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WEDNESDAY • 20 MARCH 2024 • ISSUE 886 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
Carnival village project to
become cultural hub with
cinema, theatres and studios
JAMES
DEBONO
jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt
KARL
AZZOPARDI
kazzopardi@mediatoday.com.mt
Government
to buy San
Gaetano band
club property
for €2.8m
A 616-seat cinema, a
380-seat indoor theatre,
a 914-seat outdoor
theatre and rehearsal
studios for rock bands
and dance troupes
are added to carnival
village approved in 2016
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A cinema and two theatres have been
included in a proposed cultural hub
that will replace plans for a carnival
village in Marsa's Albert Town.
The new development proposed
on the site of the former Govern-
ment Garage is set to occupy an ar-
ea the size of nearly three football
grounds.
The details emerge from a Project
Description Statement presented
by Festivals Malta for the site where
a carnival village was approved in
2016 but never built.
Photomontage showing extent of projected cultural hub in Marsa
THE San Gaetano band club has been spared eviction
after government agreed to buy the property the club
was renting at €2.8 million.
Culture Minister Owen Bonnici announced on
Tuesday government has entered into a promise
of sale agreement between the arts council and the
private owners.
The San Gaetano band club in Hamrun
