The authorities of New York forbade Abramovich to erect megaeennia in the Upper East Side

The Commission for the Protection of Monuments of New York architecture refused Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in the unification of three of his houses in the Upper East Side in a single mega-ownership. According to the New York Yimby, the commission considered that such a reconstruction "destroy a significant part of the story", calling it a "new level of glaring consumption."

The plan proposed by representatives of the Russian billionaire was not supported by any of the members of the commission. Its participants agreed that perestroika would lead to "unjustified destruction and the predominance of monotony over authenticity."

According to Kelly Carroll, representing the Council of Historical Regions, "when a person" buys history ", we are talking not only about dollars and centers." “It is also necessary to meaningful strategic management, and this proposal is anything, but not to them,” she said.

The historical heritage at Columbia University, Andrew Plokart, emphasized that the potential statement of the project "would create a terrible precedent."

In early March, according to RBC, the unit of the houses of the construction of New York refused to unite the houses of the houses. Then the project architect Stephen Wang noted that the refusal does not mean that the reconstruction will not be implemented.

Abramovich acquired five -story houses located in the neighborhood separately, in October and December 2014 and in July 2015, a total of $ 78 million. The businessman, whose condition, according to Forbes, is $ 7.8 billion, planned to create a single mansion with the pool in the basement, greenhouses and a courtyard. The costs of this project were estimated at 6 million dollars.