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Originally Posted by Chirimoya
If this is the building near the corner with Maximo Gomez, it has a serious structural defect that forced a halt to construction, but the authorities still haven't forced the developer to demolish it. It has been there for years, a monument to incompetence.
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The developers are actually selling the parcel with the half-built tower. Hm... I wonder why it has had a hard time selling?
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Originally Posted by Chirimoya
The Malecon was named after Washington along with several other main avenues in the capital named after historic world leaders (Churchill, JFK, Lincoln, de Gaulle, etc). This, I believe, was an attempt by then dictator Trujillo to curry favour with the rest of the world.
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Trujillo didn't went around naming places in the DR to curry favor with anyone, he did that by doing other things.
Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and even JFK avenues did not exist during the Trujillo era. The avenues of the capital had names of his family members and many of the newer avenues (Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, etc) were built after the era of Trujillo ended, most by Balaguer. In fact, most of the main avenues were built by Balaguer, including the 27 de Febrero which in the 1970s actually looked like an avenue and not as the highway/avenue mix it is today.
Regarding the name of American heroes on the capital's avenues, it was done to show appreciation for the U.S. involvement in eliminating Trujillo and putting the country back on the path towards democracy.
The naming of the other avenues with heroes from other countries was done by Balaguer as he built and inagurated such avenues.
-NALs