Within the next year – possibly by the first half of the year – a contractor is expected to be in place for the construction project business park on an area of 450 acres in the area of Spilies Tribe Municipalitywhere they will be relocated from Eleonas about 400 transport companies. It is an investment in the order of 200 million euros which, due to its size, is required to have an approved special urban plan that determines, among other things, land uses, building conditions and restrictions. This prerequisite was fulfilled after the recent positive recommendation of the Central Council of Urban Planning Issues and Challenges (KESYPOTHA) of the Ministry of the Environment for the pre-approval of the special urban plan. The immediate next step includes the issuance of the joint ministerial decision that will seal the urban development of the business park.
With these data, the Contracts Unit of Strategic Importance TAIPED, which is responsible for the maturation of the project, is launching the international tender to select the concessionaire who will develop and manage the park within the first quarter. Part of the project includes the provision of financial incentives of 21 million euros to transit companies to move their headquarters from Eleonas to Phylis park. According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of TAIPED and chairman of the National Council of Supply, Thanasis Ziliaskopoulosthe project has multiple benefits for the economy, the environment and enhancing the competitiveness of the capital’s transport businesses.
It is estimated that the transfer of freight forwarders to the new business park in Phylis will reduce traffic in the area by 6,500 trucks. Kifisou avenuewhile a significant boost to logistics will be given by the connection of the planned logistics center with railway and Attiki Odos. Also, of the 450 acres of the Tribe’s organized receiver, only 80 will concern the facilities of the transport companies. In the rest, state-of-the-art storage and product distribution areas will be created. Since the project is funded by Recovery Fund, the relocation of businesses and the start of operation of the business park is expected by the end of 2025, a goal that seems quite difficult. And this, if it is taken into account that there is always a long period of time between the selection of the contractor and the start of construction.
In any case, the intervention is expected to have significant development benefits for Athens as well. And this is because, when the relocation of transport companies to Fyli is completed, a very large area will be freed up in Eleona – Botaniko surrounded by Iera Odos, Petrou Ralli avenue and Agia Anna and Orfeos streets. In conjunction with the regeneration projects co-financed by the Recovery Fund in Botanikos – Eleonas, the new Panathinaikos stadium 8,500 seats that will have a peri-urban green space of 260 acres and the planned building developments (e.g. office buildings of Demand in the former facilities of Softex), one of the largest urban revitalization projects in the country is expected to take place in the area.
