Camera has this morning signed a cooperation protocol with the President of the Chamber of Commerce to create IFEMUR
The fairgrounds, which will occupy an area of 250,000 square meters, could be ready in 2012
Murcia will have a fair institution that will respond to business demand and help drive local and regional economic activity.
With this objective, the mayor, Miguel Angel House and the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation, Pedro García-Balibrea, this morning signed the protocol of collaboration that will create the Feria de Murcia (IFEMUR).
The ceremony was also attended by the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Urban Design, Fernando Berberena.
The commitment to promoting the construction of the Exhibition Centre will be located in the Science and Technology Park, between the Campus of Espinardo and Guadalupe, is a project led by the Mayor, with the ultimate goal of providing the necessary infrastructure Murcia to allow make further progress.
IFEMUR share land with the Science and Technology Park, a major metropolitan park and the City Administration, in an area of one million square meters is between the Campus of Espinardo and the hamlet of Guadalupe.
If estimates are true, in spring 2010 could start the development works and construction of the building, once the autonomous region has already given its approval to the specific modification of the General Plan and the Planning Department will meet in the next day with the affected landowners to apply for early release from them.
Thus, IFEMUR become operational in 2012.
Both the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce invite you to join the project at the Autonomous Government and financial institutions with significant roots and historical links with the region.
After signing the cooperation agreement will create a commission to draw up the statutes establishing the institution grounds and defining financial contributions to be made by each of the participants in the project.
Of FICA IFEMUR
Traditionally, the city of Murcia was attended by International Fair of Food and Canning (FICA) relating to the business history of Murcia and the canning industry worldwide for decades fifties and sixties of last century.
Its beginnings date back to 1952, as Fair overall sample and every two years, until, in 1958, it became monograph.
His loss in 1975 was a decline in the projection that a city such as Murcia and a business network as dynamic as required Murcia.
Since then, businesses, especially tourism and trade, have been demanding an infrastructure to act as a catalyst for trade relations, making the city of Murcia in a position to compete with other Spanish cities that already have a fairground, allowing them to host major trade fairs and business events.
Palacio de Congresos
In parallel, the City Council is also working on building a new conference center to be located in municipal Juan Carlos I will occupy an area of 40,000 square meters and parking is in front of the Rendezvous Point very well served by its proximity to the Avenida Miguel Indurain, the highway and North Coast.
The project will be commissioned a renowned architect, has already taken its first steps, since Urbanism approved last July, an advance partial modification of a plan in Avenida Juan Carlos I needed to build the Palacio de Congresos at that location.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia