The project has become a lightning rod amid a nationwide boom that has attracted international developers, including one Donald Trump - who until January had planned to back construction of the country’s two tallest towers.Īs rapid construction has taken hold in the capital, Tbilisians have watched green space shrink in the city center and the horizon crowd with towers. If all goes as planned, Panorama would bring three new hotels, two cable cars, 1,800 underground parking spaces, luxury residences and a convention center to the Georgian capital. No surprise, then, that not only is Ivanishvili behind the largest real estate development in Georgia’s history - a controversial project known as Panorama Tbilisi - until recently he owned some of the land slated for development. The Project That’s Transforming a Historic Baton Rouge Corridor Built by Enslaved People.How Immersive Oral Histories Can Shape The Future of Neighborhoods.How Oral Histories Can Spark Dialogue Across Communities.Solutions of the Year: A Next City Reporters Roundtable.He’s eccentric enough to dig up and ship a lone 650-ton tulip tree across the Black Sea, and his Tbilisi home is tailor-made for an evil mastermind: a 108,000-square-foot steel and glass palace, poised on a hill overlooking the city and complete with helipad and shark tank. His name appeared several times in the Panama Papers, a cache of leaked tax documents revealing how the world’s richest people exploit tax havens. A former prime minister and the founder of the ruling party, he’s also Georgia’s most powerful figure, infamous for pulling government strings from behind the scenes since leaving politics in late 2013. Worth about $5 billion, or a third of Georgia’s gross domestic product, he’s the country’s wealthiest person by a long shot. If you were looking to cast the villain in an urban development battle, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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