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Porte de la Chapelle

Porte de la Chapelle (square, 18th arrondissement): €6.1M paid by the City in 2025, 27 Paris Council deliberations about it and municipal bulletin extracts. The source of each item is given.

Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.

€6.1M
paid by the City for this place in 2025

The Porte de la Chapelle, whose full name is Porte de la Chapelle-Saint-Denis, is one of the 17 gates cut into the Thiers wall in the mid-19th century to protect Paris, France. Wikipedia ↗

One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City

What the City funds here

Also funded here
Organisations that receive a subsidy for an activity at this place without running it.

A contract amount is a ceiling: what was actually paid on it is not published by the City.

At the Conseil de Paris

6 moments chosen from the 27 deliberations about this place.

JULY 2022Arena renamed "Adidas Arena"; €180,000/year paid for local initiativesThe Council approved renaming the Arena "Adidas Arena" (naming rights); the executive highlighted a cost of around €100 million (half City, half Solideo) and a payment of €180,000 per year for local initiatives.Read the decision ↗
MARCH 2021Redevelopment programme approved; consultation disputed (92% felt unsafe)The Council approved the outcome of the public consultation, the objectives, and the programme for redeveloping the Porte de la Chapelle; the opposition challenged the consultation (92% of participants saying they did not feel safe there).Read the decision ↗
SEPTEMBER 2019€145,000 voted for a rest and respite space for crack usersThe Council approved agreements with the Aurore association (grants of €145,000) for a rest and respite space for crack users, at the Porte de la Chapelle.Read the decision ↗
JULY 2018Building permits and a study agreement approved for Arena IIThe Council approved the planning authorizations and a studies agreement, with SOLIDEO, for the construction of the Arena II on the Porte de la Chapelle site.Read the decision ↗
NOVEMBER 2016Opening announced of a humanitarian reception centre for newly arrived migrantsIn response to two topical questions, the executive announced the imminent opening of the first-reception humanitarian centre at the Porte de la Chapelle for newly-arrived migrants.Read the decision ↗
JUNE 2011T3 extension: the State's share (€20M of ~€300M) called scandalousThe Council debated the financing agreement for studies to extend the T3 beyond the Porte de la Chapelle; Ms Gachet called the State's share "scandalous" — €20 million out of a total cost estimated at around €300 million.Read the decision ↗
2 more moments, 2003–2025
OCTOBER 2025Motion calls for removal of 650 m² of Adidas advertising deemed illegalThe Les Écologistes group filed a motion demanding the removal of what it described as illegal advertising (650 m² for Adidas) on the façade of the Arena Alice Milliat, at the Porte de la Chapelle.Read the decision ↗
DECEMBER 2003Petition for a short-term redesign of the square, called one of Paris's main gatewaysThe Council passed a motion asking that the City examine, together with the neighbourhood council, a short-term redevelopment of the Porte de la Chapelle, "one of the main gateways of Paris."Read the decision ↗

Further back, in the municipal bulletin: 1969 · 1949 · 1938 · 1928

All deliberations ↗

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