The Grand Paris is a redevelopment of what was until recently a working-class suburb of Romainville and now is home to one of Europe’s largest cultural clusters. Created by Groupe Fiminco and managed by Fondation Fiminco, the art project opened in October 2019 on the site of the former Gaston Roussel pharmaceutical factories, founded in the early 20th century and eventually taken over by Sanofi. A plan to gentrify greater Paris’s eastern suburbs, La Plaine de l’Ourcq, it applies to five Parisian communes of Pantin, Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec, Bobigny and Bondy, adjacent to the Canal de l’Ourcq.