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Buildings
The Fix Factory
The Demolishment
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We wonder whether it is really pure chance that the events leading to the demolition of the Fix Factory duplicate those leading to the demolition of the Tower of Rizoupolis. |
The factory ceased operations in 1983 when it was racked by problems and "passed" into the hands of the State-run Organisation for the Restructuring of Enterprises. From there it passed to the National Bank, which made many attempts to auction it off. Eventually, the Municipality, under Leonidas Kouris {Λεωνίδας Κουρής}, bought it shortly before the 1994 municipal elections. In the end the Ministry of Culture listed it for preservation ...half of it that is. Then "slices" started to be carved off as sections were demolished every now and then. The 1999 earthquake delivered the final blow.
The Fix Factory. The 1999 earthquake delivered the final blow.
Mayor Dimitrios Avramopoulos {Δημήτριος Αβραμόπουλος} "went into action" in the summer of 2000 and inflicted the fatal injury. With the consent of the Ministry of Culture, the building was struck off the preservation list and in mid March 2002 Mr. Mayor obliterated one of the last vestiges of the recent history of Patision {Πατησίων} street.
Web page editors' note: It is worth noting that the Mayor of the Municipality of Athens, Mr. Dimitrios Avramopoulos, was the founder of a political party which went by the name of "Free Citizens' Movement". The party was founded and disbanded without ever taking part in an election. In the General Election of 2004 (March) Mr. Avramopoulos was a candidate for the New Democracy Party. When that party won the election, he was appointed Minister of Tourism, an office he still holds. |
The Fix Factory. In mid March 2002 one of the last vestiges of the recent history of Patision Street disappeared for ever.
Do not be surprised then if one fine day you notice the emergence of an underground car park with a shopping center above and nice wide sidewalks, subsidised, of course, by a corresponding increase in building co-efficients.
05-15-2002