50 Projects that will make Belgrade a miracle European city

City Manager Goran Vesic announced 50 new projects to be implemented in the Serbian capital in the coming years, which is a program for land development adopted by the Belgrade City Council at the last meeting.  

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He recalled that in 2016 only 69 projects were initiated and about 500 construction sites were created, while three years ago, Belgrade Land Development Public Agency only had three projects.

Belgrade Waterfront 

- Belgrade Waterfront is building as we speak, realization of project at the place of the former State Ministry of Internal Affairs, of 60.000 square meters, is taking place. It is expected for the project on the space of former company Beko on Dorcol to be realized.

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Hotel Hilton and Central Garden 

Hilton Hotel and residential complex Central Garden are being built in Dalmatinska street. Also the construction of great residential complex Vozdova Kapija in Vojvode Stepe street, with fewer shopping malls should start soon.

The question is asked, how is there so many new projects and, until recently, the city only had three projects with the same budget.

The answer is simple, because all the money was invested in the Bridge on Ada, and now the money of the citizens and investors is equally allocated in all areas, with special focus on suburbs and construction of missing infrastructure - said Vesic while he was on TV Happy.

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Construction of sewerage in Krnjaca and factory for Waste Water Treatment

He said that within those 50 projects the construction of sewerage in Krnjaca is planned, with the total length of 80 kilometers, and the people living near the left side of Danube coast have the most problems without the sewage and he announced the construction of the Waster Water Treatment factory in Veliko Selo. Vesic reminded that there are similar capital works right now in Surcin, and he announced similar works in Batajnica, Mali Mokri Lug, Suncani Breg in Rakovica, street Bore Stankovic and on Vracar.

- All the projects in the next year will be financed from the budget or through public - private partnerships like construction of five Waste Water Treatment factories in Vinca.

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He announced that the special attention will be focused on replacement of plumbing pipes which are around 30-40 years old, and ens of pipe lines are between 50-100 years old, because nothing was invested in infrastructure for decades.

Also, the roads are in terrible conditions which are around 30 years old in average, and because of that we prepare 10 year long plan of rebuilding which will take 700 million euros. That is enormous money for the city of Belgrade, which has 1.600 kilometers of roads, said Vesic.

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Investors interested in area around the rivers and "Belgrade Waterfront" 

Vesic announced new big projects by the river, because "Belgrade Waterfront" Many investors are interesting in this area, which is totally unused.

Also there will be a conceptual design of the future tunnel which should connect the belt from the bus station to the Pancevo bridge and thereby to reduce the concentration of traffic by 14 percent, which is a huge success.

And it will be preceded by the extension of the old Sava bridge with two more lanes, and the continuation or realization of city center into pedestrian zone, announced city manager.

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Fountain on Slavija finished by May 

-Fontana at Slavija to be finished by May, as announced, and by the end of the year we will have a fully decorated road from Slavija to the Veterinary Faculty.

It the park between Slavija and King Milutin will also be decorated, as well as completely reshuffled Roosevelt street with bicycle paths. The work continues on Obilicev and Kosancicev venac, and the Marshal Birjuzova, while the works are expected to start on student's square soon - said Vesic.

When it comes to rationalization of school rooms, city manager announced the signing of agreement between City of Belgrade and the Ministry of Education, after the detailed analysis that was conducted in the past months.

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Rationalization of school areas

- No one is dealing with the school networks in Belgrade for decades now, and we have parts of the city where there are lack of students and some are overcrowded.

The main gain of this school rationalization is receiving new room for preschool children, because some schools will be turned into kindergartens, or some parts of the schools.

With this rationalization, there will be 500 new places for children in Novi Belgrade, 700 in Zemun, and the problem of lack of spaces will be done in that municipality.

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250 places are planed on Savski Venac, 300 on Zvezdara, and 280 in Rakovica and 75 in Palilula - said Veis and reminded that Belgrade is the only local government, with Novi Sad, that which subsidizes care for children in private kindergartens.

Also, the area for Sports High School will be concluded with this rationalization, and the space of Biological and Geographical faculty, announced the city manager and thanked Mladen Sarcevic on work well done.

(Telegraf.co.uk)