Arena 2011 has already 3 variants
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Still new surprisals are surfacing around the planned multi-purpose hall for the 2011 Ice Hockey Worlds. Wellfree developer, supported by Bratislava self-governing region’s chairman Vladimir Bajan, would like to build the hall in location of Janikove role in Petrzalka - without any state subsides and no matter whether it will host the championships.
“We must first consider, what submits the investor and whether it is in accordance with the IIHF standard.” said about this opportunity minister of education Jan Mikolaj. He emphasised, that the location of hall will be considered after the evaluation of all submited projects.opportunity.
City Council of Bratislava is speaking about the location on Kalinciakova street as “the final”. Arena 2011, company created to maintain the Arena development, already submitted project to Ministry of Environment of SR for the environmental impact assessment. In the project, there are two possible locations - one on Kalinciakova street and one near international Airport of M.R. Stefanik.
Location west from the Airport was discussed longer ago, but the City Council rejected this location as unsuitable for transportation. But nowadays new discussions started about the financing of necessary highway junctions. It should be build by the developers of the nearest locations. Next to arena will be built luxury hotel with 352 rooms and another background.
The necessity of two possible variants is given by the Act No. 24/2006 Coll. on environmental impact assessment. “The project is now in preliminary environmental study. Variants submitted by investor are equal. Now we can’t say, which one will be considered,” said speker of the Ministry of Environment Peter Visvader.
