The structure located on the Champ-de-Mars may well be titled “Grand Palais ephemere”, but its owner, GL Events, would like it to last for several more years.
“
The ephemeral Grand Palais
will be fully part of the legacy of the Games and will be very useful when the Center Pompidou remains closed for renovation for five years, the Palais de Tokyo will be under construction in 2026, as will halls 2 and 3 of the Porte de Versailles exhibition center from 2025 to 2027
,” argued its president, Olivier Ginon, in
Les Échos.
Highlighting a
“question of common sense”
if we want to maintain Paris as a world leader in the congress and trade fair sector, GL Events now insists:
“It would be an ecological and financial waste to dismantle it”,
after the Games. Olympics.
A waste? Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, but above all mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, does not see it that way. Certainly, she had voted in favor of the ephemeral Grand Paris (through the vote…
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