St Denis.
Opposite the Front Populaire metro station (line 12), stands an imposing six-storey building of 30,000 square meters (wooden structure), a few hundred meters from the ellipse of the Stade de France.
The headquarters of the Organizing Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojo) was inaugurated on January 20.
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After a few offices at the headquarters of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee during the candidacy phase, then an installation at 96 boulevard Haussmann (8th arrondissement of Paris), the 400 employees of the Cojo (they will be around 3,000 in 2024) are symbolically settling in the 93.
“This anchoring in Seine-Saint-Denis is far from neutral.
It will contribute to what must be the main heritage beyond the physical heritage of buildings;
the pride of the population to welcome, to organize, to be part.
In Barcelona or London, the Olympic Games have contributed to the economic dynamism of certain districts ”
, underlines Mathieu Hanotin, the mayor
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