What next?
Despite the protests, few people believe that the project will be stopped. In fact, many in Belgrade assume that the project will fail because everything does in the city. The land the hotels and malls are being built on is hilly, not the flat land of Dubai and the rest, so the structures will inevitably be compromised. The only tower built to date has already begun sinking into the quicksoil.
The development is expected to take decades to complete, and it isn’t going to be used when it is finished. The average salary in Belgrade at the moment is less than £400, meaning million-dollar apartments and gourmet restaurants are going to be outside the spending capabilities of Belgrade’s two million people.
The Belgrade Waterfront is going to be little more than a playground for the super-rich, a development that nobody wants that will do nothing other than make a few people in power a little bit richer. As many locals have said, the simple fact is that Eagle Hills showed up with a briefcase of money and the Serbian government gave them free reign to do as they please. The Serbian people may not be so forgiving.
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Publish date : 2024-01-16 08:00:00
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