Berlin Wall Real Estate Project Halted Amid Public Protests
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Living Bauhaus, a German real estate investor, halted a residential project involving the removal of parts of the Berlin Wall after a public outcry over the impact of gentrification on the German capital’s Cold War legacy.
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit offered to mediate in the dispute after as many as 6,000 people demonstrated yesterday against the destruction of one of the last continuous sections of wall, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported. The former bulwark separating communist East Germany from West Berlin is today a major tourist attraction.