Valdemarsvik Spa Physical Therapy Clinic

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Valdemarsvik Spa Physical Therapy Clinic Physical Therapy Clinic – Valdemarsvik Spa 1 Visitors approaching Valdemarsvik are welcomed by Stellan Ekegren’s work of art, “Mariner”. 2 Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic Executive summary This is a unique opportunity to participate in the plans that the Municipality of Valde- marsvik has to develop this coastal community in the Swedish province of Östergöt- land into an attractive health and tourist resort with the necessary facilities and services to make guests and visitors feel welcome all year round. For an investor who is interested in contributing to the transformation of Valde- marsvik into Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic – in the first instance by in- vesting in a centrally located health resort facility – the municipal authorities are able to offer for sale a very attractive eight-hectare plot of land on the hill that rises some 40 metres or so above central Valdemarsvik. This provides the potential for various forms of rehabilitation as well as a restaurant and a hotel. From here there are also beautiful views out over Valdemarsviken Bay. The project has the support of the Municipality of Valdemarsvik and Östsam Re- gional Development Council, whose main objective is to promote the development of the Östergötland region. Valdemarsvik – in an expansive region The Municipality of Valdemarsvik has 7,852 inhabitants and lies in an area of outstand- ing natural beauty around Valdemarsviken Bay, an inlet of the Baltic Sea, on Sweden’s east coast. Each summer the place comes to life as guests from Sweden and abroad swell the population to around 28,000, attracted by all the opportunities to enjoy the natural grandeur of the area both down by the coast, on the islands of the archipelago and in the forests inland. The municipality is well served with good communications, with connections to rail and air traffic close at hand. This expansive region, the fourth largest in Sweden, has an impressive track re- cord across a broad spectrum of healthcare and medical services, not least thanks to a university hospital and a strong private healthcare sector. The current project is intended primarily, although not exclusively, for investors in Sweden’s near neighbour, Germany, whose long and successful traditions in the field have provided unique insights into and experience of sanitariums and health resorts. Physical Therapy Clinic – Valdemarsvik Spa 3 CONTENTS 5 Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic 6 Project concept with development potential 8 A central location means good levels of service 8 There is a need for new hotels 8 Spectacular building plot 9 Broad-based local support 9 Architect’s conceptual drawing 10 A project with regional and municipal support 12 The Swedish healthcare system and medical services 12 Organisation 12 Financing 13 Opportunities for foreign companies 14 Business climate in Östergötland 14 A growth region that attracts investment 14 Infrastructure and communications 14 Airports 14 Road and rail 15 Healthcare and medical services in Sweden and Östergötland 15 A wealth of competence 16 Sweden’s best training for doctors 16 Close cooperation between schools and companies 16 World-class research 17 Expanding private care sector 17 Strong high-tech industries 17 New Tools for Health – a regional forum for health products and services 18 Investments in tourism in Sweden 18 Five good reasons to invest 19 Valdemarsvik in Östergötland 19 Location and communications 19 Connections and flight times from some German cities (incl. transfers) 20 The travel and tourism industry in Östergötland 21 Interest from German tourists in Östergötland 21 Tourist destinations 22 The next step – Get in touch! 4 Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic The attractive coastal community of Valdemars- vik offers an ideal setting for recreation and out- door activities. There is strong support here for establishing a spa or rehabilitation facility. The village of Valdemarsvik, with 2,885 inhabitants, lies amid beautiful natural surroundings close to the sea and the Östergötland archipelago. This is one of the most pristine archipelagic environ- ments in Sweden, and for many people the area around Valdemarsvik, with groves of leafy trees in the inner sker- ries and bare slabs of rock further out towards the open sea, is the most attractive of all. Valdemarsvik is an old and historic part of the country. After Gusums Bruk foundry was established in the 1600s, the region gradually developed into an important centre for various types of industrial activity. Outside the main population centres, fishing and agriculture have traditionally been the main source of income for the local inhabitants. However, the process of structur- al change that has so fundamentally transformed industrial society has not left Valdemarsvik and its neighbouring communities unscathed. The foundry and many local industries and factories Physical Therapy Clinic – Valdemarsvik Spa 5 have closed down, and the emphasis in the region has shifted from being an industrial centre to becoming an attractive area for recreation and cultural ex- periences. Today the municipality as a whole has 7,852 permanent residents during the winter in an area of 739 square kilo- metres of land. This corresponds to a population density of 10.63 people per square kilometre, a low figure even for the south of Sweden, which bodes well for those eager to experience the free- dom and natural beauty of the great outdoors. In addition, the municipality also includes 42 sq.km. of inland water expanses and 1,277 sq.km. of coastal waters. Valdemarsvik comes to life during the summer months when the population is swelled by thousands of guests from Sweden and abroad. The statistics show that in summer the population can rise to approximately 28,000. Not sur- prisingly, most of the visitors are from Sweden, but German tourists come a Project concept with year round. Clean air, forests, the off- clear second, followed by visitors from development potential shore islands and good quality drinking the Netherlands in third place. Visitors This prospectus is an invitation to con- water already make Valdemarsvik a first- are attracted not only by the fresh air sider the proposal made by the Munici- rate alternative to other spas. The long- and the lure of the sea, but also by the pality of Valdemarsvik to develop Valde- term aim is to transform Valdemarsvik opportunities for all manner of leisure marsvik into an attractive health resort into a municipality that flourishes and activities in the extensive forests. and tourist resort with facilities that en- prospers on its reputation as a health re- able it to welcome guests and visitors all sort and a centre for tourism. The prospectus is aimed primarily at investors in Sweden’s near neighbour, Germany, whose long and successful traditions in the field have provided unique insights into and experience of sanitariums and health resorts. The vision is for Valdemarsvik to be included within the compass of the highly respected German spa culture, as part of a mutually ben- eficial venture: the actual health resort would be planned, financed and man- aged with funding from German investors, while the Municipality of Valde- marsvik would assume responsibility for making the land available for building, and for improvements to infrastructure and the central areas of Valdemarsvik. 6 Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic Map of central Valdemarsvik showing the proposed site for Valdemarsvik Spa – Physical Therapy Clinic. Physical Therapy Clinic – Valdemarsvik Spa 7 The prospectus shall not be construed initiative, choose to spend time at Val- hotels. At the time of writing, there are to imply that Swedish investors or inves- demarsvik Spa. Provided there is suffi- 64 beds in the area in the form of one tors from other EU member states are in cient capacity, tourists should also be of- hotel and one bed-and-breakfast facility any way excluded from participation in fered the opportunity to make use of the (in addition to private accommodation the project. Indeed, the participation of services offered and of the restaurants. of varying standard). The realisation of Swedish companies in the planning and the Valdemarsvik Spa project will make build-up stages would probably facili- A central location means the area highly attractive for further es- tate matters in many questions of detail. good levels of service tablishments. Similarly, responsibility for the actual It is proposed that the main facility be construction of the facilities may well be located centrally in Valdemarsvik, thus A spectacular building plot assigned to local contractors. However, providing easy access to services that do At present there is no existing building it is our opinion that Germany, with its not form part of the health resort’s own or facility in Valdemarsvik that would be long traditions and extensive experience core operations, such as shops, dispens- suitable for the planned health resort. in this field, is in the best position to ing chemists, library, etc. During Phase However, the Municipality of Valde- estimate how large the facilities should Two of the development, small special- marsvik is able to offer for sale a very be in order to be financially viable, how ist clinics may be established to serve as attractive plot of land, approximately the patients and guests should be ac- satellite facilities on the periphery of the eight hectares in size, in an area of pine commodated, and what other kinds of resort’s core operations. It is conceivable forest around Bergudden/Klippan, a operations are required to support and that an annexe for saltwater baths with a hill that rises some 40 metres above the complement a health resort of this type. seawater pool, massage booths and oth- centre of Valdemarsvik.

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