Published Thursday, 24 November 2011
Around 450 jobs are expected to be created over the next two years when work gets underway on the Three Rivers project, with developers hopeful work can begin before the end of 2012.
The £50m development, which will be built on a 50 acre site close to the banks of the River Foyle, will include an employment park, a wildlife centre, a sports facility and a hotel.
The project will also include a new footbridge linking Lifford with Strabane.
West Tyrone MP Pat Doherty said the funds for the project have come from private investors.
"All of this is private money", Mr Doherty said.
"The projection is that in the first year there will be 450 jobs and that would build up over a three year period, and that is the key because Strabane is an unemployment black spot.
"We have been working with these developers - both the local and wider grouping of people -to interest them in Strabane and to tackle this long and deeply-seated problem in Strabane of unemployment."