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New City rise near Brazilian Stadium 

New City rise near Brazilian Stadium

24.09.2012

While Brazil is building new facilities for the World Cup in 2014, one project seems to be extraordinarily ambitious - Stadium "Pernambuco", which is about to become the center of a whole new city.

The Brazilian construction giant Odebreht receive on concession for period of 30 years so called "City Bowl", located 20 km from the city of Recife.

The stadium is one of the four projects, which the authorities have started from scratch. It is designed to be a multipurpose facility that can host fairs and conventions and major sporting events.

Also known as "Arena Pernambuco" project is under construction since 2010 Near it Odebreht plans to build environmentally friendly "smart city" of nearly 30,000 people with skyscrapers, commercial and residential buildings, parks and university.

"This is the most ambitious project of all stadiums for the World. Nothing like it, "said Ricardo Leytao Teixeira - Director of the Organising Committee in Recife.

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