Piscine Molitor
Piscine Molitor (swimming pool, 16th arrondissement): 39 Paris Council deliberations, every fact linked to its source.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 13 September 2026.
The Piscine Molitor is an aquatic and hotel complex bordering the Bois de Boulogne, between the Roland-Garros stadium and the Parc des Princes, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Wikipedia ↗
No grant, investment or contract is linked to this place in open data. Its day-to-day running costs are not broken down by place: the gap does not mean it costs nothing.
What the Paris Council said about it
5 moments chosen from the 39 deliberations read.
NOVEMBER 2008Molitor entrusted to a private operator for fifty-four yearsThe Council approved the administrative long lease (bail emphytéotique administratif) and authorized the Mayor to sign it with ColSpa SAS (a Colony Capital group) for a term of 54 years.APRIL 2002Three expert assessments call the concrete 'extremely worrying'The deputy mayor stated that three consistent studies judged the state of the concrete to be 'extremely worrying,' making an identical restoration of the pool uncertain.MAY 2001Two thousand people in the boarded-up poolThe representative of the Prefect of Police described in detail the rave party of 15 April 2001, which brought together about 2,000 people in the disused pool, closed since 1989.SEPTEMBER 2000The Minister of Culture blocks the demolitionThe City stated that the Minister of Culture, Catherine Tasca, had refused, on 3 August 2000, the authorization needed for the demolition permit, which blocked the partial rehabilitation project.JULY 1999Selling building rights to pay for a poolThe Council voted on the redevelopment of the site: the City transferred building rights to Meunier Promotion to finance the rehabilitation of one of the two pools, with the opposition denouncing a sell-off of heritage.3 more moments, 1999–2021
APRIL 2021The City refuses to reinstate school time slotsThe deputy mayor issued an unfavorable opinion on a motion demanding school time slots at Molitor, explaining that the lease imposes no obligation to accommodate schools and that the site had proven unsuitable.OCTOBER 2002The abandoned project requires compensating the architectsThe Council examined compensation for architects Reichen et Robert and Mimram, whose 1997 project-management contracts were terminated after the hotel project was abandoned.JANUARY 1999Local residents take the project to courtThe Council authorized the Mayor to defend the City before the administrative court in the proceedings brought by the association Piscine Molitor, which sought the annulment of the 1997 deliberation on restructuring the site.Other places · Sport & swimming
