In the coming months, Plovdiv's cityscape could see some changes. Plans for an international bus station have been approved, but planned renovations to the city's stadium are at a standstill.

A project for an international bus station has been approved by the city's committee for municipal transport, with the committee going on to recommend the preparation of a tender document for the facility's construction. City hall said this in a press release on March 12 2009, citing Plovdiv's deputy mayor for economics, Alexander Konstantinov, who is also chairman of the committee.

A plot of land in the central Bulgarian city's Trakiya borough has been designated for the bus station, though the exact size has not yet been decided. Such would be stated in the tender document, Konstantinov said.

This plot, which has a total size of 19 decares, is in proximity to the railway station in the same neighbourhood, where it has direct access to the ring road Tsar Simeon Boulevard, to Tsarigradsko Chaussee and to Assenovgradsko Chaussee. Tsar Simeon Boulevard leads directly to Sofia via Trakiya Highway. All this comes together to form an ideal location for access of both personal vehicles and public transport.

A bus line from Plovdiv's international bus station to the city's airport is also planned for when renovation of the airport is completed. The new bus station will also centralise bus travel, which departs, at the moment, from various points in the city based on final destination.

A day before the announcement of the bus station, Plovdiv's deputy mayor for municipal property, Petko Atanasov, said that the concession of Todor Diev Stadium, also known as Spartak Stadium, could be terminated if the stadium's concessionaire did not file a new plan for the facility's maintenance and future upgrades.

Atanasov said that, in the meeting between city hall and the company that manages the stadium that was held in late 2008, both parties had agreed that the concessionaire would file a new plan. Put forth by the concessionaire, the new plan was to realise enlargements to the stadium's seating capacity.

"It's already been three months, and we're still waiting for them to do something," Atanasov said. "Personally, I am at a loss and believe that the concessionaire, clearly, does not have sufficient potential to make good on the concession. That is why they're not doing anything and are trying to throw the problem at elsewhere. If that is the case, Plovdiv will terminate the concession contract."
In the coming months, Plovdiv's city layout could see some changes.