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Dismantling of old stalls at "Sakta" Flower Market has begun in Riga

Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga, 12.07.2011.Print version
Today, dismantling of the old stalls began at the "Sakta" Flower Market in Riga. Flower merchants are moving to temporary locations at the beginning of Terbatas Street in Riga, where they will continue to sell flowers until the new pavilions are finished.

A barrier has been put up around the old stalls, and construction will begin tomorrow. The plan is to finish the job in four months, until Latvia's Independence Day on November 18. The merchants will continue to sell flowers all summer nearby – at the beginning of Terbatas Street, where temporary tents with transparent plastic walls have been set up, writes LETA.

 

Skonto Buve Ltd. won the Rigas nami tender on the construction of the new flower pavilions, by offering to build them for LVL 700,000. CEO of "Rigas nami" Karlis Kavacs said that it is a large sum for such pavilions, but it has to be taken into account that they will have communications, a waste-water disposal system, they will be heated in winter, and an air conditioning system will operate in summer.

 

Riga Vice Mayor Andris Ameriks (Latvia's First Party/Latvia's Way) told reporters today, that "Sakta" Flower Market has been an issue for 14 years, because, although, it is not a big project, it has attracted wide public attention and created discussion. That is why it is one of the most sensitive projects in Riga, which had to be approved with both the public, and many institutions.

 

Ameriks repeatedly promised that in the new flower pavilions, space will be guaranteed to all merchants that have worked in the market up to now. In the existing stalls there are 38 selling places, but in the new pavilions there will be space for 30 merchants. However, it will be enough, because many merchants sold flowers in two or three stalls before the construction begun, added Ameriks. 23 lease agreements with merchants, that will be re-signed when the new pavilions are set to work, have been transferred to Rigas nami.






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