three months late for the delivery of the Arena

The Porte de La Chapelle Arena, one of the few sports facilities built for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, will be delivered about three months late, the Paris town hall said on Wednesday, confirming information from the Parisian.

While the initial schedule provided for delivery of the Arena in the summer of 2023, the City is now banking on delivery at the end of the year, in December 2023, for an opening in January 2024, the entourage told AFP. of the sports and Olympics assistant Pierre Rabadan.

A new schedule has been confirmed by the Olympic Works Delivery Company (Solideo), for whom this delay has no effect on the Olympic schedule, a spokesman told AFP.

Covid and supply concerns

Located in the north of Paris, the limit with Saint-Denis, the Adidas Arena, thus baptized under a naming contract, and its 7,800 places must accommodate the tests of badminton and rhythmic gymnastics during the Olympic Games. The Covid, the supply concerns linked to the war in Ukraine and inflation explain these three to four months of delay, according to the first source at the town hall, which holds the project management.

This is the first delay on the Olympic sites, slight delays attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic apart. This shift will however have consequences on the occupation of the complex during the pre-Olympic sports season, and in particular the organization of preparatory competitions, the test events. Thus, the 2023 edition of the French badminton internationals is maintained at the Pierre-de-Coubertin stadium (16th century), discussions on the 2024 edition being in progress, specifies the entourage of Pierre Rabadan.

As for Paris Basketball, an elite club which was to take up residence at the Arena from the start of the 2023 school year, there remains Carpentier, a summary hall in the 13th arrondissement, until the end of the works, specifies the source at the town hall. The latter is in the process of seeing with the operator of the Arena, the operating company of the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy (SAE POPB), and the organizing committee of the Olympic Games (Cojo) if the club begins ( occupy the Arena) in the middle of the season or not.

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This summer, the City had given an updated budget for the construction of the Arena, entrusted to a consortium led by Bouygues, of 106 million euros, plus 32 million for related projects on the site. But with the energy crisis, construction assistant Jacques Baudrier has seen a real increase in costs of 10 to 15% over the past three to four months, as well as occasional supply problems on certain sites, which are causing delays.

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