District facility · 1er

Les Halles

The Forum des Halles is a French shopping center built on the site of the former central market halls of Paris.

Actually paid

155.8€M

BMO archives since

1888

No subsidy, investment or public contract could be tied to this place in the open data: day-to-day running costs (upkeep, staff) are not broken down by place. Only subsidies to an operator, investment projects and public contracts that name the place appear here.

Works paid for, year by year155.8 €M

87.7 €M

See the 10 works programmes in detail (2010–2016)

LES HALLES - COMPTE FONCIER87.7 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES30.2 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES24.1 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES8.1 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES4 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES1.1 €M COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES240 k €COMPTE FONCIER - LES HALLES204 k €PEPINIERE HIP HOP LES HALLES200 k €MOUVEMENTS D'ORDRE - LES HALLES67 k €

Payments traced in the City’s published accounts: detailed per works programme until 2017, then only for some large projects from 2019. Each line links to the online accounts.

Key moments

NOVEMBER 2007The vote that launched the operationThe Council approved the principle of building the Carreau des Halles and the project management contract, following the selection of the Berger-Anziutti project by a jury in late June 2007.

NOVEMBER 2010The sale of the Forum, the project's financial pivotThe City proposed transferring ownership of the commercial spaces to Unibail for 238 million euros, with the 1976 lease yielding only an annual rent of 1.8 million euros.

MAY 2011The garden dispute, outside the budgetary stakesThe donation of logs from the felling to five associations (345 euros) triggered a dispute over the health condition of the garden's 343 trees, 260 of which were felled on 16 February.

MARCH 2012The judge penalizes the overrun in feesAfter the annulment of amendment No. 3 over a 28.5 percent overrun, the Council approved a settlement of 2.4 million with the Canopée's project managers.

JUNE 2016The facility, now open, as seen by its usersTwo months after the opening, a motion called on Unibail, manager of the Forum under the canopy, to take transit users into account: escalators starting late, elevators out of service, water leaks.

NOVEMBER 2018External oversight, eight years after the saleThe presentation of the Chambre régionale des comptes report put at 142 million euros the price actually paid by Unibail for an asset declared to be worth 752 million, and councillors cited the umbrella structure costing 1,195,374 euros excluding tax installed over a leaking Canopée.

See 2 more moments

SEPTEMBER 2009Public programming trimmed before construction beganDuring discussion of the site's insurance contracts, the debate confirmed the disappearance of the conservatory's 350-seat auditorium, which "added 11 million euros to the total cost," in favor of commercial space.

DECEMBER 2013The ongoing negotiation with the private operatorSeven deliberations settled the sharing of costs and floor space with Unibail-Rodamco during construction, and the forum's patio was named place Pina Bausch.

AI reading of 41 documents out of the 105 returned by the search — each line links to its deliberation.

In the Municipal Bulletin

Les Halles appear in the Bulletin municipal as early as 1888, when the Commission du travail set out the porters' request to have an office installed, for their own use, in one of the pavilions of the central market halls. The site then lived to the rhythm of the market: in 1918, voices during the session judged the Halles system "obsolete," a "worn-out organism" said to have lost its provincial clientele, against a backdrop of butter and egg shortages under the pavilions; in 1940, the stallage rate for additional stalls taken in the retail pavilions was cut by 50 percent on a permanent basis, and in 1941 the Committee approved a new wholesale price for mushrooms. In 1960, the Council was asked to rule on resurfacing the floor of pavilion IX and repainting the ironwork of pavilions III to VI. The archive finally bears the trace of the district's turning point: in 1969, an appeal was made during the session to "save the Les Halles district, including the Baltard pavilions," and in 1970 the number of wholesale offal posts operating in the pavilions was reduced from fifty-five to fifty-two.

Read the 5 citations in the municipal bulletin archives (Gallica)

1888“1170. — Installation of an office for the porters in one of the pavilions of Les Halles (Mr Chabert, rapporteur … Chabert, on behalf of the Commission du travai…”

1918“The Halles market has, through its own fault, lost its provincial clientele … The Halles system is obsolete, it is a worn-out organism … imminent, states that t…”

1940“SEINE Permanent 50% reduction in the stallage rate for additional stalls taken in the retail pavilions of the central market halls … Having regard to the prefec…”

1941“The Committee approved a new wholesale price for mushrooms at the central market halls”

1960“The Chairman. — I shall now put to a show-of-hands vote Mr Legaret's conclusions on the two reports concerning the resurfacing of the floor of pavilion IX and t…”

Account written by AI from the selected extracts of the city’s official bulletin — each extract links to the scanned page on Gallica.

Sources

Conseil de Paris (Débat-Délibs) ↗ · Bulletin municipal officiel (Gallica/BnF) ↗ · CA annexes, Ville de Paris · Wikipédia ↗

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