Vörösmarty tér 1: gazdát cserélt az "agora"

Honfitársát választotta a fejlesztő ING Development, ugyanis a Redevco-nak adta el a Vörösmarty téren felépített 6200 négyzetméteres üzletközpontját. A vételár 44 millió euró volt, ami kifejezetten jónak mondható a mostani nyomott környezetben. A két cég még idén befejezi a tranzakciót. (ingatlanmenedzser.hu)

No, eladta az ING bank a Vörösmarty tér 1 szám alatti Kalitkát, más nevén Elizélt Palota II.-t, más nevén a Korrupció a Gyarmaton nevű épületet. Tudjátok, ez az a épület, ahol az etetési időszakban közterületi átriumot, belvárosi agorát hazudott az ING a kissé hiszékeny benszülötteknek, hogy aztán az V. kerületi önkormányzat elnézésével beépítse ruhabolttal. Így megy ez a gyarmaton, még a közterületet is lopják. Az épület hatalmas átriuma így értelmét veszítette, a ruházati boltok fölötti "agora" és "köztér" helyén Budapest legmagasabb belmagasságú étterme terpeszkedik. Itt valakit nagyon palira vettek, kedves nép. Az V. kerület amúgy is a pofátlan "ingatlanfejlesztők" játszótere, elég, ha a hazai Szy Sándort és a nemzetközi Csipak+Yuli csipet csapatot említem.

Talán itt az ideje felhívni a holland sajtó figyelmét az ING viselt ügyeire. Faragtunk egy mintalevelet, tessék szétküldözgetni. Ajánlott személy: Peter Rudolf de Vries, nagyon tökös holland tényfeltáró újságíró.

Dear Sir,


As bloggers concerned with city landscapes, we are approaching you in our battle against the most powerful bank in the world.


Please let us briefly outline the case. An office building was erected on the most expensive plot downtown Budapest in an ING bank investment, however, the actual building was built 0.5% over the original 5.5% plot ratio, as the building’s atrium was supposed to be a public area.


András Elekes, the company’s CEO in 2005 noted rather the opposite to ingatlanmerce.hu: „All this will embrace a glass atrium, which will be a public area within the building, thus opening the space towards Vörösmarty square. This will enlarge Vörösmarty square as well, as events – especially in the cold season – will be hosted here.”


Original plans may be found at the following links:


http://www.tabulas.hu/vigado/fooldal/3emelet.pdf


http://belvaros.blogspot.com/2009/01/vorosmarty-egy-irodahaz-budapest.html(video)


Greed and corruption have unfortunately prevailed, therefore there are now two stores operating on he ground floor instead of being a public area. We have tried to get the public area back to the local community but we hit the wall of cynicism and corruption at the city hall in charge of construction permits, even though a local representative supports our case. This came as no surprise to us however as this is the Hungary we know unfortunately. What came as a surprise, however, is the following message we received from the CEO of ING Real Estate Corporate George Jautze:


„According to local planning and building regulations a developer can obtain 0.5% density bonus on the floor area ratio if a predefined percentage of the building is designated as public area. Our first design allocated this 0.5% space in the atrium of the building in the ground and first floors. After consultation with the municipality the entire public area was consolidated in the first floor (with a moving staircase and an elevator for disabled visitors providing access). This consolidated space is more suitable to provide a coffee house, exhibition and event space functions, than the first design, and provides an all whether condition for its users. The modifications were approved by the local Municipality, and authorized by the legally valid building and use permit.”


Please find our posts dealing with this case at:


http://belvaros.blogspot.com/2009/02/vorosmarty-ter-ellopott-kozterulet.html


http://urbanista.blog.hu/2009/02/20/elloptak_a_vorosmarty_ter_egy_reszet_a_belvaros_blog_vendegposztja#more954162


http://belvaros.blogspot.com/2009/01/vorosmarty-ter-irodahaz-elizelt-palota.html


If this labyrinthine corruption case is of interest to you, we will try to help you with all we can, as we cannot assist to the theft of a public area and the the low-grading of this building.


Yours truthfully,


Bloggers Trurl and Klapanciusz