Bole Fana Consumers Public Recreation Center demolished after 50 years in service











Bole Fana Consumers Public Recreation Center demolished after 50 years in service

Addis Insight confirmed that the Bole Fana Consumers Association, which has been providing services to the community for the past 50 years, has been dissolved.

It is not to be forgotten that when the unions were told about the demolition of this public entertainment center in the past, they were in tension with the district.

This association, which has more than 4,500 members, is managing other entertainment centers from this center.

The recreation center housed tennis courts and wedding halls, and the 17/19 recreation center alone had 207 employees.

Fana Park, where various events including music concerts are held, is managed under the 17/23 Entertainment Centre.

The land development and management office of Bole district, where the centers are located, announced in a letter to Bole Fana Shemach, who manages the parks, that the Addis Ababa city administration cabinet had requested the land on March 17, 2014.

Addis Ababa city administration in Bole Sub-city has announced that it wants to give the 17/19 and 17/23 entertainment centers land, mall, apartment, as well as the construction of a five-star hotel to investors.

According to the letter, of the two entertainment centers, the land is said to be wanted for a mall and apartments to be built by MWS Trading, as well as a five-star hotel to be built in Bekele, Gesena, Abebe.

The members of the association said that they have the capacity to develop the place if it is necessary to develop it, and they said that destroying a center that is a place for people’s breathing is not thinking about the people.

Addis Insight visited the site and confirmed that the shops that were built in front of Bole Shemach Entertainment Center and the halls that were used to provide services to the public are being demolished.

Repeated attempts to contact the officials of the three land development and management offices of Bole district,could not succeed.