The budget of Taiwan Smart Tower is getting higher and higher, but the floors are shrinking, and it is criticized as "no landmark pattern".

(Photo by reporter Su Mengjuan)

[Reporter Su Mengjuan/Taichung Report] The Taichung City Government plans to build the "Taiwan Smart Operation Tower". The council questioned the business today. It was planned to be a 42-story Taichung Smart Operation Center. The current mayor Lu Xiuyan took over and changed it to "Taiwan Smart Operation Tower". Not only has it been idling for almost 5 years since she took office, the budget has skyrocketed to over 10 billion, and the height of the building has shrunk to only 35 floors. The lower the building, "there is no landmark pattern"; Huang Guorong, deputy mayor of Taichung City, emphasized that the project will adopt BOT investment, including the height of the tower and the budget are determined by the investment company, and everything has not yet been determined.

He Wenhai pointed out that the Taiwan Tower planned by former mayor Hu Zhiqiang was 100 stories high, and in Lin Jialong's era, the "Taichung Smart Operation Center" was planned to be 42 floors. layer, but the construction expenses have been rising steadily, from the original 7.6 billion yuan to 10.3 billion yuan.

He Wenhai said that the budget for Taiwan's smart operating towers has skyrocketed, but the scale has shrunk, and 35-story buildings abound in Taichung.

He Wenhai also pointed out that the Economic and Development Bureau held a related public hearing in February, but this large-scale construction public hearing with a budget of more than 10 billion only invited 5 congressmen from Dixitun District to participate, and no other congressmen were invited. I was informed that the relevant bureaus of the city government, including Dufa, Guanlv, and Construction Bureau, only sent managers below the second level to participate, and no director attended. "Is this a sincere public hearing?"

He Wenhai pointed out that the city government will adopt BOT construction, but so far there is no incentive to attract manufacturers to invest, and the responsibility for construction is only shifted to the private sector. "Will it be delayed for another 4 years?"

Huang Guorong emphasized that Taiwan's smart operation tower will introduce private funds and creative bets on public construction in the form of BOT. The building height and budget mentioned by the councilors are just a rough planning description for a professional consulting company to conduct a feasibility assessment, but the actual building height and budget scale It depends on the amount of bets and plans that willing manufacturers are willing to invest in subsequent investment promotion, and everything has not yet been finalized; as for "landmarks", they may not necessarily be equated with heights. Like the Taichung National Opera House, the floor is not high, but it is indeed Taichung. The "landmark" of the city, the height will not be a problem of "landmark".