Zvonimir Zarec Chosen as Director for Large Terme Bjelovar Project
September the 9th, 2022 - Zvonimir Zarec has been selected as the director for the largest investment in Bjelovar's history - Terme Bjelovar, which will take this continental Croatian town's tourism image to the next level (and beyond).
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, during the month of September, Terme Bjelovar will apply for its much talked about spa project, worth around 250 million kuna, and it will be done as a public tender as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Croatian: NPOO).
Zvonimir Zarec was elected in a public tender to be the director of Terme Bjelovar, a company 100 percent owned by the City of Bjelovar, which will deal with the construction of the aforementioned spa worth 250 million kuna, the City of Bjelovar announced recently.
Zvonimir Zarec was appointed as the new director of the project for a term of four years, and his main tasks will be related to the field of energy, the exploitation of Bjelovar's natural resources, and the development of tourist potential and investments in the use of green energy, they added in the press release from the City of Bjelovar. The newly elected director is not a member of any political party, which is also very important to note for anyone who knows how these things unfortunately often go in Croatia.
Until the appointment of Zvonimir Zarec as the director, it is also very important to note that the company Terme Bjelovar d.o.o. had no employees.
In addition to applying for the enormous spa project, Terme, as a partner of the City of Bjelovar, was approved for two more projects. One of them was for the construction of a new well in the Veliko Korenovo settlement, the co-financing for the preparation of the documentation of such is worth around two million kuna, and the co-financing of the construction of the well itself, which is worth an additional 25 million kuna.
The projects are co-financed by the "Energy and Climate Change" Programme of the Ministry of Regional Development and European Union (EU) Funds, financed by Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland as donor countries and the programme partner, the Hrvoje Pozar Energy Institute.
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Terme Bjelovar Wants Indoor, Outdoor Pools, Recreation and Water Park
January the 30th, 2021 - Local residents and other visitors to continental Croatia are always in need of some very welcome refreshment and cooling off during the hot summer months. Could Terme Bjelovar be a project that proves worthy?
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, local elections are due to be held in Croatia in just a few months, and many projects across numerous Croatian cities and municipalities will be announced in the coming period. Whether Terme Bjelovar will be one of the successful ones could be found out soon.
Namely, as was confirmed over recent days by Bjelovar Mayor Dario Hrebak, the construction of Bjelovar spas in the Veliko Korenovo zone is getting closer and closer to realisation.
He explained that the Terme Bjelovar project is worth a quarter of a billion kuna including VAT, which includes all of the costs so far - the purchase of the land, the construction of a geothermal well, equipment, projects, and consulting.
The hopes and plans are, they have pointed out from Bjelovar, indoor and outdoor pools, ie Olympic sized ones, recreational pools and even a water park. Everything relies on a geothermal spring with a constant water flow of 10 l / s and a temperature of 30 ° C.
They expect that the development of Terme Bjelovar's ''thermal riviera'' will be the induction of new facilities that will encourage the development of other tourist infrastructure and the development of tourism in that otherwise often overlooked area of the country.
Hrebak explained that they decided on a "somewhat megalomaniac" project and an Olympic indoor pool after talks with national sports associations in Zagreb, where it was concluded that this is a unique opportunity to raise sport in Bjelovar to a much higher level.
"I held a meeting with the leaders of the swimming and water polo federations where it was concluded that it would be a real shame not to take the opportunity now and just skip the construction of the Olympic pool. Given that in 2021 the National Programme of Recovery following the coronavirus crisis will be created, within which all counties, cities and municipalities in Croatia will be included in the catalog with all projects in a high stage of readiness, I think we can get additional financial funds,'' said Mayor Hrebak.
Bjelovar had an indoor swimming pool until 2019 within the Retirement Home, but it was closed due to excessive maintenance costs. The outdoor swimming pool, on the other hand, was renovated in 2018 and has been attracting thousands of guests every summer since.
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