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EDITORIAL • PAGE 9
WEDNESDAY • 29 AUGUST 2018 • ISSUE 601 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
Valletta FC
close to
signing 'big
sum' deal
with Saudi
investors
JAMES DEBONO
EIGHT football pitches of farmland
will be permanently lost as a result of
the Central Link project connecting
Mrieħel, Attard and Rabat, according to
a preliminary study.
The preliminary impact assessment
said the project would result in the loss of
approximately 60,000sq.m of agricultur-
al land. The road-widening project will
link the Mrieħel bypass to the rounda-
bout at the foot of Saqqajja
Hill, below Rabat.
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Farmland size of
eight football
grounds to be lost
PAUL COCKS
STARBUCKS will open its doors in Malta next year
after db Group secured a licensing agreement with
the US giant for Malta and Gozo, having outbid com-
petition from a major Maltese beverage company.
And db Group – the developers behind the City
Centre project on the former ITS site in Pembroke –
intend to open the first outlets in 2019, MaltaToday
has learned.
Sources said that the news was announced yester-
day at a closed-door meeting the Group organised
for stockbrokers, during which the Group's annual
report for 2018 was also launched.
Arthur Gauci, db Group chief executive officer, an-
nounced the acquisition of the licensing agreement
but would only say that the first outlets
were slated for 2019.
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STARBUCKS
COMING
TO MALTA
IN 2019
db Group secures a licensing agreement for
Malta and Gozo with the US coffee giant
CENTRAL LINK ROAD PROJECT
