ADPD Chairperson, Carmel Cacopardo said the old power station area in Marsa is an opportunity that should not be squandered for more tourism infrastructure.
Addressing a press conference along the Marsa coastline on Saturday morning, Cacopardo explained that this innermost part of the Grand Harbour had been always dedicated to the maritime sector, with the government announcing the development of a maritime hub at the Marsa shipyard dock site.
“This regeneration exercise should be taken up as an opportunity to re-organise, modernise and increase the maritime sector’s contribution to the national economy while reducing its environmental impacts. However, it does not make sense to shift these activities to outside the regeneration area as this will bring them closer to residential zones in the surrounding localities,” Cacopardo said.
He mentioned that the maritime hub vision had indicated an area of 175,000m² for strategic use of a number of related industries including…