Budapest leadership to ask citizens’ opinion on Mini Dubai
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The Budapest municipal council will conduct an online survey on plans for a major property development project in the capital’s Rákosrendező area in the 14th district, the city’s mayor said on Thursday.
Gergely Karácsony told a press conference that the survey will be open to all Budapest residents over the age of 14 with a permanent address in the capital.
The Rákosrendező project in Budapest
He criticised the 5 billion euro rehabilitation project planned by UAE developer Eagle Hills as a “bad legal arrangement” that prioritised the interests of investors over the public interest. He said the same developer had carried out a project in Belgrade under a similar arrangement, which would be “remembered as a textbook example of botched urbanistic solutions”.
Budapest needs rustbelt zones where quality homes can be built in order to halt the decline of the city’s population, Karácsony said.
The municipal council agrees with the public developments linked to the project, such as the plan to extend the M1 metro line, he said, adding that the city disagreed with the way the government had selected the developer without a tender, thereby “allowing it to dictate the terms”.
No, please! It doesn’t fit in with the architecture, and the 1,100 years of history of this land. It’s a rape of the city, the modern monstrosity of these buildings. Never wished to visit the UAE, and not sure this would draw visitors. Selling out the people and this beautiful city.