The Cesis City Council has prepared an informative material on pieces of land belonging to municipality and has announced tender of investment attraction for several pieces of land. These pieces of land are located in the city areas, where production, construction of commercial and public objects and low residential buildings are provided.

Cesis is one of the most ancient cities of Latvia and historically has been established as a center of the Vidzeme. Currently there are 19 000 citizens and Cesis is the second largest city in the Vidzeme planning region. Geographically Cesis is located 87 km from Riga, between two significant transport corridors - Riga - Veclaicene and Incukalns - Valmiera.

Cesis is rich of nature and cultural heritage. Thus, the most typical types of entrepreneurship are: light industry, tourism, information technologies and rendering of services. Basing on Cesis City development plan, tourism, wood-processing, food-processing and IT will be the prior tendencies of entrepreneurship in the city in the future as well. Currently, the largest enterprises of Cesis city are a brewery, a honey processing plant, a meat processing plant, bakeries, a printing house, a drinking water processing plant, a market garden, different companies rendering tourism services, providers of transport services and a reference and information centre. There are 30 enterprises per 1000 citizens of the Cesis city, and it is a quite high rate in comparison to the average situation in Latvia. To promote the development of economic environment and entrepreneurship in the city, the Cesis City Council has gathered information on investment territories and offers them to the interested persons.

There are several pieces of land in the Cesis city belonging to the municipality and individuals, however, they are not managed. During organization of sustainable development of these territories, the Cesis City Council has decided to attract investors (physical and legal entities), which are interested in expanding or starting their entrepreneurship directly in Cesis. The informative material is prepared on pieces of land belonging to the municipality, and a proposal is announced for investment attraction for several pieces of land. These pieces of land are located in the city areas, where production, construction of commercial and public objects and low residential buildings are provided.

Thus, the Cesis City Council calls all the interested persons to submit their investment proposals for development of these pieces of land to the Council. Proposals of development projects for each piece of land have to be submitted to the Cesis City Council in written form of maximum two A4 sheets by 2 June 2006. The following aspects should be included in description: objectives of the project, amount of planned investments and terms of execution, project compliance with the Cesis City Development Plan and Territory Layout and other aspects specified in the call.

Full information on call of pieces of land for investments is available on the Cesis city web page: www.cesis.lv, section “Investment territories”. There is general information on each piece of land, on its location and a map specifying availability of utilities for each piece of land.

Additional information is available at the Cesis City Council, Development Planning Department, Raunas street 4, Cesis, Room No 300, phone: 4124702.