SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – The 49-story Torre de Manila condominium project in the Philippines’ capital has been so controversial that it has reached the Supreme Court which will have to decide on the fate of this infrastructure development.
The controversy is based on the fact that the building, when completed, will provide an ugly and inapprorpriate backdrop to the nation’s premier monument at Manila’s Luneta Park featuring its national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.
Lawmakers on Tuesday urged property developer D.M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI) to voluntarily demolish the controversial building rather than wait for the Supreme Court to issue a final ruling on the matter.
Realizing that it has nothing but a losing case on its side, DMCI has finally agreed to abandon the project and demolish the building.
DMCI has come to the decision after it received confirmation from San Francisco that the City by the Bay has approved its application to build a similar project near the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee informed DMCI that the condominium project will help ease the American city’s housing shortage and uncontrollable skyrocketing of apartment rent.
Lee said that after seeing an artist’s rendition of how the condominium project will look like as a backdrop to the Golden Gate Bridge, he decided it would be great fit to San Francisco’s image and skyline.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – The City and County of San Francisco is trying its best to rid itself of the reputation of being one of the places in the U.S. with the most expensive rent, what with the monthly apartment rent averaging in excess of $4,000.
As more and more high-rise condominiums are springing up everywhere in the city, Mayor Ed Lee and the County Board of Supervisors announced the building of a new, 13-story complex at the former location of McDonald’s on 600 Van Ness Avenue (@Golden Gate) which recently closed its doors after more than three decades of operation.
Lee said that this is just the beginning of a 10-year strategic development plan to ease the critical housing shortage and sky-rocketing rents in the city.
Unlike other government housing projects, the proposed high-rise will be rent-free for those who qualify.
Among other criteria, future residents of the new building will have to be convicted of a crime committed in San Francisco.
The multi-million high-rise project is a county jail.
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