The Puigmal ski resort, the highest resort in the Pyrenees-Orientales, will close. Placed in forced liquidation at the end of October by the Perpignan court, the Puigmal 2900 company benefited from a reprieve until November 29, to give shareholders time to look for possible new financing… In vain. Consequence: judicial liquidation is definitively pronounced.
“This is the end of the story, we have no idea what will happen next,” said Eric Matzner-Lober, one of the buyers of the Puigmal station since 2021, at the end of October.
The station, previously managed by the surrounding municipalities, with a maximum height of 2,700 meters, closed in 2013 due to a debt of 9.2 million euros, due in particular to the lack of snow for several seasons.
Public service delegation
The six investors of Puigmal 2900 took over the station in 2021, in the form of a public service delegation, with a project to diversify activities to depend less on the weather. But they also suffered significant dangers, with a broken chairlift in 2021 and insufficient snow in 2022.
Since the end of October, the Puigmal 2900 station wanted to thank on Facebook its “employees who worked very hard until the last day”, the “169 French and Spanish partners who supported the financing and activity of Puigmal 2900”, as well as to the seasonal ones. workers who kept the farm running for its 7,000 clients.
“Despite our personal and social investments that exceed one million euros, we have not managed to solve the economic equation that has become impossible this season in which costs, especially energy costs, have skyrocketed,” the station explained.
Source: BFM TV
