Bouygues has abandoned its real estate project on the former site of the Chancerelle sardine factory (Connétable brand), which closed in 2015. The latest, the Bouygues Immobilier solution, has just fallen through.
The list of aborted projects for the old factory is growing. The first to be interested in the subject was none other than Stéphanie Stein, a Parisian lawyer who arrived in Douarnenez in 2018 and wanted to transform the 7000m2 into a giant cultural space devoted to digital art. She resold it in 2022 for almost a million euros even though she bought it back for 290,000 euros without having carried out the planned work. In March 2021, it was the entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Le Goff, owner of the Faencerie Henriot in Quimper, who also wanted to turn it into a cultural space. But the project has just been abandoned due to "additional costs linked to probable archaeological excavations and decontamination and asbestos removal."