New Holland Island competition to be announced late summer.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -- A new competition to choose a
project for the development of St. Petersburg's historic and architectural
complex of the XXVIII century - the New Holland - will be announced in
late August - early September, the city's Deputy Mayor Yuri Molchanov said.
The New Holland territory will become legally the property of the
city, and then the competition will be announced, he said.
"We know about several big groups interested in the project and we
hope that the competition will see some interesting ideas," he said.
Due to the financial state of an investor, St. Petersburg had to
reject the project by Norman Foster, which had been chosen over the
competition of February 2006.
The New Holland area is a triangular island where a 19th century depot
and gallery to dry wood logs to be used for ship construction was located.
The depot has fallen out of use and constitutes an interesting urban
industrial archaeology site. The city decided to rehabilitate the area for
public use.