Apartments to be built on college land

The Local Planning and Construction Committee has decided to allow 450 residential apartments to be built on land belonging to the Seminar Hakibbutzim teachers' training college on Derech Namir, reports Yediot Tel Aviv. But the committee rejected a suggestion to move the college to south Tel Aviv and create an additional 100 apartments on the entire plot of land.

According to the report, the college occupies only about 20 percent of its 50,000 square meters of land, and several years ago college managers agreed to allow the unoccupied land to be used for other purposes, on the condition that the builders would also tear down the rundown old college buildings and rebuild them. Now the committee has given its approval for three 27-storey residential towers, containing a total of 450 apartments, to be constructed on the site.