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(EUR 675,500,000)

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Zeljava
Croatia

COMMERCIAL ZONE: `AIRPORT �ELJAVA.` �ELJAVA-
PLITVIČKA JEZERA:

Investment project for sale:
�eljava Airbase, situated on the border
between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
under Plje�evica Mountain, near the city of
Bihać, Bosnia, was the largest underground
airport and military airbase in the former
Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in
Europe. The facilities are shared by the
local governments of Bihać and Lika-Senj
County in Croatia.
Construction of the �eljava or Bihać
Airbase, code-named `Objekat 505`, began in
1948 and was completed in 1968. During those
two decades, SFRJ spent approximately $6
billion on its construction, three times the
combined current annual military budgets of
Serbia and Croatia. It was one of the
largest and most expensive military
construction projects in Europe.
The underground tunnels ran a total length
of 3.5 kilometres, and the bunker had four
entrances protected by 100-ton pressurized
doors, three of which were customized for
use by fixed-wing aircraft. Eventually, it
was hoped that the base would be re-equipped
with the indigenously developed Yu
Supersonic aircraft.
The underground facility was lined with
semi-circular concrete shields, arranged
every ten meters, to cushion the impact of
incoming munitions. The complex included an
underground water source, power generators,
crew quarters, and other strategic military
facilities. It also housed a mess hall that
could feed 1,000 people simultaneously,
along with enough food, fuel, and arms to
last 30 days without resupply. Fuel was
supplied by a 20-kilometer underground pipe
network that ran from a military warehouse
on Pokoj Hill near Bihać.
Topside, the facility had five runways. In
the immediate vicinity of the base, there
were numerous short-range mobile tracking
and targeting radars, missile-equipped
sites, 2K12 `Kub` (NATO: SA-6) mobile
surface-to-air missile interceptor systems,
motorized infantry bases, military police
stations, and a hunting lodge used by
civilian and military leaders on occasional
leisure trips.
The airbase was used intensively in 1991,
during the Yugoslav Wars. During its
withdrawal, the Yugoslav People`s Army
destroyed the runway by filling pre-built
spaces (explicitly designed for the purpose)
with explosives and detonating them. To
prevent any possible further use of the
complex by opposing forces, the Military of
Serbian Krajina completed the destruction in
1992 by setting off an additional 56 tons of
explosives there. The ensuing explosion was
so powerful that it shook the nearby city of
Bihać. Villagers claimed that smoke
continued to rise from the tunnels for six
months after the explosion.
Today, the base often serves as a waypoint
for illegal migrants. A facility for asylum
seekers was scheduled to open there in 2004
or 2005, but the idea was abandoned, and new
plans were developed for it to become part
of the Slunj military training grounds, and
barracks from the nearby Udbina complex.
This idea was dropped, however, in line with
the agreement between the countries of
former Yugoslavia which bans any military
facility up to 15 km inside the borders. The
Bihać Municipality launched an initiative to
open a local airport using the runway.
Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest
national park in Southeast Europe and the
largest national park in Croatia. The
national park was founded in 1949 and is
situated in the mountainous karst area of
central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The important north-south road
connection, which passes through the
national park area, connects the Croatian
inland with the Adriatic coastal region. The
protected area extends over 296.85 square
kilometres (73,350 acres). About 90% of this
area is part of Lika-Senj County, while the
remaining 10% is part of Karlovac County. In
1979, Plitvice Lakes National Park was added
to the UNESCO World Heritage register among
the first natural sites worldwide. Each
year, more than 1,200,000 visitors are
recorded. The sixteen lakes are separated
into an upper and lower cluster formed by
runoff from the mountains, descending from
an altitude of 636 to 503 m (2,087 to 1,650
ft.) over a distance of some eight km,
aligned in a south-north direction. The
lakes collectively cover an area of about
two square kilometres (0.77 square miles),
with the water exiting from the lowest lake
forming the Korana River. The lakes are
renowned for their distinctive colours,
ranging from azure to green, grey or blue.
The colours change constantly depending on
the quantity of minerals or organisms in the
water and the angle of sunlight. Through
different climatic influences and the large
difference in elevation within the protected
area, a multifaceted flora and fauna has
been created. The national park area is home
to many endemic species. Those species that
prevailed at the lakes before the arrival of
man still -south road connection,
Summers Real Estate is offering this unique
investment project for sale: Commercial
Zone: ″Airport �eljava.″ located in �eljava
� Plitvička Jezera
Complex commercial-business zone ″Airport
�eljava.″ will be located along the existing
military airport �eljava near the state road
A1 Zagreb-Split.
The complex will occupy 200 ha of building
land with the possibility of increasing the
zone.
We are suggesting the extension of the
runway and the construction of airport cargo
and passenger terminals, which can
complement the transport connections of this
part of the region and across the borders.
A landscape railway will connect the
Airport, through attractive woodland areas,
with the National park Plitvice lakes.
The zone will contain cargo and passenger
terminals which will connect this part of
Croatia with the other world destinations,
warehouse and custom-free warehouse,
administration and business centre in the
middle.
There will be a hotel with nightclubs and a
casino at the edge of the zone and the
shopping center.
GFA: 765 584 m2
TOTAL INVESTMENT: 765.5 Million Euros.
(Conceptual design- off plan, project to be
sold as a whole and cannot be split)
Please note that the square meter age and
figures etc. .., are approximate as this is
a planned project and has not yet been
built.
Summers Real Estate as a licensed real
estate company in cooperation with our law
team will regulate all the necessary
purchase documentation (key in hand`).

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