Giving with one hand...
EndpieceAmong the press releases that we are regularly sent are those informing us about the issuing of building permits. Hurrah! We now have this crucial document, we can start building. And the sooner we start, the sooner we can finish, lease and sell – exult the developers. But just wait a minute – I always think to myself – not so fast. After all, something could always happen...
Such a something has in the past been experienced by Orco Property Group and, recently, by Senatorska Investment, which plans to develop an office building on pl. Zamkowy in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. One journal reported that the head of the architecture department of the district authorities concerned failed to inform her superior about the close blood relationship between her and one of the architects who prepared the construction design of the project. When this cat was finally out of the bag, the mayor of the city, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, took the decision to restart the building permit issuing process for the project at ul. Podwale 1. The preparations and the consultations that had taken place over a number of years were not enough for the city to give the go-ahead for a building to be developed in such a form. And it’s not as if it is even going to be situated in the historic Old Town quarter, while the neighbouring Krakowskie Przedmieście royal avenue after it
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