We thought the Open Sky file was definitely buried. Carried by the Compagnie de Phalsbourg group, this XXL shopping center which was to see the light of day in Pacé, west of Rennes, had indeed been abandoned in 2019 in the face of outcry. Two years after this surprise announcement by Emmanuel Couet, then president of Rennes Métropole, an agreement had been reached between the project leader and the community, the latter committing to pay 5.5 million euros to La Compagnie de Phalsbourg because of the damage suffered.
This real fiasco resurfaced on Tuesday before the Paris Commercial Court. One of the owners of the competing shopping center of Cap Malo, located north of Rennes, was tried there for abusive appeals against the Open Sky project. “These successive abusive procedures had considerably delayed the realization of the project for more than five years, forcing SCI Georges, a subsidiary of the Compagnie de Phalsbourg and Blot Immobilier, to have to abandon it because of the evolution of the position of elected officials. premises”, indicates La Compagnie de Phalsbourg on its website.
Eight million euros in damages
The Paris Commercial Court ruled in his favor by ordering SAS FRP II, a subsidiary of Foncière Patrimonia, to pay him the tidy sum of 8 million euros in damages, according to information revealed by West France.
“We are pleased that justice sanctions, for the first time in these proportions, the principle of abusive and successive appeals. This is a strong signal given to all those whose only objective is to prevent the realization of projects aimed at modernizing our country,” said Philippe Journo, founding president of the Compagnie de Phalsbourg.