Houses are to be built in an area secured for senior government officials to live when they retire. The residential villas will be transferred to the president, the prime minister and the deputy prime ministers, The Reporter has learnt.
Citing its role as a "symbol of resurgence," a panel declared Tuesday that New York's One World Trade Center will be the tallest US skyscraper once it is completed, topping the former Sears Tower in Chicago.
The Addis Ababa City Administration Construction and Housing Development Bureau said it has completed preparations to finalize construction of condominium houses started and to begin construction of more 50 thousand houses.
Residents and business owners who rented apartments in the nine-story building located opposite St. Stephen’s Church around Meskel square are to appeal to the Prime Minister’s Office over what they describe as an excessive rent increase.
President Dr. Mulatu Teshome has urged the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) to begin the construction of the 16- storey multipurpose building whose construction lags behind schedule.
