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05/07/2021 9:46 pm
this is truly odd !!!.....on the plus side,it might lessen your guilt over any uncompleted projects you never managed to get back to
06/07/2021 3:04 am
That was interesting. Glad I watched it and thnx for posting it JB.
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06/07/2021 3:23 am
extraordinary! Imagine what it would be like on a dark and stormy night? thanks John.
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06/07/2021 6:30 am
I can`t help but imagine the immense fleet of cement/concrete trucks that must have been involved in the "pour" phase.......or how many cranes were on site for setting spires and the like..............I noticed just now,the massive parking garage.......wonder if future residents commuted to the garage on golf carts or just how they got around given the lack of on-street parking
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06/07/2021 9:48 am
Some of those (houses?) were actually purchased for $400,000 each. All were identical and were intended to stay that way forever. I can see one person with a skewed vision and too much money making a colossal error like that, but a group of many investors with the same vision? Makes no sense.
I'm guessing there might have been some sort of religious connotation to it.
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06/07/2021 1:34 pm
Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre,.....have I made my point ?
06/07/2021 4:01 pm
This is located near the Black Sea and 2500 workers toiled here for 4 four years to build what you see. I believe that almost 600 houses were built of the approx. 730 planned. They are built over a thermal area which was to be used for heating. Started in 2014, it was expected to be completion about 2020 but a slump in oil prices and a slowdown in sales in 2018 got the Kuwait company into trouble and it went bankrupt in 2019. Turkey politics are not helping but there is still hope that someone will finish the project. The location is potentially desirable.