ArmInfo
The Armenian moneybags are ready to destroy one more park in Yerevan.
Member of the "We are the Owners of Our City" group Mariam Sukhudyan says that the park situated between Mashtots Avenue and Saryan Street may be turned into one more construction site.
"They are planning to build a cafe, a hotel and an underground parking lot there and are claiming that they are improving the territory. It has become a "good" tradition to seize green areas under the guise of improvement," says Sukhudyan.
She says that earlier the Municipality permitted the construction of cafes in the Students Garden claiming that the new buildings would go well with the Viktor Hambartsumyan monument. As a result, they built monumental concrete structures instead of one-storied cafes and illegally cut lots of trees so as to clear area for the buildings.
"Our group is ready to fight for saving the park but the local residents should actively support us. Only by joint effort will we be able to prevent the park from being turned into a concrete zone," says Sukhudyan.
July 23, 2010