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Why Borovets? An established international ski destination, Borovets goes back 80 years when the royal family and the upper middle class started building there weekend residences and chalets. Many of these can still be seen in the resort including the king's hunting and mountain retreat. Located 1 hour drive from Sofia International Airport Borovets lies on the northern slopes of the Rila Mountains, 70km from the nation's capital and at the foot of the Mousala peak (2925m), the highest on the Balkan Peninsula. Since 2004 when the idea of Super Borovets was first launched, the resort has been attracting millions of Euros of government investment in its bid to host the 2014 winter Olympics. Additional cable gondolas are planned to connect Borovets to Samokov, Beli Iskar and Dolna Bania.

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BOROVETS PROPERTY NEWS

Great Expectations for Super Borovets

14 Dec 2007 - Desislava Leshtarska
Is the construction of the most significant tourist project in Bulgaria a threat to the environment?

Backers of the Borovets expansion project say that the hotels, apartment buildings, and villas will be low-rise, and the whole complex will have a low density of construction, 20 per cent.
Super Borovets has been a name on many lips, both of its praise-singers and its critics, for a long time. It was no wonder that there was a strong turnout, with accompanying media coverage, when on October 10 steel gouged into earth at the ground-breaking ceremony that marked the start of the construction of a lift to connect the town of Samokov with the Markudjik ski runs.

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The ski transfer

The Guardian 28 Oct 2007 

ResortHoppa (0871 855 0350; resorthoppa.com), which runs buses from airports to ski resorts, has extended its service. Buses from Geneva to Chamonix, Flaine, Morzine, Avoriaz, Megeve and 18 other Alpine resorts now run several times a day, from £19 return. A new service in Bulgaria will run from Sofia and Plovdiv to Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo, and to Andorra from Barcelona, Girona and Toulouse.

Developers break ground for expansion of Bulgarian ski resort Borovets

Mon 08 Oct 2007
Borovets Invest, a joint venture between investment fund Equest and Oman investors, owns 67% of Rila Samokov 2004. The Samokov municipality controls a 25 per cent share.
Borovets Invest, a joint venture between investment fund Equest and Oman investors, owns 67% of Rila Samokov 2004. The Samokov municipality controls a 25 per cent share.

The much-anticipated expansion of Bulgarian ski resort Borovets, dubbed the Super Borovets project is underway  with the ground-breaking ceremony for a lift connecting the city of Samokov with the Markudjik ski runs held today.

The resort will be developed into a destination primarily targeting Bulgarian year-round holiday-makers, said the company official.

According to the expansion blueprint, construction density will be 20 per cent. The new hotels that will be added will have built-up area of 100 000 sq m. The total area of the planned vacation homes is around 400 000 sq m or no more than 4000 units.

The first of the project's two development phases should be completed within two years at a cost of around 650 million euro. A substantial portion of the investment resource will be borrowed.

The first phase will focus on the development of infrastructure like skiing facilities, ski runs and buildings at lower altitude. Work on adding a total of 40 km of new ski runs will begin in March-April 2008.

The second phase of the project, including the construction of the higher-altitude hotels, should be concluded by 2012.

The developers will invite an international competition to pick a project manager. The main building contractor for the resort expansion is local construction company Glavbolgarstroy which owns a 8% stake in the project.

Borovets Invest, a joint venture between investment fund Equest and Oman investors, owns 67% of Rila Samokov 2004. The Samokov municipality controls a 25 per cent share.
(Dnevnik)

BOROVETS EXPANSION KICKS OFF WITH CONSTRUCTION OF LIFT FACILITY

22.08.2007 Dnevnik a.m.

The much-anticipated expansion of Bulgarian ski resort Borovets, dubbed the Super Borovets project, is set to finally get underway in early October this year with the construction of a lift connecting the city of Samokov with the Markudjik ski runs.

The news was produced by Tuesday's meeting of the board of Rila-Samokov 2004 AD, the project company that owns 2 mln sq m of land in Bulgaria's Borovets mountain area for further development into residential second homes and associated infrastructure.

The whole project will be implemented into three phases.

The so called Lower Borovets tract will deliver 7,000 beds and a built-up area of 350,000 sq m.

A further 1,500 hotel beds are planned for the so called tourist core Beli Iskar. They will be distributed among family-run hotels, vacation villages and condo buildings. The area will also accommodate a lift connecting the river of Beli Iskar with the Borovets resort.

The bed capacity of Borovets proper is seen rising to 8,000 beds from 6,500 at present.

Another 1,000 hotel beds are planned for the upper Borovets.

Upon completion, the supersized resort will have 25,000 beds and 100 km of ski runs.

The investors expected to inject at least 350 mln euro in the Super Borovets project.

Borovets Invest, a joint venture between investment fund Equest and Oman investors, owns 67% of Rila Samokov 2004. The Samokov municipality controls a 25% share with construction company Glavbolgarstroy holding 8%.