{"id":42757,"date":"2018-08-31T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=42757"},"modified":"2018-09-04T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:19:46","slug":"small-town-mayors-vision-turn-southern-bulgarian-sea-coast-into-concrete-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/small-town-mayors-vision-turn-southern-bulgarian-sea-coast-into-concrete-city.html","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Mayor\u2019s Vision: Turn Southern Bulgarian Sea Coast into Concrete City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concrete city from the southern Black Sea town of Tsarevo to the village of Lozenets – this is the plan shared by the Mayor of Tsarevo Georgi Lapchev<\/strong> in April this year at a meeting of the Municipal Council. Therefore, the current mayor, who is serving a second term after being elected on the ballot of the ruling center-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) is acting as a zealous successor of his predecessor Petko Arnaudov from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and a former agent of the socialist regime security services with the codename \u201cIvanov\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here is what Lapchev said in April:<\/p>\n

It is clear that Tsarevo and Lozenets will connect sooner or later, it is already beginning to be seen… This big thing, which will be called Lozenetz-Tsarevo or something of the sort, do not know exactly, <\/em>neighborhoods or somewhat, but they are starting to pop up, they will happen – explains the Mayor (see the minutes of the meeting in Bulgarian here<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

His speech is about the need to repair the old road Tsarevo-Lozenets as the summer traffic is intensive, but the road is in a poor condition. Lapchev sees this road as the main thoroughfare of a new tourist mega-settlement<\/strong>, similar to the concrete wall from the village of Ravda to the village of Vlas via Bulgaria\u2019s largest summer resort \u201cSunny Beach\u201d.<\/p>\n

So far, there are still concrete-free terrains between Tsarevo and Lozenets. A sprawling development is located only north of Tsarevo, where one can see the ugly scenery of the abandoned town \u201cCroco Beach\u201d, built by Russian mobster Kostya Tsiganov<\/strong> more than ten years ago. After the expulsion of Tsiganov for being a threat to Bulgaria\u2019s national security, neither the municipality nor the State undertook anything to secure or remove the ugly concrete ruins.<\/p>\n

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The next built-up area is near the campsite \u201cArapya\u201d, where there are no big hotels for now. The future Lozenets-Tsarevo development continues northwards in the direction the \u201cOasis\u201d resort, whose ownership is associated with another organized crime figure – Evelin \u201cBrendo\u201d Banev<\/strong>. Just before Lozenets, on the beach are the villas of celebrities such as Evgenia Zhivkova, granddaughter of Bulgaria\u2019s communist dictator Todor Zhivkov, and the singer Beloslava, among others. To the north of Lozenets, new hotels and villas are constantly popping up accompanied by construction plans for the pristine beach \u201cCoral\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pour Concrete – Become Millionaire<\/strong><\/p>\n

The building enthusiasm of Georgi Lapchev, who rose to fame for his participation in the TV show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire<\/a>” in 2011, is not limited to the north of Tsarevo, where the protected areas have long been liquidated. As it emerged from the case with the \u201cSilistar\u201d beach, he is ready to break the law by launching construction works on the territory of Park \u201cStrandja\u201d, located in Natura 2000.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the investor pressure is huge because Lapchev did not comply with the political rebuke by Prime Minister and GERB leader Boyko Borisov and lied to the entire country that he had not signed a plan for construction and there is no investment intention either. Such documents, however, in black and white, had been submitted in a report prepared by him and voted by the municipal councilors.<\/p>\n

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