After several years of bureaucracies and efforts, concrete offers from
three companies have arrived for the construction of a new stadium.
One of them is the “Bouygues” company, second to Europe as regards construction and very experienced in stadiums, and with all the resources to demolish, build and manage the stadium alone.
Another one is the Italian “Serenissima Construzioni”, which comes with a consortium, since they don’t have all the resources or great experience for stadiums on their own.
A Korean company, “For You Global Tech”, has shown its interest months ago and has brought a project idea.
The stadium’s board, with the help of a French consulting company, TeamStadia, has established the technical criteria for all companies who have shown their interest, and one of them is preserving the façade of the current Qemal Stafa stadium. The procedure ends on January 20th.
Many studies have been done, and the most important is the feasibility. The auditing KPMG company says that the average cost for a 16.000 seat stadium would be 71 million EUR, while for a stadium that can host 23.000 viewers, the price would be 40% higher.
Based on the KMPG study, the investment, together with the property value, would go to 93 million EUR for 16.000 seats, and 130 million EUR for 23.000 seats. The state’s contribution will be only the property, although the agreement with the “Kuq e Zi” Association, the shares are 75% for the Albanian Football Federation and 25% for the Albanian state.
Regardless of these numbers, the goal is one. Demolishing the 60-year-old stadium and building a new modern one. The works might start in 2014 and the stadium could be complete by 2016.
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