First projects The creation of the
Campus de Ker Lann at
Bruz, in the suburbs of
Rennes, by the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine in the 1990s was to include a multi-sports complex at a cost of €65 million to be paid for mainly by the
Department of Ille-de-Vilaine. This was discussed in 1993 but did not come to pass. The majority
of the right from the
General Council supported the development of the campus, while the majority
from the left at
Rennes (and some of the local academics) were against it, preventing its realization. The project was revived when the
socialist Jean-Louis Tourenne became head of the
General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine following the
2004 cantonal elections. The opening of the complex on the Campus de Ker Lann was scheduled for 2008. The €45 million cost of the building was to be borne entirely by the General Council But budget cuts following the
2008 financial crisis jeopardized the project. bringing respectively €5 and €4 million. At the time, it was still the intention to locate the building on the
Campus de Ker Lann. At the same time,
CREPS Dinard saw its existence threatened from 2008 and a closure was planned for 2010. A backup plan was then mounted by including the
University Rennes 2 in creating a campus for sporting excellence in
Brittany. This project was approved on 27 October 2009 and the agreement was signed in Rennes on 29 January 2010 in the presence of regional president
Jean-Yves Le Drian and Secretary of State for Sport
Rama Yade. The agreement then said that a stadium whose activities would be limited to
athletics would be located at Rennes on the
Villejean Campus near the Sports Education Building at the university. An architectural competition was launched in June 2011 by the
General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine, and the winning project was presented by the architectural firm Chabanne and Partners on 1 July 2012. == Infrastructure ==