ArmInfo. The Municipality of Yerevan calls the statement of the Rutsog Invest holding regarding the redevelopment of the Kond quarter of the capital strange.
Today the Armenian office of this Russian holding issued a statement according to which the city authorities have not taken any effective steps to implement the Rutsog Invest program for the restructuring of Kond for two years, and also create obstacles through bureaucratically unreasonable restrictions. Meanwhile, in a conversation with ArmInfo, the press secretary of the mayor of Yerevan Hakob Karapetyan called this statement strange, since the Kond issue requires a multilateral approach and is being discussed by the community with the RA Government. It was emphasized that the Kond restructuring strategy is under discussion and that this process has not yet reached the stage of attracting investors. Karapetyan also recalled that earlier Rutsog Invest issued a statement regarding the restructuring of the Children's Railway, which was later refuted by the Yerevan Municipality.
Kond is one of the oldest historical districts in Yerevan. At the beginning of September this year, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan signed a decision to create a working group to coordinate the development of the historical town-planning environment and tourism infrastructures in Kond. According to Avinyan, the problems of urban development in this quarter will be discussed at the state level. A comprehensive study will also be carried out, including, among other things, historical, architectural and seismic aspects. The goal of the Kond redevelopment concept is to preserve the historical and urban environment, which will positively affect, among other things, the activation of tourism and the creation of new jobs.