This is the fourth cultural place taken up by the town hall in a year and a half, after, in particular, the Bataclan. An operation of nearly 7 million euros.
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and four. After the modern laundry Parisian, the golden arrow and the Bataclan, the city of Paris is preparing to get their hands on a new cultural place at risk: the tango, a gay night box of the marsh. The project was validated on Monday, November 8, by the Council of the Center Borough and should obtain the ultimate green light of the elected representatives of Paris at the Municipal Council scheduled for 16 to 19 November. This is the first time a Parisian nightclub passes through public control.
“The tango is saved, with more accommodations”, is already rejoiced Ariel Weil, the mayor (PS) of the borough. Because the city does not only take over one of the oldest balls in the capital. It buys all the small building located 13, rue to the Mayor, in the e arrondissement. Either the tango room on the ground floor and, in the floors, eight housing, representing about 340 square meters of living space. Acquisition price: 6.7 million euros. The final invoice should, however, be heavier, given the work to be expected, especially to swallow the facade, review the roof and perhaps improve the insulation of certain apartments.
Is this the role of a town hall to buy a nightclub, especially when the crisis rides the budget room for maneuver? On paper, the operation aims above all to develop social housing. The eight apartments will be entrusted to one of the social donors dependent on the city, Elogie-Siemp, who will rent them at prices lower than the market. “We save in full bets that risk, if not, to be transformed into offices or [Rentals] Airbnb”, ariel Weil plea.
If the left elected officials have been interested in this file, however, it is above all for the tango, these 200 square meters in the story loaded with chills. “Our goal is to preserve cultural diversity in Paris, explains Frédéric Hocquard, the Deputy (Generation · s) in charge of the Night and Tourism. If the city does not intervene, the land tension makes disappear from Little places like tango, the golden arrow or the modern washhouse. “
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That’s what almost happened in the marsh. On the 13th, street at the Mayor is a long-standing festive meeting. A cabaret, to the king of Sardinia, is listed in 1725, and the current room serves as a guinguette since 1896. Ball Musette Auvergnat until the 1980s, then “black” box, the place turned into gay dancing and Lesbian in the late 1990s. A nightclub as there are little more in Paris. No techno overpowering music, debauchery of lasers, nor “Carré VIP”. An oak floor. A description a little kitsch. Associative dance teas, Sunday. “When you are a young LGBT, that you arrive in Paris, and you do not want to go to one of the big places of clubbing, we quickly advise you the Tango,” says Gauthier Caron-Thibault, one of the elected officials. Origin of the redemption project by the town hall.
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