LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

As for the mass and wholesale large trade objects (so-called “’bazrobebi”), Two of them
Lilo and Navtlughi fairs are located in the South-East periphery of the city, and the
attempts to move other two (to Dezertirebi market and Eliava street) to the North-West
periphery had no results and the government was forced to be contended with making
them “noble” at the same places.
Although, in terms of city planning, their location will dramatically damage the city
environment. The casinos are concentrated in the central part of the city (today, as a
result of particular legislative steps only several casinos are operating in Tbilisi and there’s
an idea of moving all of them to Tskhaltubo resort – like the planned measurements in
Russia), newly opened restaurants are moving in the direction of Old Tbilisi or Automobile
highways, basically on the Mtkvari embankment and in the North-West exit of the city.
Construction of the sport-recreational objects are not following the requirements - there
are only 2 modern swimming pools in Tbilisi. It’s being implemented assimilating of the
water reservoirs in terms of amenities – here on the first place is “kus Tba” lake; It is
followed by Lisi lake and Tbilsi sea. Internal quarter mini-field (ground) network is being
expanded (basically, with artificial cover). By means of private capital new tennis ground
was built in Dighomi.
Energetically is being constructed Orthodox churches, besides the Saint Trinity grand
Cathedral, small parochial churches network will include every residential district – as
central, so peripheral. It must be separated issue of developing hotels network. World
brands of hotel economy have been wildly interested in Tbilisi. They operate in several
directions – reconstruction of already existed hotels, demolition of already existed building
and construction of the new hotels, acquiring of city forming objects and their adaptation.
At the current stage such interest from the world brands isn’t defined only by new
economic interests (operating hotels completing with guests is far from normative); It must
be defined as by future expectations, so by the presence factor of assimilating world
geography. Besides the entrance of the hotel-business grants on Tbilisi market, network
of the small hotels are being developed – due to their low prices and familiar atmosphere.
But, the main problem for the city ambitions to become tourist centre still remains nonexistence
of large, cheap hotels and hostels for mass tourism. We’ll also name
discrepancies of the city information system (including language) and catastrophic
conditions of the public toilets – as in quantity terms, so in terms of quality among the
factors biasing tourism in Tbilisi.
Under the conditions of distributing real estate, most attractive advantage of the industrial
objects was considered to be territories occupied by the latest. It was particularly essential
in the central zones and the ones near it. In the years of Independence most part of the
Tbilisi industrial objects stopped functioning; Engines and equipments were sold as black
scrap metals; And the buildings itself in terms of modern technologies, didn’t make any
sense anymore. Instead of it, increased the interests of the builders to the territories
occupied by the above mentioned objects. On some of this territory already is
implementing construction of commercial housing (for example, silk weaving plant territory
in Vera district). Together with this, still exist such large industrial zones, which don’t yet
rise interest among developers (for instance, industrial zone of Ulianovka); Converse of
such zones would be facilitated in the case of supporting steps taken by state/city.
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