“
Erase the physical separation represented by the ring road
” with a roundabout transformed into a parking space or a hotel-restaurant right above the tracks: an inhospitable entrance to the east of Paris, the Porte de Montreuil begins a long transformation with a municipal budget of over 100 million euros.
This project "
in drawers
", which has just started with the destruction of a service station but will mainly extend from 2023 to 2029, represents a "
major investment of the City
" of Paris, underlined the first deputy (PS) Emmanuel Grégoire by presenting this project to the press on Thursday.
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The transformation of this door "
horrible, ugly and extremely dangerous
" as regards traffic, according to the assistant (EELV) to the transformation of the public space David Belliard, into a vegetated esplanade of 3.5 hectares, reserved for pedestrians and cyclists, will cost the city 77 million euros, according to Emmanuel Grégoire.
About 400 additional trees will be planted, for just under 200 kept and as many felled.
Car traffic will remain possible on two lanes, around the square which has become rectangular.
A large part of the budget will be used to "
fill in slab all the part today openwork
" in the middle of the roundabout, located just above the ring road, explained Emmanuel Grégoire.
Relocation of the Montreuil flea market
On the north side of the current roundabout, a 5 or 6-storey building, including a hotel-restaurant and a business incubator, will be built above the ring road to separate the square from the main road. .
Known in particular by lovers of second-hand clothes, the Montreuil flea market, one of the oldest in Paris, will leave a large outdoor car park to move into a double hall built in the same place in 2027, a ground floor surmounted by 5 floors of offices.
For this, the mayor of Paris will buy this lot for 26 million euros from the project leader designated in 2018, a consortium in which Nexity appears and to which the land will have been sold beforehand.
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If with this cover, supposed to make it "
more attractive
", the flea market will lose a third of its locations - from 350 to 240 -, in return it will be open "
5 or 6 days out of 7
" instead of 3 today. hui, underlined the mayor of the XXth arrondissement Eric Pliez, who intends to "
keep the popular side of fleas
".
