An unusual tender: the Eilat Municipality is offering for sale the luxurious tent used as the arena of the Miss Universe pageant, held in December in the city.
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The tender, published through the Eilat Economic Company, is aimed at developers interested in purchasing the huge tent, which is expected to become a major cultural venue at the city's new Terminal Park, seating an audience of 5,000.
According to the municipality, in preparation for last year's pageant, the city's tourism corporation rented the special tent from a Portuguese company. The contract included an option to buy the tent. Now, the city is putting it on sale for $850,000 and searching for a developer to plan, erect, and operate the tent to host large conferences and cultural events.
The tent's buyer will be allocated space in the city's new Terminal Park and the area will become a compound that will host concerts, events, and major conferences. The compound is spread out over an area of 11 dunams in the southern part of the old airport, between the two new highway sections that transect the park and connect Eilat's tourism quarter with the city's center.
The total contract period will be nine years from the moment of signing, divided into a construction period and an operation period.
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The event compound is part of the Terminal Park program planned for the southern part of the old airport. "Eilat's old terminal is about to be transformed from a closed complex, which today divides between the different parts of the city, into a municipal center offering diverse activities in the fields of culture, leisure, and recreation," said Eilat Mayor Eli Lankri.
The Terminal Park is planned as an attractive venue that will draw crowds and feature different uses for the general public, the city's residents and tourists. In the park's center, along the takeoff runway, an open park with walking trails and shaded areas will connect the city's east and west sides. It will lie between Sderot HaTmarim, Eilat's central thoroughfare, and the Promenade, and will include extreme sports facilities, touristic attractions, game courts, accommodation facilities, a culture and festival complex, and more. The terminal building itself is to be converted into a municipal innovation center, and roads that will be paved in the Terminal Park and outside it will connect different parts of the city and ease access to the new center.
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