The international competition among major private-sector bidders to buy the site and the Dome would never have happened without the commission's investment.

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"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 private sector investment for a multi use all weather attraction to the site, " Mr Lewis added.

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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.

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However, the project will not go ahead until the current private-sector owners of the derelict power station and the neighbouring Nine Elms site are themselves ready to go ahead with a massive redevelopment of the site, which is expected to create 16, 000 new homes and provide a new location for the US embassy.

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As a result of the variety of actors represented (political decision makers, site managers, museum directors, local community representatives, the World Tourism Organization, the private sector, etc.), the seminar resulted in the creation of a detailed inventory of field experiences, shared best practices and identified constraints and challenges to tourism memory.

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