$100 mln to be invested in palm-shaped artificial island planned for Black Sea town of Batumi
Ambassador Island is the name of the project which will be developed on 90 ha in Tamari settlement, at the entrance to the city, near Batumi Central Station. Photo: Jaba Surmanidze/Facebook.
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In total $100 million will be invested in an artificial island in the shape of a palm tree planned to be built in Georgia's Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
Ambassador Island is the name of the project which will be developed on 90 ha in Tamari settlement, at the entrance to the city, near Batumi Central Station.
Photo: Jaba Surmanidze/Facebook.
Ambassador Island will unite two artificial peninsulas and one artificial island where commercial, entertaining, sport, educational, recreational, residential and touristic infrastructure will be developed.
As announced the project will employ more than 2,000 people.
In the meantime, it is planned to start in-depth research of the area.
A new terminal has been opened at the airport of the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi that will now be able to serve 1.2 million passengers annually. The expansion of Batumi International Airport was conditioned by the increase of passenger flow, which exceeded 600,000 in 2019.
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Georgia's Black Sea city of Batumi will join locations across all five continents that form the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, a project celebrating hotspots of creative industries and offering opportunities for experience-sharing and collaboration throughout the globe.
Infrastructure projects setting up utilities and roads are “actively” underway in the industrial zone of western Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi, the regional Government of Adjara said on Friday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has laid the capsule for the construction of the $100 million “largest investment project” of Ambassador Batumi Island in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi that will employ 2,000 people, the Government Administration announced on Saturday.
Tourism potential of western Georgia’s Black Sea coastline Adjara region, dynamics of tourism industry recovery and issues related to the implementation of the European Union conditions for granting Georgia the membership candidate status were discussed on Friday in a meeting between the head of the Adjara government Tornike Rizhvadze and members of the European parliament Marina Kaljurand and Sven Mikser.
Georgia’s National Agency of State Property has prepared amendments for the Law on the Maritime Space in order to regulate issues related to use of artificial islands and peninsulas created in the territorial seas of the country.