Power Centres to Develop Small Bulgarian Towns

News.bg, 17 Oct. 2007

New kind of trade complexes will be build in 12 towns in Bulgaria, informed money.bg. This will contribute for decrease of the unemployment.
The project is elaborated by Israeli company with Bulgarian participation of ‘Melina'. The chief of the company Yakov Niv, explained that the Power centers look like 1-floor trade objects, situated on 3 km away from towns.

Its distinctive features will include big parking lots, which envelop more than 70% of the built territory, supermarkets, furniture shops, boutiques, cafes and restaurants.

The company already bought areas for its projects in the towns of Vidin (North-Western Bulgaria, on the Danube River), Vratsa (North - Western Bulgaria), Plovdiv (central Bulgaria), Rousse (North - Eastern Bulgaria, on the Danube River) and Dobrich (North - Eastern Bulgaria).
In the towns of Haskovo (South Bulgaria), Blagoevgrad (West Bulgaria), Yambol (South - East Bulgaria) and Sliven (South Bulgaria) are foreseen to be made power centers in short term.

We chose to invest in peripheral towns, because no one direct to it yet. We also will support the decrease of unemployment in these settlements, said Yakov Niv. There will be a 1,000 new work positions on every centres.

The first trade center of the kind will be opened in the city of Vratsa in one year.