Abnoudy
10-7-2009
Lead in: Back in the 50s the Egyptian downtown was tahrir square and the area surrounding it. Now it became a very chaotic and crowded place. Naguib Saweeris, a very successful Egyptian business man, now has a plan for re-constructing that area. AUC news’ Aya El Abnoudy reports.
(choas of the cars Nat sound)
Nagiub saweeris has a plan of re-constructing downtown Egypt from what it is nowadays which is a very crowded and messy place into a closed partition with no cars passing through and designer stores all over the place.
Not only that, Saweeris’s plan is to put cafes in the street for both foreigners and Egyptians to enjoy their coffee or food while sitting in this historical place without feeling frustrated from the chaos of the cars in Egypt.
As a plan such an idea it is very intriguing to tourism says Figen Kocaman a Turkish tourist visiting Egypt for the first time:
Kocaman: “that would be really an interesting idea because like most of us like to relax at night we don’t like to stay at the hotel or do something so in that case we could go out and do something so we could go like go out enjoy the beautiful scenery in the street instead of like watching cars in the street. We could enjoy good drink or coffee or maybe dinner. And I think this supports tourism in a lot of things it would be much more fun and entertaining for other people instead of going to the malls or just sitting in a café. It would be really a very nice touch“. (:40)
On the other hand, people owing places there have a big problem with that innovation as it will affect the customers for the time that the downtown will be reconstructed as Tarek el Marsafy the manager of “After eight” a bar located there stated.
Marsafy: “ I think that the project is not very useful for me because as you can notice from the Egyptian society reconstruction takes a very big time, and this will cause loss to my company as a general manager and I am not sure for either circulation people may not be easily circulated around the building so they will not have accesses to the inside and that might bring difficult consequences and loss to my company and for the parking this is not useful for the people to come which makes another disadvantage for me. I am not as well sure if this is a good project or not so circumstances should be considered when reconstruction this part again”
Opinions are very paradoxical many are against and many are fore. This issue is causing so many conflicts not only in the downtown region but in the whole city. The owners of the shop’s destiny are now dependant on whether this plan will be accomplished right or not.
Aya El Abnoudy, AUC News.
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