diff --git a/maven-model/project.properties b/maven-model/project.properties
index 33f63bd9d5..d925a54775 100644
--- a/maven-model/project.properties
+++ b/maven-model/project.properties
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #=====
 
 # TODO: remove http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/, just there for SNAPSHOTs
-maven.repo.remote = http://repo1.maven.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
+maven.repo.remote = http://repo1.maven.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://snapshots.dist.codehaus.org/modello/
 
 # Repository to deploy to
 maven.repo.list=apache.snapshots