On Monday, the Yvelines prefecture announced that the state is ending its disputed plan to sell the Grignon estate, cradle of French agronomy, which hosts the AgroParisTech engineering school, to real estate developer Altarea Cogedim.

"A new disposal procedure" of the domain "will be launched in the second half of 2022", indicated the prefecture which specifies that this decision "does not call into question the schedule provided for the installation of AgroParisTech on the Saclay site", in Essonne, in 2022.

The second abandoned project

"This is very good news, it is the result of a fight which has lasted for five or six years and which will allow, I hope, to find another future for the domain of Grignon", reacted Georges d 'Andlau, co-president of the Grignon 2000 association, opposed to this privatization. "Another dialogue will have to open with the seller State and the local communities", he added. The Grignon estate includes a 17th century castle, listed as a historic monument, 130 ha of agricultural land, including an experimental farm, and more than 133 ha of woods. It is located in the small town of Thiverval-Grignon, about twenty kilometers from Versailles.

In 2016, the site was considered to receive the new training center for the Paris Saint-Germain football club, a 35 million euro project that had been abandoned in the face of an outcry.

The students do not question their move to the Saclay site, but opposed the takeover of the estate by the real estate developer Altarea Cogedim, officially registered in the summer of 2021. The developer notably planned to build on this site "a adapted residential programming ”with“ new buildings perfectly integrated in already urbanized areas ”.

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