The international competition among major private-sector bidders to buy the site and the Dome would never have happened without the commission's investment.
"The work on Nell's Point is the first phase response to bringing the site back into use but the real ambition here it to attract privatesector investment for a multi use all weather attraction to the site, " Mr Lewis added.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.