4 hours agoThe coverage of the National Stadium, a commercial hotel, and a football field
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)After 3 years of waiting, Albanians will watch football matches at the newly completed national stadium. But they are in for an unpleasant surprise: a schoollike stadium that does not resemble anyone else in the world. Transparency as a dirty sport metamorphosis has begun at crossing the stadium's 50 million worth [...]
After 3 years of waiting, Albanians will watch football matches at the newly completed national stadium.
But they are in for an unpleasant surprise: a schoollike stadium that does not resemble anyone else in the world.
Transparency as a dirty sport
Metamorfoza has its beginnings in crossing the stadium's land worth 50m euros (75%) to the Albanian Football Federation and (25%) the Ministry of Economy. In 2011 the crossing was made on the condition that it was not to be taken apart for nonsport purposes. Five years later this was no longer a government condition.
In early 2016 the Alb-Star company introduced the winner of the tender without competition for design and construction of the new stadium. Alb-Star was the only one to bid for the tower stadium designed by Prime Minister Marko Casamont's favorite architect. There was no consultation with citizens, even though it was about the National Stadium.
There was no transparency about the tower project: cost, funds, how the property would be divided, how the private company would afford to invest.
Three years later. Still nothing is known about: the ultimate cost, the amount of funds used, how much they were secured, how much is the size of public and private property.
