A few hours before the members of the Amateur Panathinaikos take the future of the historical team of Athens in their hands, the Costas Bakogiannis expressed her absolute trust that his creation will be voted in favor of a new modern stadium at the Botanical Garden.
“I have absolute confidence in the judgment of the people of Panathinaikos. I have absolute confidence in the judgment of Panathinaikos who love the Club, who love the team and I am absolutely convinced that history will be written tomorrow and that they will vote YES “
The Mayor of Athens re-provided all institutional guarantees resulting from the Presidential Decree, the three agreements signed between the four parties, the will of all and the agreement, which he described as “win win”.
For the financing of the project stated: “We are ready to auction the stadium immediately. Press the button. The project has secured funding, is ready to be auctioned, contracted and started working. This means that we will have a contract in about a year, if not earlier, and our schedule is that we will have completed the stadium in 2026 “.
The Mayor of Athens, categorically ruled out, if the project is approved by the General Assembly of the Amateur, that there will be a problem in its financing and construction, saying “When you have auctioned a public project, you have contracted it and you are working on it, it does not stop”.
For ownership of the new stadium Mr. Bakoyannis was clear: “The stadium of Panathinaikos in Votanikos, is the home of Panathinaikos for ever, forever … Dot and hyphen. “As much as his own stadium is the Avenue, so will the Botanical Garden”. He also added that the Amateur “has more rights in the Botanical Garden than in the Avenue”.
In a similar question, he stressed “The stadium of Votanikos, as I told you, is the home of Panathinaikos forever 99 years plus. From there and beyond, yes, it belongs to the Municipality of Athens”.
Regarding the ownership of the Alexandra stadium, he underlined:
“Alexandra’s stadium belongs to the Panathinaikos and the Athenians. I’m not going to open the “Pandora ‘s Box”. No president of Panathinaikos and no mayor did it for 100 years. Nobody wants to open this debate and I say this very consciously. I had said that the Panathinaikos family is important to be united. “Now I say that it is important for the Panathinaikos family and the Athens family to be united.”
Answering the question “what will happen if PAE Panathinaikos decides to leave Votanikos” Mr. Bakoyannis noted:
“I can not imagine that PAE Panathinaikos will leave the field to go and play where? But let’s say the “boss went crazy” and it happens. In this case, obviously the Municipality of Athens undertakes the maintenance of the stadium. “
Regarding the possibility of becoming a new stadium of Panathinaikos on the Avenue, the Mayor of Athens stated “Spatially, urbanly, technically we can not build a stadium, like the one we want to build at the Botanical Garden, on Alexandras Avenue. It’s very simple. “
Regarding the specifications of the stadium and the possibility due to the price increases in the building materials to make changes, he stated: “The budget of the stadium was 85 million. We went from 85 to 115 exactly, because very early on we saw the price increase and we wanted to integrate them to be safe. So there will be no problem. We have the best stadium in Greece that we want to build. That is why we have brought the best study team in Greece. The best engineers. The best architects, who have made us this study on which we rely. But, having considered and taking into account all the possible scenarios, this project is absolutely mature. “
Regarding the name of the new stadium in Votanikos, he said “We as the Municipality of Athens will support any decision taken by the Amateur and the PAE”. However, he noted that “the stadium could have a name from the golden years of the team”.
To a similar question if there is a case for the space that will be formed on the Avenue to be named “Panathinaikos Grove” he answered “I think it is a very good idea. But I would like to discuss it with the Panathinaikos family first. I would like to discuss whether we want to call it Panathinaikos Grove, Panathinaikos Grove Apostolos Nikolaidis “.
Asked if there is a case for renegotiation of the plan after a possible refusal of the General Assembly, the Mayor of Athens was absolutely clear: “I rule out any renegotiation and I rule it out because at the moment I simply do not understand what we could renegotiate. . »
We have all done the best we could. And we all, I repeat, have risen from the table winning with the most winning of all the Amateur himself. I remind you, new arena. So, we have the new arena, we have the facilities of the Amateur, we have the overall configuration of the space with some facilities for the Municipality of Athens a little further. And we have in Alexandras the green space together with the lobby, the museum and the underground parking. And all this with the amateur having all the guarantees for the maintenance of the stadium, for 15% for 49 years which was done with a special legal regulation. We have commercial uses that are guaranteed. And we also have the money, the income that the Amateur will receive from PAE. What is the renegotiation that could be done? “What could an Amateur who has not won gain?”
Finally, the Mayor of Athens, reiterated in an absolute way that the demolition plan of the Avenue will begin after Panathinaikos takes the keys of the new stadium and plays its first game at the new stadium.
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