can be hired for a half day or a full day: Les Gradins, with tiered seating for 40, and the Espace cocktail, for 70 standing guests. Eight meeting rooms complete the offer. The centre is at 35 rue de Marseille, in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon.
Seminars and company events
The event offer is built around two spaces that are booked separately, so a day can move from one to the other. A typical plan puts the plenary session in Les Gradins in the morning, then lunch and afternoon discussions in the Espace cocktail, with a closing drink in the same room. Les Gradins suits a conference, a pitch to a jury, a product presentation or a general meeting: every seat sees the speaker and the screen. The room has a screen, a projector and a sound system.
The Espace cocktail is a bright, flexible room with a kitchen next door and a view over the city. It is offered for afterworks, client receptions, product launches, breakfasts and networking events. Team building activities such as cooking workshops or an escape game can be arranged nearby. You do not need to be a coworking member to book.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting rooms are named after Citroën models. Dyane seats 4 in a closed room with no glass wall, for interviews and confidential meetings. 2CV takes 4, Méhari 5 around an oval table with video conferencing, and Ami6 6 with a flip chart and connected screen. The Cabinet de curiosités seats 8 among sofas and armchairs, Traction 10 with a custom whiteboard wall, and DS 19 with video conferencing. The Amphithéâtre is listed for 60 with a large screen, projector, microphone and sound system.
Every room has an HD screen, HDMI cable, RJ45 socket and wifi. Rooms are booked by the half day or the day, without a subscription.
Catering
Catering is arranged with the centre at the time of booking: a welcome breakfast, a mid-morning break and lunch served on site, or, for the Espace cocktail, anything from aperitif platters to an evening buffet. The shared equipped kitchen allows food to be served on the premises. One contact handles the room, the set-up and the catering.
History and setting
The building is the former Citroën garage, built from 1930 to 1932 by Maurice-Jacques Ravazé. Jean Prouvé contributed the glass roof, the metal doors and the lift cabins. Cars once drove up to the upper floors on spiral ramps, and the 350 meters of ramps are still there: guests walk up them to reach the rooms. The building was listed as a historic monument in 1992 and converted in 2014. From the upper floors there is a view toward the basilica of Fourvière. A business school occupies part of the same building, and the Lyon 2 and Lyon 3 universities are close by.
Getting there
Tram T1 stops at Rue de l'Université and Saint-André, tram T2 at Centre Berthelot Sciences Po, metro B at Jean Macé and metro D at Guillotière Gabriel Péri. Lyon Part-Dieu station is reached by tram, and Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport is about 30 minutes away by shuttle. The building keeps an indoor car park of 200 spaces, and a Vélo'v bike station stands next to it. The Presqu'île is a 15-minute walk across the Rhône.
