Greece starts clearing ground for Athens plan after long delay
Project aims to turn the Hellenikon airport, abandoned for nearly two decades, into one of Europe's biggest tourist resorts
Athens
GREECE started work clearing ground on Friday for a real estate project that plans to turn a disused airport on the Athens coast into one of Europe's biggest tourist resorts, three times the size of Monaco.
The former Hellenikon airport, a sprawling site of disused runways, terminals and venues used for the Athens 2004 Olympics, has been abandoned for almost two decades.
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