The citizens' initiative Chance for Centar, which won three council seats in the Council of the Municipality of Centar in the elections, commenting on start of construction on the residential and business complex in the parking lot opposite the Holiday Inn Hotel, expressed "huge revolt and criticism of the complicity of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Government and the Mayor of the Municipality of Centar in destroying the dignified living of the citizens of the Municipality."

From Chance to Center blame that all mentioned "together participate in creating a chaotic, dirty and inhumane space - a municipality and city without a future where everyone's health is a slogan behind which invests investment for the profit of the few", sharply criticizing the newly elected mayor of Centar Goran Gerasimovski.

"Dealing with urban chaos is not just an election slogan or planting flowers, but a real struggle!" "You betrayed the citizens in the first month after the elections and obviously you do not intend for uncompromising protection of our living space - nor for defiance and sanctions against all those who endanger and degrade our municipality," they say from Sansa for Centar.

Hence, they call on the Prosecutor's Office to "finally act on the complaint from the SCPC regarding the illegal adoption of the DUP."

"The Public Prosecutor's Office has not acted on the case for seven months - just as it tacitly approves the illegal construction at" Beko "in front of the Centar police station. "The public prosecutor's office should fight crime, not support it," said the citizens' initiative, adding that the mayor of the municipality of Centar must issue a temporary construction ban until the Public Prosecutor's Office clears the case. At the same time, he can return the paid utilities for this facility to the investor, which are still reserved on the account of the Municipality, with the exact purpose of being returned if necessary.

"All this is possible, but the real question is whether it is wanted!", Says the reaction from Shansa for Centar.

The company that is building the disputed project, MG Fashion, reacted to this.

"We want to inform the public that the construction permit is fully compliant with all legal norms in the country, and at the same time it is valid, as is the DUP on the basis of which it was issued. We ask the "Chance for Center" initiative not to tell lies to the public, for a completely legitimate legal procedure. "It is a procedure that was started many years ago and there are no legal inconsistencies in it," the company said.

"We remind you that MG Fashion has acquired the right of ownership by purchasing private property and completing a plot, ie purchase of state land from the Ministry of Transport and Communications in 2018, and the State Attorney's Office has issued a positive opinion on the purchase. According to the article in the Law on Urban Planning on which the initiative for suspension of the project was based, there should be proven undoubted damage to the public interest that was observed during the implementation of the plan and which would increase with its implementation. "Such damage has not been proven, and at the same time in this way the provisions of the law are abused for purposes that are contrary to the public interest and the rights of citizens." they add in the reaction.

MG Fashion says that "Grand Skopje" will be an urban and green complex with modern facilities and in the interest of all citizens, and that it will be "with 40% utilization of the maximum allowed urban parameters in the current DUP".

Residents of Novo Maalo, which is located next to the planned towers, also reacted to the announcement of the chance for Centar. Part of the inhabitants today they greeted him the beginning of the construction of the project and the announcement of compensation by the developer.

We, the residents of Novo Maalo, are extremely revolted by the actions of the advisory group "Chance for the Center" and Jana Belcheva who continue to manipulate the citizens of the Center. It is amazing how they continue to prevent us, the citizens of Novo Maalo, from exercising our rights, just as Belcheva is exercising her rights. "Belcheva, from the comfort of her home for political points, prevents us from having humane living conditions, but more frightening than that is that she hypocritically fights only against our buildings, while keeping silent about buildings that are of her personal interest," reads the statement sent to the media. .

"We call on them to immediately withdraw from the idea of ​​further blockades because with the start of construction of the project we, the residents of Novo Maalo, are fully solving the 50-year-old problems that generations of our families have failed to overcome." "We have had enough of mud life and unresolved basic communal problems in the middle of the city center," the statement added, signed only by "residents of Novo Maalo".