Mayor calls for Cathedral Plaza harikiri

GENERAL BERTHELOT Bucharest mayor Sorin Oprescu has asked Millennium Building to tear down the Cathedral Plaza office building on Strada General Berthelot

November 2009 - From the Print Edition

For three years the building has stood as an 18-floor steel frame overlooking the city, as court cases have prevented any further development.
The City Hall has sued Millennium Building, the owner of Cathedral Plaza. The authorities want to annul the company’s right to the land plot because its construction permit expired last summer, before the project was delivered.
The Cathedral Plaza project is an A class office building with 18 floors and five underground levels and has a total built area of 25,671 sqm.
The constructions began in March 2006 and were stopped in April 2006, following an appeal by the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Bucharest, which is in the shadow of the development.
The works on the building were allowed to resume last July after Ploiesti Appeal Court approved the appeals forwarded by the investor Millennium Building Development against the sentence of the Dambovita Law Court, which had originally annulled the construction permit.