Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
With less than a week before the deadline the Taipei City Government set for Farglory Group to finish
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je speaks about the Taipei Dome project yesterday in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
safety reviews of the Taipei Dome, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said the two sides have not yet reached a consensus on the Dome’s future.
Ko made the comment in response to media queries about a meeting that took place about two weeks ago between him and Farglory chairman Chao Teng-hsiung (趙藤雄).
Ko had said that if Farglory does not pass seven safety reviews of the Dome by Thursday, he would dissolve the contract.
Asked what they talked about, Ko said he and Chao illustrated their respective stance on the Dome impasse.
He said he gave Chao a review of events regarding the Dome — from Farglory’s deviation from the Dome’s construction plan, the city’s work suspension order on the Dome, to two recent investigation results by the Taipei High Administrative Court and the Control Yuan, both of which found that the city’s work suspension order to be within reason and legal parameters. [FULL STORY]
