TENDER TO BE ANNOUNCED FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF A YEREVAN QUARTER

Armenpress
Mar 27 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 27, ARMENPRESS: The Yerevan municipality will announce
this week a tender for redevelopment of a quarter in downtown
Yerevan that will house about three dozens of old buildings which
are considered to be architectural monuments.

Part of these buildings, located originally in several central
Yerevan streets, were dismantled to give room for construction of
modern residential and business premises . They will be re-assembled
in the new quarter that will be called Old Yerevan.

Samvel Danielian, chief architect of Yerevan, said today they will be
re-assembled in line with a design developed by his subordinates that
preserves all major environmental features of a 19-century Yerevan
quarter. He said the area will not be residential and will comprise
museums, restaurants, snack bars, exhibition halls and underground
parking lots.