The pill is necessarily difficult to swallow for Ceetrus, the real estate company which was a 66% shareholder in StatioNord, the company in charge of renovating the Gare du Nord.
As proof, the company, a real estate subsidiary of the Auchan group, usually very discreet, cracked a press release highlighting
"the obvious failings of its partner,
SNCF
, in its responsibilities as co-shareholder and in the loyalty required between partners"
.
He also insisted on the fact that the public company, a 34% shareholder in the capital of StatioNord, was involved in all decisions.
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Nevertheless: the abandonment of the project on charges of non-compliance with costs and deadlines is difficult to cash for a real estate operator with Ceetrus's ambitions.
Especially since this is not the first failure for the northern company, which was also the expected operator for the large Europacity complex.
This project worth more than 3 billion euros bringing together businesses,
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