Historical Headaches
Developers are bringing historic
buildings back to life.
GAL1T LIPKIS BECK SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
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n a country with immediate
housing needs for young cou-
ples and immigrants, pre-
serving historic buildings
might not seem like a top prior-
ity. Unlike renovating ordinary
\— old buildings, which requires get-
ting rid of rot on the walls and re-
pairing foundations, preserving
a historic building in Israel in-
cludes all this plus a lot of atten-
tion to the original's details.
Yet, despite the high cost of re-
newing historic buildings and the
many headaches involved, such
\_, projects tend to reap higher re-
(---- turns than newer buildings in the
same area.
Eyal Liberman, general man-
Galit Lipkis Beck writes for the
Jerusalem Post.
ager of the Colonnade House de-
velopment in Tel Aviv, says the
cost of preserving and enlarging
an historic building can reach up
to twice the cost of building a sim-
ilar-sized new building. He says
construction of one square meter
costs about $1,100, not including
the value-added tax, about twice
as much as building an apart-
ment block in Hadera.
Zipha International is in the
process of preserving and reno-
vating Colonnade House, an im-
pressive building situated in the
Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood,
around the corner from the
Carmel Market.
Colonnade House was con-
structed in 1925-1927. The three-
story building, designed by
architect Yehuda Megidovich, Tel
Aviv's first town engineer, con-
sists of six apartments contain-
ing 28 rooms, with large
balconies and mosaic floors.
Zipha International plans to
add a fourth floor to the original
building and construct a seven-
story apartment
block behind it.
The developers
plan to restore the
exterior walls but
redesign the inte-
rior rooms. The en-
tire project will
have 50 apart-
ments, including
studio apartments,
two-room apart-
ments, three-room
apartments and
duplex and pent-
house apartments.
Upon comple-
tion the complex will include un-
derground parking, a swimming
pool, door man and laundry fa-
cilities.
So far, the buyers include
many artists and journalists.
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Other places where historic
preservation has taken hold and
pushed up housing prices in-
clude the German quarter in
Haifa and older sections in Ram-
le and Jaffa.
The Tel Aviv Municipality
hopes to preserve 1,500 build-
ings in the coming years. While
the city is determined to go
ahead with the program,
progress is dependent on the
building owners who, like in oth-
er cities, carry all of the finan-
cial burden of the renovation
work.
To give the developers some
incentive, Tel Aviv Municipali-
ty is usually flexible in approv-
ing developers' requests to
increase building space above
the standard percentage. For ex-
ample, real estate developer Al-
fred Akirov is constructing a
high-rise office building on
Sderot Rothschild in Tel Aviv.
The municipality approved his
request to increase the building
area on condition that the adja-
cent Russian church is renovat-
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Shiva are two historic neighbor-
hoods that have undergone major
face-lifts, turning unlivable envi-
rons into stunning enclaves that
attract the well-to-do. Tel Aviv's
Neveh Tzedek neighborhood is the
city's oldest quarter, with build-
ings from the early
1900s. It is home to
the Suzanne Dellal
Theater and offers
magnificently recre-
ated homes which
often still have as
yet unrefurbished
neighbors.
The Nahalat Shi-
va neighborhood in
Jerusalem, with its
coffee houses, ce-
ramic shops and
boutiques, features
remodeled apart-
ments. Thanks to
the efforts of former Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek, the neigh-
borhood, established in 1869 and
slated for demolition since the
time of the British Mandate, was
remodeled.
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