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Yialou Retail Park





REDS is developing the Yialou Retail Park in the area of "Yialou", Greater Athens.

Yialou is located 15 km from the center of Athens and has a catchment area of 1.6 million (within 30 mins). It will be the largest retail park in Greece.

Retail Parks often lack "atmosphere" and design. Yialou will provide a different, more welcoming experience to the retail park visitor.
It will include a hypermarket, DIY, toy, furniture, electrical and other stores, and will be adjacent to Greece's first McArthur Glen Outlet Center (a plot agreed to be sold to McArthur Glen by REDS). DEVELOPMENT TYPE: Retail Park LOCATION: Yialou, Greater Athens COMPLETION: 2009 SITE AREA: 91.000 m2 GBA: 54,600m2 GLA: 53,600 m2 COMMERCIAL VALUE: € 110 million PARKING LOTS: 1600

In 2007 a pre-agreement was signed with Henderson Global Investors Limited for the sale of Yialou Retail Park, to be developed by REDS.

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Elefsina Center





This center, located in Attica's western suburb Elefsina will not only cater for the undersupplied local area, but its excellent access via the National and Attiki Odos Motorways enlarges the catchment area hugely.

The retail center will comprise of both large and small retail units, as well as cafeterias and restaurants. Development Type: Retail Center Location: Elefsina, Western Attica Completion: 2009 GBA: 15.000 m2 GLA: 9.400m2 Commercial Value: € 20 million Parking Lots: 300

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Academia Platonos





One of REDS' more recent acquisitions is a site at Academia Platonos. Academia Platonos is located in the Athens Historical Center very close to the new location of the Athens Stock Exchange. The site, at this fast-developing area of Athens, will be formed into prime modern office space.

The offices in Academia Platonos are part of a real estate development framework that will give new dimensions to the business pulse and urban life of Athens.

The project involves high-standard office buildings, of which business life in the Athens' center is lacking, with essential modern facilities consistent with the requirements for Grade A office space. DEVELOPMENT TYPE: Offices LOCATION: Athens, CBD COMPLETION: 2009 GBA: 19.000m2 PARKING LOTS: 380 COMMERCIAL VALUE: € 50 million
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Athens Metropolitan Expo





In Autumn 2007, REDS S.A. announced its 11,7% participation in the share capital of the company "Athens Metropolitan Expo S.A." which - through a concession agreement will develop and operate the new Exhibition & Conference Centre at premises of the Athens International Airport.

Athens Metropolitan Expo will be the capital's largest Exhibition and Conference Center. DEVELOPMENT TYPE: Exhibition and Conference Center LOCATION: Athens International Airport, Spata COMPLETION: 2008 PLOT SIZE: 140.000 m2 GBA: 55.000 m2 GLA: 45.000 m2 No. EXHIBITION HALLS: 5 No. CONFERENCE HALLS: 6
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[Messi]

where do I get such high qualiy satellite pictures? :O

[KONSTANTINOUPOLIS]

Here you go:

Microsoft virtual earth

[Messi]

hmm doesn't work on my pc! I tried every metropolis in Europe. London, Paris, Istanbul, Moscow, Milano, Barcelona, Athens, Berlin etc...

[arxeos]

konstantinoupolis where do you get all the info about new constructions? in athens and rest of greece?

[SouthernEuropean]

Originally Posted by Argentinian Messi

hmm doesn't work on my pc! I tried every metropolis in Europe. London, Paris, Istanbul, Moscow, Milano, Barcelona, Athens, Berlin etc...

press the bird eye's view

[KONSTANTINOUPOLIS]

@ arxeos, nothing special, reading and hearing - learning - searching - finding and posting, thats all.

@ AM, switch from "3D" to "2D". Then zoom in to the country -> area -> city of your choice, after you have done that click on the option "bird eye's" and you are ready.

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Redevelopment of the Olympic Beach Volley Site





















http://www.arishellas.com/eng/projec...start=0&isel=0

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Metropolitan Park of Hellenikon - Proposal

Proposal for the HMP, Hellenikon when it 's completed (full scale around 2015) will be the biggest park in Europe (according to the ministry of public works).







http://www.arishellas.com/eng/projec...start=0&isel=0

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Redevelopment of the Canoe Kayak Slalom facilities













http://www.arishellas.com/eng/projec...start=0&isel=5

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Panathinaikos FC Stadion





















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[sk]

well done konstantinoupolis!great projects!!

[gm2263]

Next to the Panathinaikos FC stadium a new shopping centre, the biggest in Southeastern Europe with 80,000 m2 leasable space will be built. Until a new one with some 100,000 sq metres leasable space will be built close to the Athens airport. I am not sure if it will be from the REDS Development group or the Latsis group, I need to check.

Also, In the introductory document about the new park in the former Hellenikon Airport, it is the first timer after 25+ years that the use of the words "tall buildings" is observed with regards to the developments due to take place in the north-east side of the complex. In a prominent and not necessary pro-skyscraper Greek newspaper (that is, Eleftherotypia for the ones familiar with the Greek reality) we have seen the number "five" next to the alleged "tall buildings" that are to be built there.

However, nothing concrete is available yet, although we have been flooded with various events and publications that call for the return of height in the urban planning of Athens. However, in the absence of further developments in the field I keep my silence. The only thing that I know for sure are some rumours about some commotion going on with the entrance of the Dubai Holdings in the Greek Economy (they bought a few banks and other significant companies) who are major participants in the Marfin Investment Group, currently the biggest Greek corporate conglomerate... and we all know what's going on in Dubai .

In addition, it is rumored that Kostas Kondylis, who has built many skyscrapers (including some for Donald Trump) was reputedly in Athens and as for the Hellenikon area, there have been numerous proposals for its redevelopment including many with tall buildings.

Also, not to forget that now that all the boom for the infrastructure works for the Olympics has subsided and what we see in Athens is simply a moderately paced extension of the existing infrastructure network, in terms of Roads and metro stations, chances are that pressures for a vertical expansion in terms of commercial space in the new hot spots of real estates are high.

We may see the groundbreaking for the first new generation scrapers for Athens before the turn of the decade that is...

In any case, the projects depicted by Konstantinoupolis are notable, and we should thank him for bringing them to our attention. The coastal development plans are amongst the best in Europe and the market is now mature to receive their realization.

[Kuvvaci]

Originally Posted by KONSTANTINOUPOLIS

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wonderful projects. It's so good that all of them are social projects.

Will it be an opera house?

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@ sk,gm2263 thanks guys

Originally Posted by Kuvvaci

wonderful projects. It's so good that all of them are social projects.

Will it be an opera house?

Nope. The new opera will be at the place of the old Hippodrome at Delta Faliron.

The dark green area with the red lines:





http://www.arishellas.com/eng/projec...start=0&isel=0


The Stavros Niarchos Foundation will create a huge cultural park there. It will include the New National Lyric Scene (Opera), the New National Library, a big park + some others cultural facilities. The project will cost over 300 mil. euros.

Here (sorry only in hellenic) you can watch some videos of the meeting of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's board of Directors with the Prime Minister at the site in Delta Faliron. As the videos says (18/7/2007) the pre-works (i don't know if this term is right) has already began.

[SouthernEuropean]

KONSTANTINOUPOLIS you're one fire....now these are some great projects ....!!and about the proposal for Helenikon..is it just a proposal-or a good candidate or an approved project?

[KONSTANTINOUPOLIS]

lol, about hellenikon as you already know the ministry of public works resealed the previous month (26/11/2007) the plans for the site (something like a map with the rules and the terms).

http://www.minenv.gr/download/26-11-2007.map.zip

So i believe the proposal i posted yesterday will stay a proposal.

[Kuvvaci]

I noticed that all projects are public projects. This is good.

Do you have details of this cultural park?

[gm2263]

Details have not been announced since the end proposal may be the result of an international architectural competition. For sure though, the area will become one of the best recreational and cultural facilities in Europe, combining the Mediterranean setting with the European class in a very original manner.

I need to see the architecture drawings of these buildings to draw a conclusion since what we have up to now is rather sketchy at the moment. However, the fact that the project is to be realised by the Stavros Niarchos foundation, more than guarantees prompt completion (which for a project of such magnitude brings us to the middle of the next decade, somewhere between 2013 to 2015).

Notably, in terms of megapolisomancy - "urban magic" transformations, the new museums and cultural attributes are extended in almost a straight line - on the axis from North to South, that is, Vasilissis Sophias to the Syggrou-Phaleron "Delta" area. The war Museum, the newly extended Byzantine Museum, the new Modern Art museum which is a converted brewery factory also known as the "Fix" building, the completion of the new Acropolis Museum with its full opening next spring, and now, a new Library abd Opera, Lyric Theatre with other cultural venues nearby, not to mentioned one new 3,000 seat capacity ultra modern congress hall which came out of the conversion of the Olympic Taekwondo theatre.

Tall buildings give a city robustness. Cultural centres give a city quality of life, the "living well" (ευ ζήν) as our ancestors. And AThens has received many high-quality cultural venues recently.