North Avenue
The first phase of auctions for identifying developers of land plots in the neighborhood of North Avenue, held by the company Harutiunian & Associates Law Office under the appointment of the Yerevan City Municipality, has successfully completed with the following winning bids: 

Plot 1 - 1400 sq.m., USD650/sq.m. 
Plot 2 - 1400 sq.m., USD531/sq.m. 
Plot 3 - 1300 sq.m., USD180/sq.m. 
Plot 4 - 600 sq.m., USD400/sq.m. 
For the land Plot plan click here.

The company is currently starting the second phase, and the next auction has been announced for March 29, 2002, for the land plot number 6 with a floor area of approximately 1300 sq.m. Being adjacent to Tumanyan and Teryan streets, this land plot has a prime location with a great view on the Opera House and the Swan Lake.

The North Avenue project is the most significant urban development undertaking in the capital of Armenia over the last decades. Strategically located in the hearth of the City, North Avenue is planned to be a 400 meters long and 24 meters wide pedestrian avenue connecting two most significant centers of the Yerevan downtown -- the Opera House and the Republic Square. Being on the same axis with the Monument and Cascade, Opera House and Tigran Mets Avenue and pointed to the Ararat Mountain, North Avenue promises to become the real pearl of Yerevan. 

Should you require any further information in connection with this auction or possible interest in future initiatives related to the North Avenue Project, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Harutiunian & Associates Law Office
Tekeyan Center, 4th floor
50 Khanjian Str.
Yerevan 375001, Armenia
Tel.: +374 1 5595-01, -02
Fax: +374 1 5595-03
e-Fax U.S.: +1 (425) 675-2950

North Avenue - part of architect Alexander Tamanian's original plan for Yerevan - will connect Opera Square and the main Republic Square. City authorities want to clear 50,000 square meters of space for the project.

When finished, it will be a 24-meter wide pedestrian street lined with two-story buildings housing restaurants, shops, and offices.

Although the municipal authorities are organizing the project, it is being financed through the market. The rights to commercial lots have been sold at auction to pay for the construction.

Armen Arakelian, deputy director of the North Avenue project, says businesses have paid $600 per square meter to reserve their spaces. Once completed, the retail and business spaces will be sold to cover the remaining cost of the scheme. 


Click the map for a larger view.

The process of downtown renovation has already marked its startup. Tumanyan str, Feb 4, 2002

Construction site on Tumanyan ave., Feb 4, 2002

Here will pass the Northern avenue, Feb 4, 2002

Some parts of the houses are not destroyed yet, Feb 4, 2002

Here the it will cross the Yeznik Koghbatsi street, Feb 4, 2002

... and this one will be destroyed too, Yeznik koghbatsi str., Feb 4, 2002

These houses on Pushkin street will be destroyed as well, Feb 4, 2002

... they are already empty... Pushkin str., Feb 4, 2002

The avenue will cross the Pushkin street here, Feb 4, 2002

And here it will go out on Abovyan street, Feb 4, 2002

These houses on Abovyan street are also to be destroyed, Feb 4 2002

The Kara-Bala statue too...

And here is the other end of the avenue, Arami street, Feb 4 2002


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