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This article was published on December 20, 2014 at 15:33.
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The countdown has begun. The yards of Fico, the theme park of the food on which Bologna has bet its relaunch, will open in January. And has already begun the phase of the selection of firms agribusiness made in Italy in the Disneyland of food.
Among 265 candidates, will be chosen companies will have a space in the restaurant and in workshops designed as mini-factories, places where visitors can not only consume zero kilometer but also attend the trial production of food excellence. “The questions came from all over the country – explains Tiziana Primori, CEO of World Eataly Bologna – although mostly from Emilia Romagna. The park will host eighty, while there will be about three thousand suppliers. Companies will be chosen based on excellence in food producing and representativeness, not only geographical but also by enterprise size. ”
All of Italy’s food quality and companies, large or small, that help to take high reputation in the world, from Sicily to Lombardy, will become the protag onists of an innovative park that covers a ‘ area of 80 thousand square meters. Seven thousand square meters of gardens and orchards, 4 thousand of demonstration farms. And next 44 mini-factories, 20 restaurants ten classrooms, spaces dedicated to events and conferences. Big numbers for a park that was born from an idea of the founder of Eataly Oscar Farinetti, in Bologna has put all agree, allowing to collect in a short time, through the real estate fund Prelios Sgr, 50 million euro for the construction of park, which will be managed by the World Eataly Bologna, now presided over by the same Farinetti.
To believe in the project were 22 investors, including institutions and individuals. From the City, which has provided the area of food processing center, where area is also home to the Faculty of Agriculture of the University Bolognese, to get to the Chamber of Commerce, Unindustria, Coop Adriatica and Coop Reno, Confcommercio. Besides banks, foundations. The roadmap provides for the opening in the fall of 2015. With the idea that, in the queue at Expo 2015, dedicated to food, “will be presented in Europe – says the mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola – as an attractive permanent. ”
The transaction will also allow the construction of the new vegetable market adjacent to the theme park, which in turn will be self-sufficient in terms of energy thanks to photovoltaic systems which is already equipped with the food center. The intervention is loaded with a lot of expectations. Since the immediate effects on employment. Usually we drop about a thousand new jobs that should increase to 3,500 share with the armature. To get to the big goal of cementing the many initiatives dedicated to food with which Bologna is trying to carve out a new identity in Europe, the capital of the food. For connections – is estimated a turnout of 5.8 million visitors a year – the City by next spring will present the feasibility plan for fast shuttles between the station and the park.
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