<p>The BTL Park is scheduled to be opened next week according to City Mayor, Darrell Bradley. Mayor Bradley told reporters today that the project has many aspects to it, including zoning the area as an entertainment and tourism district for Belize City. Next week Tuesday, Mayor Bradley said, the first of two opening will take place.</p>
<p><b><i>DARRELL BRADLEY, Mayor, Belize City</i></b></p>
<p><b><i>“We are having, what we call a soft launch and that will be on Tuesday, January 21 and that will be a ribbon cutting ceremony and we are going to have a very small ceremony to inaugurate the park. The park is about 95% completed to date; if you can look at it, most of the infrastructure are already in place. The contractor, IE all they are doing right now is cleaning and landscaping work; some of the trees are being planted and the stage is already done, many of the businesses, the kiosks are already done and then we expect that the substantial part of the cleaning work should be finished this week and they are going to put down the last layering which is the beach sand right next to the sea and then the park will be accessible to members of the public. People are already using it; I came out here with my family over the weekend and quite a bit of people was out here using the park. I want to make mention that we are inaugurating the park in three phases; of course, you know that the first part of this project was the land reclamation where we added forty percent more park space and as part of that also we did the seawall and the second part of it is what you’re seeing going on now, the construction of the pier, the construction of the stage, the construction of the park facilities, swing sets, benches, the aesthetic quality of the park and the third part of it which is very significant which people may not be aware of, is the economic component of the park. We have been working very closely with twenty eight small businesses who will occupy this park. Twenty four of them will have booths and they will operate their business from the kiosk. The other four businesses won’t need kiosk, for example, we have a bouncy house business, a Jet Ski business. It is a good array of businesses that will offer much variety to members of the public and we are going to have a much larger concert similar to what we did on December 20 at Memorial Park to officially open it to the public; that won’t be the launch; the actual launch and ribbon cutting will be on January 21 and we are going to have a very large concert and opening activity on February 14.”</i></b><b></b></p>
<p>Mayor Bradley said that the delays have not incurred any additional costs to the park project.</p>
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<p><b><i>DARRELL BRADLEY, Mayor, Belize City</i></b></p>
<p><b><i>“We are having, what we call a soft launch and that will be on Tuesday, January 21 and that will be a ribbon cutting ceremony and we are going to have a very small ceremony to inaugurate the park. The park is about 95% completed to date; if you can look at it, most of the infrastructure are already in place. The contractor, IE all they are doing right now is cleaning and landscaping work; some of the trees are being planted and the stage is already done, many of the businesses, the kiosks are already done and then we expect that the substantial part of the cleaning work should be finished this week and they are going to put down the last layering which is the beach sand right next to the sea and then the park will be accessible to members of the public. People are already using it; I came out here with my family over the weekend and quite a bit of people was out here using the park. I want to make mention that we are inaugurating the park in three phases; of course, you know that the first part of this project was the land reclamation where we added forty percent more park space and as part of that also we did the seawall and the second part of it is what you’re seeing going on now, the construction of the pier, the construction of the stage, the construction of the park facilities, swing sets, benches, the aesthetic quality of the park and the third part of it which is very significant which people may not be aware of, is the economic component of the park. We have been working very closely with twenty eight small businesses who will occupy this park. Twenty four of them will have booths and they will operate their business from the kiosk. The other four businesses won’t need kiosk, for example, we have a bouncy house business, a Jet Ski business. It is a good array of businesses that will offer much variety to members of the public and we are going to have a much larger concert similar to what we did on December 20 at Memorial Park to officially open it to the public; that won’t be the launch; the actual launch and ribbon cutting will be on January 21 and we are going to have a very large concert and opening activity on February 14.”</i></b><b></b></p>
<p>Mayor Bradley said that the delays have not incurred any additional costs to the park project.</p>
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