Stožice Stadium Secures Shape (Sort of)
So, today pengovsky posts what he meant to yesterday: an update on the state of construction of the new Ljubljana football stadium. Originally promising to be finished by autumn 2008, mayor Zoran Janković revised the deadline after it transpired that the city (contrary to public statements of Janković’s predecessors) did not own all real-estate needed to build the stadium. When that particular problem was solved, mayor Janković set the new deadline for 30 June 2010. Truth be told, the city still has to buy some property to build the controversial Titova Street which is basically a part of stadium infrastructure, but apparently that is being taken care of.
In the mean time, the project itself took a couple of blows, as Delta retail chain backed out of a 220 million euro deal. It took months to find another partner and finally it was Austrian Supernova who bit the bullet in the end. On June 30th (almost a month ago), with exactly one year to go, mayor Janković organised a tour of the stadium construction site. Everybody and his brother attended, The Firm™ did a piece and today pengovsky posts a gallery of the construction site as it was a month ago.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
can’t wait……
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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November 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
[...] first term is marked by expeditious construction of many project, most notable being the Stožice Football stadium, it is also marked (or marred, whichever you prefer) by creating a lot of resentment in various [...]
December 15th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
[...] actually built) one of this world’s many featureless traffic arteries, overlooked by the new Stožice Stadium (once it is built as well). Truth be told, Titova Street one indeed was Ljubljana’s main [...]
July 14th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
[...] Janković found a sympathetic ear with minister for education and sports Igor Lukšič (of PM Pahor’s Social Democrats) who proposed that the government fork out the cash. However, his colleague (both in government and in the party) finance minister Franci Križanič categorically refused, saying that there’s no legal ground to approve emergency budget funding and that Lukšič can go and spend his budget funds if he so wishes. The catch is that just about that time Prime Minister Borut Pahor announced a 500 million euros worth of spending cuts and naturally it wouldn’t look good if almost 5% of that sum were spent on finishing the Stožice project. [...]