After Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), the town of Gonesse (Val-d’Oise) candidate?
Claude Tibi, the deputy delegate for finances of the city of 26,000 inhabitants, located northeast of Paris not far from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, wrote to the president of PSG, on behalf of his political group “Agir for Gonesse", to submit the idea of hosting the future stadium on the agricultural land of the Triangle de Gonesse.
On February 8, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi announced his desire to leave the Parc des Princes due to the standoff between him and the Paris town hall over the purchase of the stadium.
The next day, Valérie Pécresse, president of the Ile-de-France region, launched a call to find sites in the Ile-de-France region that would meet the needs of the Parisian football club.
“Of the options already put forward, the Triangle de Gonesse would be the ideal site, with its 110 to 170 hectares available,” assures Claude Tibi, highlighting “the three highways (A1, A3 and A104) which serve it, the airports of Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle and Le Bourget, and the station of line 17 of the Grand Paris Express”.
The latter would represent, in the eyes of the man who was president of the city's football club for 20 years, an asset in terms of accessibility for PSG supporters.
Gonesse would be connected, for example, to Saint-Lazare in 20 minutes.
“When the Stade de France was established in Saint-Denis, no one believed in it, and yet it developed all around,” continues the elected official, referring to “huge economic benefits”.
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