MMArena, a new-generation stadium

11 February 2011 - Events - France

The MMArena stadium was inaugurated on 29 January in Le Mans (north-west France), in the presence of French Prime Minister François Fillon and Chantal Jouanno, Minister for Sport. It has taken less than three years since the signing in June 2008 of the 35-year concession contract, involving a total investment of 104 million euros, to complete this new-generation stadium – the first in France to be named after a company within the framework of a naming contract.

Designed and built as a multi-activity venue, the MMArena is located at the heart of a centre of sporting excellence in the town of Le Mans.

It boasts the various facilities enabling it to host sporting and cultural events (shows, concerts, opera) both on the pitch, and around it – where 3,000 sq. metres of function areas are dedicated to accommodating seminars, conferences and film shows.

It constitutes a prime reference for VINCI Concessions and for the VINCI companies who created it: Heulin (lead contractor), GTM Bretagne, Adim Ouest (developer) and Dodin Campenon Bernard, for VINCI Construction; HRC for Eurovia; GT Iris, Actemium Le Mans, GT Réseaux Sarthe, Citéos Sarthe and Axians Le Mans for the Energy business line.