CNI take on mantle of Romania venue build

Image: Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu, Mister No, CC BY 3.0

The demolition work of the Dan Păltinișanu Stadium in Timișoara, Romania, officially began on February 24^th to make way for a new 30,000-capacity venue.

The SMZ Impex Company from Cluj (City in Northwestern Romania) which won the tender to tear down the facility has been given eight months time to raze the old stadium to the ground.

The construction reins of the planned new venue are in the hands of the National Investment Company (CNI) of Romania.

‘Actual de Cluj.ro’ stated that on February 24^th the workers focused on removing the stadium seats majority of which were broken, or totally worn out, and was not in a state to be reused again. The fencing and the scoreboard on the South Lawn was also removed.

The Dan Păltinișanu Stadium is a former multipurpose stadium in Timișoara, Romania. It was the second-largest stadium in Romania with a seating capacity of 32,972. Until its closure in 2022 it was used mostly for football matches by the local team SSU Politehnica Timișoara.

The Societatea Sportivă Universitară Politehnica Timișoara, commonly known as the SSU Politehnica Timișoara, Politehnica Timișoara, or simply Poli Timișoara, is a Romanian professional football club based in Timișoara, Timiș County (Romania) that competes in the Liga III (the third level of the Romanian football league system). Following the demolition of the Dan Păltinișanu Stadium now their home ground is the 2,600-capacity Știința Stadium in Timișoara.

‘Actual de Cluj.ro’ further stated that thousands of chairs have been dismantled. Also, the fans who want to keep the memory of the arena alive were given the opportunity to go home with a chair.

The National Investment Company (CNI) has taken on the mantle of constructing the largest stadium in Romania (in place of the Dan Păltinișanu Stadium) after the National Arena which will be able to accommodate 30,000 spectators. The CNI is chalking out the design and the construction plans of the new arena simultaneously with the demolition work which is underway. Tenders have already been floated and 87 companies from Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, and Turkey have thrown their hats into the tender ring to land the above 140 million euros venue project.

Bucharest (Romania)-based the National Investment Company (CNI), or the Compania Nationala de Investitii, is the largest public developer in Romania, a State-owned entity under the Romanian Government established in 2001. The company’s nub is large-scale infrastructure projects.

The 55,634-capacity National Arena is a retractable roof football stadium in Bucharest, Romania. It opened in 2011 on the site of the original National Stadium which was demolished between 2007 and 2008.

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