On 21 November, with a symbolic cutting of a metal bar and a performance of the song Dzelzsgriezējs by Ainars Virga, the newly built streets in the Liepāja Industrial Park, located on the former Liepājas Metalurgs factory site, were officially opened.
At the end of 2023, the Liepāja SEZ Authority attracted the first investments for the construction of the Liepāja Industrial Park and concluded an agreement with the Central Finance and Contracting Agency for EUR 10 million from Recovery Fund for the implementation of the project “Liepāja Industrial Park Infrastructure Development, Phase 1.” Within the project, electrical networks of 3,865 meters in length, eight new transformers, and three street sections with engineering communications (water supply, domestic sewerage, rainwater drainage, and district heating networks) are being built across the extensive territory.
Currently, sections of Inženieru Street, Eksporta Street, and Dzelzsgriezēja Street — approximately 2 km in total — have been completed. The total value of the completed construction works is EUR 9.23 million.
By the end of the year, Naglu Street and Martena Street will also be put into operation, and in 2026, the construction of a junction and road between Brīvības Street, Čuguna Street and Eksporta Street is planned. With the savings from the project, an additional 289-meter section of Martena Street will be built next year. A project application has also been approved for the “European Union Cohesion Policy Programme 2021–2027,” which will allow the dismantling of the fuel-oil tanks next year and the connection of the newly built streets into a unified network.
The Liepāja Industrial Park is being developed on the territory of the former “Liepājas metalurgs” factory, located between Brīvības Street, Meldru Street, Ezermalas Street, Parka Street and Zemnieku Street in Liepāja. It borders Lake Liepāja, a specially protected NATURA 2000 nature area. The territory is being developed into a modern business environment aimed at attracting technologically advanced and innovative companies that will promote the development of high value-added manufacturing and comply with the principles of the European Green Deal, supporting environmentally friendly, circular-economy-based industrial development.
In implementing the overall vision for the Liepāja Industrial Park, and in line with the approved strategy, the plan is to attract more than EUR 275 million in private investment and create at least 1,500 new jobs.
