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Saint-Etienne Métropole’s new sports equipment, the Arena, will be delivered in April 2022. (© Saint-Etienne Métropole)
The work is scheduled until April 2022. The Saint-Etienne Métropole Arena will aim to become the temple of basket Stéphanois and major sporting events interior of the territory.
The room will count 4.200 places, “A very interesting gauge” for Herve Reynaud, 1st vice-president of Saint-Etienne Métropole. “This really signals both, in terms of infrastructure, architecturally and in terms of sporting content, the ambition of the Saint-Etienne metropolis”.
Weeks are numbered before the imposing building finally emerges from the ground at the entrance to Saint-Chamond, near the RN 88.
With 100% regional companies
“It is a project of attracting the territory”, welcomes the president of Saint-Etienne Métropole, Gaël Perdriau. In this last straight line of work, the Metropolis has shared a video which traces the evolution of the building, step by step.
100% of companies engaged in the construction of the Arena are from the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and more than half of the Stéphane metropolis. With a point of honor to create equipment “at the top of the latest environmental standards« .
It will have required an investment of 10 million euros from the Metropolis, 10 million from the Aura Region, 8 million from the Loire Department and 3 million from the municipality of Saint-Chamond.
The new home of Saint-Chamond Basket
The Arena will become the new home of the Saint-Chamond Basket Gier Valley, the club playing in the French 2nd division, which badly needed an infrastructure to match its ambitions.
This complex may also apply to host large-scale basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis, boxing events, etc. In particular international sporting events.
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