Mall construction site shut down

Mall construction site shut down

TANGERANG: The municipal public order agency has shut down the
construction site of the Metropolis shopping mall at the Modern
Land housing complex on Jl. Sudirman in Tangerang as the
developer failed to obtain a building permit from the
administration.

"They have been working on the site for a week, but the
developer has not applied to the municipal capital Investment and
Permit Office (KPKPM) for a permit yet," Agus R. Wahyudi, the
agency's chief of the public order affairs department, said on
Wednesday.

However, a staff member of the developer, PT Modernland
Realty, claimed that the company had received verbal
authorization from Tangerang Mayor M. Thamrin.

The source, who asked not to be named, said that the five-
story building with a total area of 46,000 square meters was
being funded by PT Lippo Karawaci.

All of the construction work is being carried out by
Modernland. However, Agus said that the agency would allow the
developer to proceed with the construction if it produced a
building permit issued by the administration.

"Verbal authorization, from whoever it was, cannot be accepted
as legal," he said.--JP