Trees Get the Axe: High-Rise Going Up in Yerevan=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Nork District

12:45, April 20, 2015

Residents of Nork Street 7 called Hetq today complaining that a large swath of trees have been cut down to make way for a high-rise residential building. 

Tigran Azizyan told Hetq that while he cut down trees during the "dark and cold" days of the early 1990s, some trees were left standing. 

"There were 30-40 year old trees, big mulberry trees. Residents then planted some more. But in one day they cut them all down. Then, they posed a sign and we learnt that a high-rise building is to be constructed there," says Azizyan. 

He contacted the State Property Cadastre and was informed that the land now belonged to Hagop Lousararyan.   Read more... (210 words)

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