TIRANA, January 19 /ATA/ During the meeting with town-planners and architects on the development of Tirana, Mayor Erion Veliaj highlighted two of the newest projects, which coincide with the year of the European City of Sports: the new stadium “Selman Stermasi” and the new Sports Palace “Aslan Rusi”.
“Today, I want to announce that we want to start work on the new Sports Palace. In the difficult years of communism, the hangar was adapted as a sports arena, but today it is completely degraded. Now, we are the European City of Sports, we cannot play in the hangar in 2023,” he said.
Veliaj added that the same thing will happen with the “Selman Stermasi” stadium.
“There, we want to create another space similar to the National Arena. We abide by Marko Casamonti’s philosophy of having a stadium as well as a place offering some services; so, a space that is not used only once a week. On the contrary, we want to have a space that is used 24/7 by businesses, by the Tumo Center, by the company ‘Lufthansa Industry Solutions’, by restaurants, bars with radio, with televisions, with portals; that is, all kinds of industries, which operate there, plus a green field where football is played. I believe this philosophy already materialized at the National Arena has been a great example in the city. I believe that the area at “Selman Stermasi” stadium is one of the most attractive of Tirana, but at present it sounds busy only once a week when a match is played and only for the community of sports fans, not for other communities”, argued the mayor./ gj.m/p.s./
