Private companies will take over the Zoo for a crown – Sveriges Radio

It is about the whole Park Zoo and where also includes bath and camping. However, no land to be sold, but leased.

The municipality has signed long-term lease and require that it be used for the zoo. The municipality imposes some requirements on the company, inter alia, investments in the park.

They have agreed that the company can not distribute some of the funds available in the company during the first four years.

– I glance at Norrköping and Gävle, which made similar trips with good results, says Mayor Jimmy Jansson about the deal.

Mimir Capital said at the press conference that they want to focus on attracting more visitors to the park Zoo, including by broadening its activities, with more activities and by extending the season.

– There are plenty of ideas, but I want to return to. But if you look at Liseberg so has the activity throughout December, its Christmas market, says Henry Selenius from Mimir Capital.

Park Zoo will be reviewed by 1 September this year. But first decisions taken in the municipal government on 31/5 and then the city council will decide on a sale on 16 June. Not a completely painless process.

– It does not feel completely safe because the company does not have any own financial muscle but must rely on a German financier, says the Left Party group leader Maria Chergui.

During the winter and spring, a broker who Kommunföretag engaged has been in contact with several stakeholders to arrive at a suitable buyer and eventually stood between the two bids, where the other was from the Swedish culture pearls.

Sales of Parken Zoo made for economic reasons and the municipality hopes to Mimir Capital can make the investments that the municipality can not afford.

The question of Parken Zoo’s economy and whether the company will be owned by the municipality or has not been discussed for many years.

The bourgeois opposition has called for a sale of the park zoo in almost all elections since the early 90s. The Social Democrats have slowed, but opened the door a year ago.

Park Zoo has for many years been the multimillion losses.

In December 2014 came when new political majority, the Social Democrats, the Conservatives and the Centre Party, with the news that the municipality would try to sell the municipal park Zoo.

the goal from the beginning was that a deal would be completed by the end of the year, but the deal has been delayed. Until now.

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