Setback for transfer of airport area site to Plovdiv fair

Dnevnik a.m.

The site in the area of the Sofia International Airport that was eyed by the Plovdiv International Fair is classified as green area and any title transfer will first have to be approved by the chief architect of the city, Petar Dikov, it emerged at a government meeting on Thursday.

At the same meeting, the government gave the go-ahead to transfer the site from the assets of the transport ministry to those of the economy ministry.

Dikov could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

The economy ministry will next contribute the site to the balance sheet of the Plovdiv fair. It will be developed into a Sofia branch of the fair.

The proposal to provide the site to the Plovdiv fair came from transport minister Petar Mutafchiev.

Economy minister Petar Dimitrov has also endorsed the idea of setting up branches of the fair in other cities.