Narek Sargsyan: implementation of Old Yerevan project will begin this fall and will last 3.5 years
ArmInfo.The implementation of Old Yerevan project will begin this fall and will last 3.5 years, during the budgetary hearings in Armenian NA stated Chairman of the
State Committee for Urban Development under the Government of Narek Sargsyan.
According to him, during the construction works Aram Manukyan's House
of the First Republic of Armenia will be saved. Besides, according
to Sargsyan, the old house of Africans will be restored, dismantled
from Teryan street.
Final project of Old Yerevan soon will be confirmed by State
Committee for Urban Development, Ministry of Culture and Yerevan's
Mayor's Office.
Old Yerevan will be built at the territory between the streets of
Abovyan, Buzand, Kohbatsi and Aram. The building is planned to be
built maximum with two underground floors, three over ground and
attic (in the style of so-called townhouses). It is also planned to
assemble old buildings (XIX - early XX centuries), which were
previously dismantled for elite high-rise buildings. Bricks from them
were numbered and stored up to better times. The project, estimated
at $ 120- $ 130 million, was approved in November 2014.