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The project, which will include a 500,000 euro grant from the Higher Sports Council, will involve an investment of six million euros in the town and create about 200 jobs in the construction and operation of an ice rink with Olympic dimensions, where international sports competitions will take place.
The heart of the City of San Pedro del Pinatar today adopted, unanimously, the contract documents governing the concession of public works for the construction and operation of a center of technological sport with ice rink in the town.
The "Ice Palace" will feature an Olympic track 2,300 square meters, where you can practice sports like ice hockey or figure skating, a grandstand with more than 1,000 locations, and a curling rink addition by 608 square meters .
This project was funded with private investment, through a concessionaire, and a 500,000 euro grant by the Higher Sports Council, which will not cost to the City Council.
Councillor for Sports, Jose Lorenzo Martinez, has influenced today the importance of this project, as San Pedro del Pinatar will become the only European city where they are given, a few miles away, and ice sports.
In addition, the Spanish Federation of Ice Sports has confirmed that the World Championship Junior Ice Hockey 2012 will be held in these facilities, which will also host several preseason northern European federations of the sport.
In this sense, from the Department of Sports has acquired other sports commitments, so it is planned to hold more than 100 annual competitions in the future pavilion.
The facility, which will be located in the district of Los Antolinos as part of the Sports City, will also feature a shopping arcade and car park.
In addition, the specification requires the concessionaire to build tennis courts and sports courts in the municipality, and to establish a schedule for carrying out local sports and leisure activities, free of charge.
In the plenary session has also raised the possibility of a variable fee, if the benefits are greater than anticipated, they revert to the municipality.
Martinez stressed the economic and tourist impact will the Ice Palace, as they provide more than 600,000 visits per year and the installation will help break the seasonal opening a booming tourist market and a virgin in the area, as is related to ice sports.
In this regard, said that since the general direction of Sports of the Autonomous Region, has stressed the "broader impact tourism that the project will have on the region" because the strategic position of San Pedro del Pinatar, located between bordering provinces of Alicante and Murcia, is more than 2.5 million potential users.
Following the adoption of the specification, will open the bidding process, which will last 52 days.
As construction, whose execution time is a maximum of 18 months, could begin in March.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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