Investment
pours into Valencia (02/26/04)
(source :
IBI
News)
Marina developers along the Costa Blanca are
gearing up for the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia,
as investment money begins to floods in.
Valencia mayoress Rita Barbera and regional President
Francisco Camps have requested an investment of
600 million euros from the European Union Region's
Committee to restore the maritime district of the
Port of Valencia in time for the event.
The grants would also be used to improve access
to the future Balcon al Mar, the area of the shoreline
that will form a focal point for visitors to the
international sailing competition.
Public investment in Valencia is expected to be
1.9 billion euros, with external investment bringing
the total to three billion euros. The event is also
expected to provide 10,000 new jobs.
The provincial government has also presented a proposal
to make several of the Costa Blanca's harbours secondary
venues for the competition.
Harbours from Denia to Villajoyosa have extremely
good chances of becoming venues due to their proximity
to Valencia, although Alicante, Campello and Santa
Pola have also been suggested.
Valencia Port will host the competing yachts, but
hundreds of auxiliary vessels will require moorings
along the Costa.
Luna
Rossa and Le Défi make a place in Valencia
(02/19/04)
(source :
masmar.com)
According to the Spanish
Website Masmar.com, the new Luna Rossa Challenge
and the French Team Le Défi came to an agreement
with the Club Náutico de Valencia to use (at
Alinghi's side) the former Desafio's base for the
Louis Vuitton Cup 2000.
The two teams will head to Valencia in the next
two month as the new Defender is already beginning
its installation there.
The
Lion's Share for Alinghi and Oracle (02/15/04)
(source :
masmar.com)
The "Dársena Interior",
the section of the port that will serve as home
base for the Cup, will not be ready before the end
of the year or the beginning of 2005.
For that reason, a first speed race is now on to
discover provisional solutions that allowed first
training in Valencia imposed by a competing environment.
Here as elsewhere, Alinghi and Oracle have a length
in advance on the other syndicates.
The two billionaires teams agreed with the Club
Náutico de Valencia to use the
3000 square meter place that was the Desafio Español
base for the Louis Vuitton Cup 2000 (the new Spanish
Challenge will compete under a new burgee).
However, it seems that the two megateams are ready
to make a little room in the base for a third team,
which could be the former Défi Areva.
A meeting was recently held about this in Monaco
beetween Pepe Marzal,
the commodore of the Real Club
Náutico de Valencia, and the French
representatives.
In the framework of
the European Year of Education through Sport, the
European Committee of the Regions has decided to organise
a Forum about "The impact of major sporting events
in host regions and cities" in Brussels on 11
and 12 February .
In total there will be around ten EU regions and towns
presenting their sports projects and the 32nd America's
Cup 2007 will be one of the majors events presented
by Mrs Rita Barbera, Mayor of Valencia.
An exceptional exhibition will be devoted to the return
to Europe of the prestigious and venerable sporting
event, 150 years after the first race was hosted by
the Isle of Wight (UK).
In the other events there will be the Athens Olympic
Games 2004, the Almeria Mediterranean Games 2005 and
the Torino Winter Olympic Games 2006.
Canal
works will start before the summer (02/09/04)
(source :
Panorama
Actual)
The Mayoress of Valencia
Rita Barbera announced that the public tender for
the construction of the canal will be opened in
the third week of February.
The 800-metre long canal, 80 metres wide and seven
metres deep will allow participating yachts to glide
out of the port and reach the race area in 15 minutes.
According to the Valencian administration, it is
expected that work will begin before the summer.
A very ambitious deadline for a public tender.
Vigo
and Valencia signed an agreement (02/02/04)
(sources :
Masmar
& Boot.de)
2003 was a very good
year for the Spanish. After Vigo, in the northwest
region of Galicia, was chosen to host the start of
the Volvo Ocean Race (on November 12, 2005), ACM announced
that the host city for the 2007 America’s Cup would
be Valencia.
Now the two cities have signed a partnership agreement,
declaring their common intention to make profitable
the proximity of the two events
"The goal is to join efforts to make our two
Communauty the reference for nautical tourism, on
the Mediterranean for Valencia and on the Atlantic
coast for Vigo", explained Manuel Fraga (also
known as 'Don Manuel'), the president of the Spanish
province Galicia.
According to the document signed by Manuel Fraga and
Francisco Camps, the President of the Valencian Generalitat,
the two Government will work very closely to prepare
their respective competition, particularly concerning
the promotion actions.
Meanwhile, Work has already begun in Valencia on its
massive expansion programme. Mayoress Rita Barbera
also announced this week the construction of a unique
hotel on Balcon al Mar similar to the Sydney Opera
House.
European
funds for Valencia 2007 ? (01/13/04)
(source :
Panorama
Actual)
Juan Eduardo Santón,
Valencia municipality councellor in charge of innovation
was today in Brussels in
order to access European funds for the America's
Cup 2007.
The European Union is also looking for projects
to support which will aid regeneration, such as
tourism and sport events, environmental activities
and retraining programmes for people who need to
find new employment.
After a meeting with Juan Manuel Revuelta, Permanent
Representative of Valencia to the European Union
in Brussels, Juan Eduardo Santón have met Damian
Lluna, administrator in the Commission for Territorial
Cohesion Policy of the Committee of the Regions.
It should be remembered that Valencia is a area
very favoured by the European funds, eligible for
financing under several programmes and projects.
A
common programme for Valencia and ACM (01/08/04)
(source :
Panorama
Actual)
The municipality of
Valencia and AC Management have scheduled a meeting
in Geneva in February "to define a strategy
of development", to write a "image and mark
instruction manual" and to get along on a "common
message of communication".
During this meeting, the contracts will be finalized
and the "parallel events" (cultural, social...)
will be examined.
The last meeting had been held in November, just
after the Spanish victory, and has been devoted
primarily to examine the work scheduled in Valencia
(see Valencia page for details).
America's
Cup work to start (12/19/03)
(source :
Panoram
Actual)
Work is to start on
the improvement of Valencia Port for the Americas
Cup is to begin next month, according to Jose Salinas,
the director general of the consortium Valencia 2007.
This was decided at the first meeting of the Consortium,
which also included Rita Barbera, the Mayoress of
Valencia, the Madrid Conseller for health, and Manuel
Lamela, the vice president of the Consortium as well
as Economy Conseller Gerardo Camps.
The construction of a canal to the sea that will join
the regatta site, the improvement of the interior
parts of the port and the final improvements on the
team bases all form part of this first wave of works.
Some of these are to be finished by next summer, in
time for the first of the 'pre-regattas'.
