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The focus of Bratislava’s presentation this year in Cannes concerns projects aimed at the continuity of development, zone conversion and selected projects representing various segments of real estate, especially housing, shopping, leisure, entertainment and logistics.

“The era of revitalisation and regeneration is gradually coming to an end also in Central and East Europe”, notes Bratislava Mayor, Andrej Ďurkovský, before the beginning of this year’s trade fair. “While the final decade of last century in Europe was characterised by a massive wave of reconstruction of historical centres, regeneration of former industrial areas, and the construction of shopping and entertainment centres, at present I feel that it will be those cities and towns that are capable of attracting also interesting production operations to their locality that will have the upper hand in future. The kind of operations that are friendly to the environment – science and technology parks, knowledge economy facilities, as well as for culture and leisure. These are the very segments in which I would like to see greater involvement of the private sector in Bratislava”.