He already supports the Arkéa-Samsic cycling team which is currently involved in the Tour de France. In the coming years, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa will also display its name prominently on the future football stadium in Brest. “For us, it’s obvious and a strong commitment,” said Julien Carmona, president of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, during a press conference on Wednesday at the bank’s headquarters in the Brest conurbation.
The mutual cooperative bank, which has already given its name to a stand at the Francis Le Blé stadium in Brest since 2010, is committed for the first eight years to the new stadium which will be called “Arkea Stade or something else”, indicated Julien Carmona, without specifying the financial amount involved.
A 15,000 seat stadium
At an estimated cost of 106.5 million euros, this new 15,000-seat stadium is to be built by 2027 on 17 hectares of agricultural land in Guipavas, on the edge of the Brest agglomeration. It must be financed up to 25%, or 27 million euros, by public funds provided in particular by the metropolis of Brest and the region of Brittany.
This new stadium project is criticized by Brest environmentalists, who believe that it is a “project from another time”, “useless and climaticidal” and plead for the renovation of the current stadium. “Every time we build something, we have a negative impact on the environment. We assume it, we know it, ”recognized Julien Carmona. “These are not easy subjects. There, we consider that the balance is very largely positive, ”he however estimated.