Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has viewed construction at Mush-2 quarter in Gyumri, where housing ins constructed for citizens stricken by the Spitaksky flood in 1988, ARKA reports.
The The State Purchase Agency and Glendale Hills signed a deal in 2008. The company was to build 2300 apartments for 38.9 billion drams. Changes in the project allowed to build 2812 apartments without exceeding the sum. Glendale Hills has already constructed 1056 apartments.
Director General of the company Vage Almoyan said that they are currently at the second construction stage. It includes construction of 33 houses with a total of 1544 apartments at the Mush-2 quarter and 5 houses with 212 apartments at Ani quarter.
The third stage will be concluded in 2012. 1500 apartments will be built at 24 village communities in Lori District.
The housing program received a total of some 65 billion drams. The Ministry of Urban Planning has over 6,900 families in need for housing after the earthquake.
Armenia had its most disastrous earthquake on December 7, 1988. Spitak and Leninakan (Gyumri) received major damage, as well as over a hundred villages. Several cities were partly destroyed.
The earthquake center was in Spitak, where its magnitude reached 10 points on Richter scale. 25,000 people died and 140,000 became handicapped. Over half a million citizens lost housing.
