The elect of the FFT have finally decided to keep the Parisian site for the organization of Roland Garros. This project involves the expansion of the place has got the two-thirds vote Sunday against Marne-la-Vallee, reached the final. Gonesse was released in the first round, and Versailles in the second.
Unsurprisingly, Roland Garros will remain in central Paris. The project supported by the Paris city hall has received a majority of two-thirds vote of the General Assembly of the FFT Sunday. The 195 delegates of the FFT are widely spoken in favor of extending the current site from 8.5 to 13.5 hectares and therefore against relocation to Versailles, Marne-la-Vallée or Gonesse from 2016.
This vote confirms the recommendations of the Executive Committee of the FFT which had expressed its clear preference for the project from Paris Friday. Paris, who needed 66.6% of votes to be accepted once this Sunday, has won the bet with 70% of the votes in "final" deal in Marne-la-Vallee, while Gonesse was eliminated in the first round and Versailles in the second, officials said a source familiar with the matter.
While the three cases competitors offered a brand new complex of about 35 hectares, Paris played the card of tradition, prestige, proximity and economy to defend their project that should cost twice cheaper than the other three (about 250 million). TFF will not own but benefit from a lease extended to 99 years, free of the clause revoyure after 25 years, a last-minute concession from the town hall.
The beginning of legal trouble?
The Paris project is now at risk of facing legal challenges from environmentalists and local residents. A petition against extending over part of the greenhouses of Auteuil has collected nearly 30,000 signatures, while the FFT is planning to build a new 5,000-seat short. Within minutes the decision, Councillor Green Paris Yves Contassot warned in a statement that "the legal, financial, environmental, choice of Paris may be a mirage as the obstacles are many and serious."
According to the mayor of Paris, the enclosure would be built on an area of 2000 square meters currently occupied by "hothouse" containing collections of rare flowers and technical buildings, preserving greenhouses classified as historical monuments. The purpose of providing short-Philippe Chatrier a roof light and the use of the stadium Georges-Hébert to implement the National Training Centre is also facing opposition from neighborhood associations.
. ROLAND GARROS-IN DATES
- The victory of the Musketeers (Lacoste, Borotra, Cochet, Brugnon) Davis Cup in Philadelphia in 1927 plunging the leadership of French tennis in trouble: no site sufficient to Paris for the French can to defend their title the following year. The French and Racing Stadium, making common cause, get a 25 year lease on a 3 hectare site which concession expired, after bidding the mayor of Paris. The new stadium will be called Roland Garros, the name of a former Stadiste, airman died for France in 1918. An architectural competition is launched, the proposed sports stadium concrete-Louis Faure Dujarric, highlighting the cross of St. Andrew, is retained: 10,000 spectators, dressing rooms.
- For fifty years, Roland Garros is almost no change, except the removal of the track, but the FFT on the financial bailout. It annexed the land of the Marey Institute, which allows the construction in 1980 of a "Central bis (short 1) of 4,500 seats (Jean Lovera Architects and Claude Girardet). Cost: 17 million francs (2.6 million euros), funded by TTF, state, city and region.
- In 1990, the mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac supported the proposed expansion of the stadium and the stadium sells the Fond des Princes in the FFT. The architect Didier Girardet sees an enclosure of 10,000 seats, the construction starts in 1991 before being halted after a court ruling on a complaint from residents. The court is delivered to the tournament in 1994, the bill amounting to 230 million francs (43.4 Million euros), according to the FFT. It will be named Suzanne Lenglen, the largest French tennis champion in history. Premises for the press, offices and parking of 516 spaces are aménagés.Le stage then extends over 7.9 hectares.
- All the galleries of the mythical "center court", which hosted in 1928 the French and Americans, have been demolished and rebuilt between 1988 and 2008. The "central" was named Roland Garros in 2001, a year after his death. Today, the Roland Garros stadium covers 8.5 hectares: one short of 15,000 seats, a 10,000, 4,500 and one of 18 short appendices. None is covered.
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