PROGRAM OF MOVING RESIDENTS OF 4TH-DEGREE ACCIDENT-PRONE BUILDINGS TO NEW APARTMENTS COMPLETED
Noyan Tapan
Dec 17, 2008
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The residents of two newly-built
10-story apartment buildings on 14th Street in Yerevan’s Kanaker
district had their house-warming party with the participation of
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan on December 17. They had been moved
to their new apartments from 4-degree accident-prone buildings in
Ajapniak community.
According to information of Yerevan municipality, under the Armenian
government’s decision No 682 of October 25, 2005, the issues of moving
the residents of accident-prone buildings subject to demolition
in Yerevan were regulated, and the order of their demolition was
decided. In pursuance of the government decision of December 20,
2007, Yerevan municipality made a decision to allocate a land plot
adjacent to the above mentioned streets and Tbilisi Hayway to Yerevan
Development Investment Program Implementation Office state non-profit
organization for construction of two buildings. The design estimate
work was done by Yerrepairproject CJSC, the winner of the respective
tender, while construction work was done by Yerevan House-Building
Enterprise CJSC. The total usable area of two buildings is 8,784 suare
meters, there are 100 apartments. The interior design work has been
completed, the internal and outdoor communications have been installed.
The total cost of the buildings’ construction and improvement of the
adjacent area made 1.5 billion drams (about 5 million USD).
As Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakarian said at the house-warming ceremony,
543 families of 4th-degree accident-prone buildings in Ajapniak
community were moved to 9 newly-built apartment buildings in recent
years, by which the respective program was completed. He announced
that it is also envisaged to construct new buildings with a total
of 227 apartments for residents of three 4th-degree accident-prone
dormitories in Yerevan. Half of this state budget-financed program
will be implemented in 2009, while the other half in 2010.