July 17–The Tel Aviv Regional Planning and Building Commission today approved the plan to demolish the police station at 221A Dizengoff Street in north Tel Aviv, and build a residential and hotel complex on the site by its landowner, Israel Levy.
The plan calls for a seven-storey building with two wings, one residential with 35 apartments, and the other a 160-room hotel. At least 20 percent of the apartments will be small units, of up to 68 square meters of main space. The project will include a commercial ground floor facing Dizengoff Street.
The Dizengoff police station is the last police station in the heart of Tel Aviv. The station’s activity will be transferred to the Yiftach Division building on Salame Street in south Tel Aviv.
Local residents had opposed the residential and hotel project for years, mainly on the grounds that the lot was originally zoned for a public building, and was leased by the Israel Land Administration to a private individual for non-commercial use.
