Developer would like to build Arena 2011 on his expenses
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
How much money will flow from the taxes for the Arena 2011? It is possible that the Arena won’t taxables cost any money. Discussion about the new sports hall for the 2011 Ice Hockey Championship still isn’t definitive.
Yesterday it was sure that the Arena will be build up in a Bratislava New Town and therefor the city will have to pull down a old school and later build up a new one. The new idea is becoming to life.
Bratislava - Petrzalka should be a brand new place, that is preferred by the nominants of the party SMER - Milan Ftacnik - mayor of Petrzalka and Lubomir Bajan - chairman of Bratislava self-governing region.
Govermnent discussed about the spending. Ministers promised pro tempore 4 miliards Slovak crowns. Member of European Parliament Peter Stastny claims that half of this value should be enough, and investor company Wellfree charge that they can manage it basically for free.
“The government already decided who is going to lead this building” the mayor of Petrzalka Milan Ftacnik commented the decree of Parliament support of the hall form the projects of partnership of a country and a private developer. He is not satisfied with a place of Arena 2011 and he argued for the place in Petrzalka: “It is better place not just because of junction with a highway.”
Ftacnik by the way belongs to the group of the people that think that is necessary to discuss with a developer that doesn’t need the money for the building from the state budget. “We have an interested person who is really a private developer” said the mayor about the company Wellfree, that would like to build up a stadium on the same place in Petrzalka, but for the private funds. Stadium equipment should cost about 5 milliards crowns that is basically about 1 milliard more than the price of national help for the hall in Bratislava New Town. The developer is explaining the price with larger number of the sports fields that is planned to build on Kalinciakova street.
Nobody knows if this project is real, city neither the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation (SIHF). “Bratislava town-council is verifing only its own premises for the purposes of the hall” said speaker of Bratislava town-council Eva Chudinova. Marketing boss of the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation Martin Ryba said that SIHF isn’t competent to judge this alternative of the private developer.
“The Federation did not choose a location of the hall” said Ryba from the SIHF and refered again on the town-council. President of Wellfree Atila Vajda argued that he sent an information about this intention including his project to everybody who participates in the developement of the Hall. He was also asking about an advices and expert assistance.
“Who will guarantee that the hall will be build up before the day of the championship will come?” argued Ryba. He adds, that the private developer has their moral support. The only advice is that the private developer shoud be registered to the competition that organize the Ministry of Education.
Ryba shows, how seriously is considering the Wellfree project: “They sent us only one sheet with the visualisation of Prague Sazka Arena”. Vajda from Wellfree argued: “That’s not true. We have never had that visualisations”.
Minister of finance Jan Pociatek who also received the project from Wellfree is more optmistic: “The project impressed me. I will support it as much as I can. He is convinced, that the project should be successful.
