The voters of Seyne-les-Alpes said “yes” to the town hall’s plan to close the ski lifts of the Grand Puy ski resort, which has been facing a lack of snow and a drop in attendance for ten years. A page is turning in the Blanche valley.
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Alpine skiing is over at Grand Puy. “This will be the first site in the Blanche valley where we can come and go sledding at Grand Puy without fear of meeting a skier, and we will be able to indulge in ski touring and snowshoeing when there is snow. .. and natural snow“, wants to believe Sandie Bony
the manager of the bar restaurant “Le Chalet”, a family business established here for 60 years.
A little more than half of the 1,300 registered voters in Seyne-les-Alpes went to the polls this Sunday, October 6 for the referendum on the future of Grand Puy, the oldest ski resort in the valley. 71.31% of them answered “Yes” to the closure of the ski lifts, which have become a financial pit for the small town. Their choice will therefore be validated at the next municipal council.
“The ski lifts are therefore definitively closed on November 1, but we are not stopping tourist activity in the Grand Puy, we are changing the economic paradigm of the Grand Puy and we are really moving towards an economy of nature and sport “, specifies the mayor of La Seyne, Laurent Pascal, who recalls that the annual subsidy of 350,000 euros represented 13% of the municipal budget.
The chairlift and ski lifts will be dismantled and put up for sale.“A page is turning, a new chapter of Grand Puy will open, Grand Puy as we knew it, it will be in our memories, the laughter of children, all that and we will move on to new projects which will revitalize the station, I hope”, confides with a pang in his heart Anthony Julien, head of ski lift operations for seven years.
The station will also continue to operate in winter with new activities, the town hall has been noted for sled dog rides… Everything has to be invented. The new Grand Puy remains to be built.
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