A consortium including Abu-Dhabi property firm Al Maabar has announced plans to create a ‘world-class resort’ at the former Athens airport of Hellenikon that could be bring around €4 billion to Greece’s ailing economy.
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Hellenikon airport was turned into a sports complex for the 2004 Olympics, but most of the venues built for the Games have rarely been used since. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Olympic Airways aircraft remain grounded at former Athens International airport of Hellenikon. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
The consortium has pledged to invest €5.9 billion over the next 15 years to create parks, leisure, exhibition and concert facilities, hotels and luxury residences at the site. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Photographs from the former Athens airport in Hellenikon inside a hall where a museum for Olympic Airways was set up. Karahalis / Reuters -
Stray dogs roam the former Athens International airport Hellenikon. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Hellenikon airport was once Greece's flagship terminal and hub for international travel, but has been abandoned since its closure in 2001 to make way for a new and more modern airport. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
The consortium has pledged to invest 5.9 billion euros over the next 15 years to create parks, leisure, exhibition and concert facilities, hotels and luxury residences at the former airport and hopes to attract a million tourists to the area annually. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Athens’ Hellinikon airport, ignored for almost a decade, was sold to the Lamda consortium for €915 million. Above, Olympic Airways travel tag behind a desk inside the west terminal of the former airport. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
A burnt out arrivals hall at the west terminal of the Hellenikon airport, which was closed down in 2001 to make way for a newer, more modern airport before the city hosted the 2004 Olympic Games. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Greece's administrative court and parliament has two years in which to complete the cumbersome land permit procedure or the investors are free to walk away, according to Lamda Development chief executive Odysseas Athanasiou. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Hellenikon airport was turned into a sports complex for the 2004 Olympics, but most of the venues built for the Games have rarely been used since. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
An unused Olympic Airways airplane at former Athens International airport of Hellenikon. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Hellenikon stretches across 6.2 million square metres and it represents a huge commercial project for investors. Above, Olympic Airways airplanes left stranded on the airport since it was closed down in 2001. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters -
Lamda chief executive Odysseas Athanasiou redevelopment of the old airport could start as soon as 2016. Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters
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