Temperatures are rising, but the nation’s economic outlook isn’t. Don’t sweat the slump this season. In order to provide an entertainment facility of international standards, especially for children, and to make the city a sports hub, Greater Noida Authority has decided to construct a recreational entertainment centre and a sports city on 400 acres of land in the region at a total cost of Rs 1,600 crore.
The authority is said to finalise technical and financial bids for these two projects this week and has invited consultants in this regard, which will ensure recreational as well as residential facilities at two proposed locations in the city. As per plan, the recreation centre will come up in Sector 20 on two tracts of land measuring 130 acres and 100 acres. However, the sports city will be developed on 175 acres in Knowledge Park-V.
The amusement park will have a zoo, theme park, orchards, an open-air theatre, a drive-in cinema, swimming pool, multi-functional courtyards for sports, exhibitions and other events, a spa, health club and a mediation centre as well. land use components will be 75 per cent recreational and 25 per cent support-based. The recreational park will also include an integrated golf course, restaurant, hotel, villas and a shopping mall.
In the sports city, facilities for indoor games like badminton, table tennis, basketball, handball, volleyball, gymnastics, judo, wrestling, fencing, boxing, weightlifting and taekwondo courts will be developed. A 9-hole golf course will be made and a wide green belt will also be developed. Seventy per cent area will include sports, institutional, other facilities and open areas; 28 per cent will be for group housing and residential use and two per cent will be reserved for commercial purposes.