Source: Narodno delo newspaper

The district of Konstantinovo  will have direct connection to the highways “Black sea” and “Hemus.

Professor Architect Ivan Nikiforov, Head of the Team of the new GCP of Varna

The new General City Plan of Varna is the first strategic elaboration to sketch the potential for development of the village of Konstantinovo and the region round it.  For their underestimation until the present moment speaks the fact that in the currently operative city plan, drawn in the 80s, they were not included. As a natural effect of it, a consecution of villa areas and urban formations appeared such as Pripek, Lazur, Panorama, Chereshova gradina and Krushova gradina, which lack the indispensable technical and social infrastructure.

According to Professor Architect Ivan Nikiforov, Head of the Team of the new GCP, the general idea for the development of Varna to the south will transform Konstantinovo in a city area of full value, attractive for living and recreation. This trend will be consolidated to a great degree particularly after the erection of the second bridge over the canal near Kazashko that will enable transport connection to both the city to the north and the seaside resort complexes. In actual fact from Konstantinovo it will be possible to set a connection with the highways “Hemus” and ‘Black Sea”.

The latter is a section of the European transport corridor No. 8. The thoroughfare from Varna to Skopje, Albania, Italy and West Europe will pass through this region. Considering the above, it will be indispensable the strategy of the GCP to be developed further with detailed planning and construction of drains and roads, as well as shops, places of resort and other service buildings. A lot of them will be erected in the new public centre of the region that has been foreseen according to the provisions of the plan round the intersection spot of the connection of Konstantinovo to the highway ‘Blask Sea” and the road to Beloslav.

“This area in prospect will be able to offer a lovely place for permanent and temporary habitation of circa 35 000 - 40 000 residents. All the indispensable administrative, commercial, cultural, sports and other similar facilities will be located in the centre of this new by its composition housing region of Varna”, explained Prof. Nikiforov. The plan provides for a new intermediary special school for the residents of the entire municipality.

It also suggests a high tech park that can be of regional or national importance to be located in immediate proximity to the regional centre of Konstantinovo. The farm yard of WCAU, existing from the past, is now going to become a modern industrial park, exclusively for clean productions. Tourism and attractions, shown in the plan as the future of this part of the municipality, are expected to be the main economic potential of Konstantinovo.

Yachts and an ethnographic park will entertain the tourists

One of the most interesting ideas of the GCP for the region of Konstantinovo is the project for an ethnographic village. Through it, on the south bank slope of the Konstantinovska river there will be the replicas of revival houses characteristic for the various parts of the country - Shiroka Laka, Jeravna, Tryavna, Koprivshtitsa and others. The complex will go down to the very river where replicas of old watermills, fulling-mills and other workshops will start operating.

Ethnographic village project

The GCP provides for the entire south shore of the Lake of Varna to be transferred into a resort area with marinas, fishing docks, an amusement park, a big zoo and a golf course. In the outflow of the Konstantinovska river, where a petrol base was previously foreseen, now there will be a marina and an exhibition park, in which flowers can be exposed and wines, produced in the preserved in the plan immense vine massive, can be advertised.

Marina Bay - Yacht Club Project