Source: Agromex GmbH & Co KGThe boom in luxury apartment blocks on the banks of the river Spree in east Berlin divide opinion. On June 22nd the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpernick voted to award planning permission to the project by property company Agromex. The project, set for completion in 2021, forms just the latest piece in the ever-expanding patchwork of high-end properties in what used to be a grimy industrial area. Green Party representatives in the Treptow-Köpernick council described the Agromex project "as money and delusions of grandeur," Tagesspiegel reports. Building work on the project is set to start in the second half of 2018.

Source: The Local June 29, 2017 09:11 UTC