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Limassol marina project requires additional bank guarantees

Limassol marina project requires additional bank guarantees

Limassol Mayor Andreas Christou yesterday confirmed that there is currently an impasse in the procedure for acquiring bank funding for the construction of the Limassol marina, a large-scale project expected to cost around 170 million euro.
“There are certain issues in relation to the guarantees that the banks are asking for the Limassol Marina project. A [...]

Cyprus’ first mobile desalination plant

Cyprus’ first mobile desalination plant

Cyprus’ first mobile desalination plant providing drinking water for Limassol and people in the south-west is now fully operational.
At a cost of nearly 20 million euro and built in record time, the plant in Moni area, Limassol, started producing water just after Christmas and has now fully replaced expensive imports from Greece, which until last month, [...]

Colossal theme park Russian plan for Cyprus

Colossal theme park Russian plan for Cyprus

Picture a colossal theme park covering a million cubic metres of land, replete with waterfalls, swanky hotels, a museum and re-enactments of the ancient naval battle of Salamis. A staggering tourist attraction for Greece, no doubt. Except it wouldn’t be in Greece, but in the heart of Cyprus, to be precise.
According to local Cypriot media, the project, [...]

New Athens malls generate traffic jams

New Athens malls generate traffic jams

Absence of adequate parking spaces and shoppers’ reluctance to use public transport are causing a road congestion headache.
 Giant shopping centers, such as The Mall Athens, have millions of visitors every year but have not provided an adequate number of parking spots to serve the needs of Greek consumers, who seem to prefer using their own [...]

Urban challenges of today

Urban challenges of today

Anyone who’s been to the archaeological site at Kalavasos-Tenta in Cyprus will know that a group of people gave up their nomadic lifestyle to settle there some 9,000 years ago.
They didn’t know it at the time, but this community of pioneers developed an original civilisation called the Cypriote Aceramic Neolithic. Ignoring the poor preservation [...]

Minoan signs up second hotel group for Cavo Sidero project

Minoan signs up second hotel group for Cavo Sidero project

Minoan Group, the company that is building a new tourist resort at Cavo Sidero on the Greek island of Crete, has signed up a second hotel group for its project.
Six Senses Resorts & Spas has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Minoan that will see it build a hotel development at the White Sands location. [...]

Massive Larnaca golf project planned

Massive Larnaca golf project planned

A consortium of local Cypriot developers is expecting to receive the green light from the government to push ahead with the construction of a 300 million euro golf resort project.
According to the company, named Med Group, the new development will be built in Tersefanou, on the outskirts of Larnaca. Former Liverpool politician Derek Hatton, who is [...]

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