A view of the Aegean’s newest $50 million marina which is set to dominate the Didim coastline has been unveiled for the first time.
As the exciting plans for the 287,000 m2 marina were released, three Government ministers attended the offical ground-breaking ceremony at the site, between Third Beach and the Parlementerler Sitesi, on Thursday Feb 22.
The layout of Didim D-Marina, which is scheduled to be open in summer 2009, reveals for the first time the extent of a new 'hub of life' on the 70 acre site.
The marina will have a yatch club, heliport for the rich and famous to land helicopters direct on the site, a capacity for 623 berthed yatchs and 600 yatchs in dry dock, a yacht lift for 300 and 100 tonnes, and a swimming pool.
The marina will serve mainly yatchs of 75 - 150 metres long, such as mega-yatchs which are increasingly in popularity on the Aegean and east Mediterannean seaboard.
There will be also shopping centre, supermarkets, yacht equipment shops, a fitness centre and a sports facilities, banks, a petrol station, restaurants and a cultural centre.
The marina will also crucially have ferryboat management for cruises to the Greek islands of Kalimnos, Kos and Leros, as well a customs post, pot authority facilities, a passport control unit.
Didim D-Marina is being built on a build-operate-transfer for 25 years by Doğuş Group, one of Turkey's leading construction companies.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Minister of Transport Binali Yıldrım, Minister of Culture and Tourism Atilla Koç, Secretary of State Kürşat Tüzmen, as well as Doğuş Holding Executive Ferit Şahenk and Vice Chairwoman Filiz Şahenk.
[source: voices]Dogus Group is indeed one of Turkey's leading construction companies, who do a lot of governmental constructions. Also they tend to always finish ahead of schedule.....people...get your row boats ready...
At the ground breaking there wasn't much to see yet. However in this topic we will post pictures of the progress of the marina.
