Montparnasse to become Paris's Times Square

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has suggested the area around the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper could become the Times Square of the French capital. Now its owners plan to try and make that dream come true.

Parisians joke that the best thing about the view from the top of the Montparnasse skyscraper is that you can't see the ugly 1973 office tower itself from there.

But that may be  about to change with plans to transform the site into “a beacon of modernity that will be the pride of Paris.”