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The News in Brief

Monday, September 16
By Nika Gamtsemlidze



Adjara Group wins Tbilisi City Hall auction to implement Radio City project

Adjara Group has won the auction of Tbilisi City Hall, which aims to develop the former radio plant territory in Mukhiani. Adjara Group purchased the property for 23 million GEL.

The project of Adjara Group implies turning Radio City into an industrial city. Through this project, Adjara Group plans to develop small entrepreneurship in Georgia and create an innovative ecosystem.

Exhibition and entrepreneurial spaces and recreation zones will be established in the new industrial city. The project also brings together cultural centers and shared workspaces. The industrial city will play an important role in the development of modern forms of innovative commerce and economy in the country.

According to the Executive Director of the Adjara Group, Valeri Chekheria, the project represents “another large-scale and innovative initiative of the Adjara Group project planned on the territory of Radio City, which ensures the growth of tourism in Georgia and development of the country's economy.”

“We have some very interesting ideas we are working on now and will share more details with the public about our plans soon,” noted Chekheria.



Lonely Planet recommends travelers to attend Tbilisoba

Tbilisoba tops the list of the best culinary festivals of autumn 2019 by Arrival Guides. The blog of the world’s largest travel guide publisher Lonely Planet recommends travelers to attend Tbilisoba to dealing with the autumn blues.

The article notes that there is hardly a reputed travel publication that hasn’t listed the Georgian capital as an “it” destination for 2019.

“If you’ve been meaning to find out what the fuss is all about, there is no better time than the first weekend of October, when the annual Tbilisoba festival takes over Old Tbilisi”, – reads the article.

Tbilisoba is an annual October festival which celebrates the diversity and history of Tbilisi, it was first celebrated in 1979, on October 28.