in Kuopio we are giving up the idea to build a central field for a big event arena.

the City has a planned 8 000 -seater stadium, which could be to arrange football matches in addition, for example concerts. Such arena’s construction would cost about eur 20 million.

the mayor Jarmo Pirhonen according to this big project is not now the economic conditions. Locked in now, he says, is smaller, 4 500-6 000 places included in a football stadium, the price of which was eur 10 million or less.

– is it still the right size, Pirhonen says.

A smaller stadium has been city’s plans already.

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