According to the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET) the process of moving residents and businesses to make way for the extension of the second line of the Santo Domingo Metro has cost RD$713 million so far.
This includes moving 477 homes at a cost of RD$357.3 million in the neighborhoods of Los Mina and Gualey to build a bridge over the Ozama River.
Opret has also reached an agreement with the owners of a commercial center at the planned site of Station 24 where Av. San Vicente de Paul meets Carretera Mella for RD$34.9 million and the owners of the Hotel Excelsior and tenants in a four-floor building for RD$119 million.
Opret paid RD$132 million for a warehouse belonging to Molinos Modernos and RD$50 million to business owners on the future site of Station 22, on Av. San Vicente de Paul at the corner with Fernandez de Navarrete. At the planned site for Station 21, on Av. Venezuela they paid RD$20 million to buy part of a LPG gas station. On the planned site for Station 23, on Trina de Moya Street, they still have not reached an agreement with the property owners.
Deputy director Leonel Carrasco said that Opret had to pay to move the property owners and that they had a high commercial value as they were building the line in the heart of Santo Domingo East.
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