China Town Remodel Is Done

[garryl]

After 5 months of work, the overhaul of China town is finally over.
From Juramento to Olazabal and Arribenos, the streets are brand new, pedestrian surface level is brought to the same as car level, the streets feel much wider.
New pavement is laid out and trees are planted, also benches are installed, cost 11 million pesos in total. A project pushed by Macri.
Barrio Chino started in 80s when Taiwanese first moved to here.

 

[RodalfoWalsh]

Mostly done. Not quite complete. I pass through (and often stop for lunch) 5 days a week. Its a huge improvement.

 

[RichardP]

Looks very nice. I can't wait to stroll along those streets.

 

[Matt84]

This is great. The sidewalks got very congested next to the chicken fried shrimp stands.
Will they make it entirely pedestrian during the weekends?

Notice since it's a Taiwanese neighborhood Macri has a "Gorilla" geopolitical reason for investing in it.

 

[syngirl]

It is pedestrian on the weekends, we were there about 2 weeks ago and it's a nice upgrade.

 

[garryl]

Notice since it's a Taiwanese neighborhood Macri has a "Gorilla" geopolitical reason for investing in it.

what do you mean ?

 

[Matt84]

what do you mean ?

Taiwan is part of the Free Western World, and was under a right wing military dictatorship until recently. B.A.'s Taiwanese Chinatown reflects the diversity and joy of life that comes with that system, the one Macri would like to favor.

Notice how the corner shop chino grocers don't carry any cool or diverse products, have proliferated during the last decada ganada taking over normal supermarkets which are now a failure, and consist of Fuqing Chinese immigrants brought by Peronist lawyers like Bajo Cero and the like.

 

[sesamosinsal]

Not all of them are Taiwanese.

As to why they did the remodeling in the Barrio Chino, perhaps this:

"Fernando" Yuan Jian Ping, más conocido como "el chino de PRO", consiguió los votos necesarios para entrar en la Legislatura porteña. Se trata de un empresario que exporta vino y aceite nacionales al mundo, y que no tiene un manejo demasiado fluido del castellano.

http://www.clarin.co...1388261638.html

Pero nació en noviembre de 1962 en la región china de Fujian, frente a la isla de Taiwan.

Hace una semana volvió a ser noticia: inauguró su primer local político, en la esquina de Mendoza y Montañeses, en pleno Barrio Chino. Y empapeló las vidrieras con afiches de Macri, pero también de la dupla Yuan Jian Ping-Rodríguez Larreta, con el slogan "Sigamos con el cambio", escrito con caligrafía china.

[Jian Ping] Lideraba un grupo de mesas integradas por 40 representantes de su colectividad. Toda una contribución, si se tiene en cuenta que cada uno pagó un cubierto de 50.000 pesos, aunque según dice una fuente cercana al jefe de Gobierno, Fernando (su nombre en la Argentina) Yuan Jian Ping ya lleva invertidos en la campaña presidencial del macrismo cerca de US$ 700.000.

A Chinese lawmaker in the Buenos Aires city legislature who doesn't speak Spanish. Qué país generoso.

 

[garryl]

Not all of them are Taiwanese.

As to why they did the remodeling in the Barrio Chino, perhaps this:



http://www.clarin.co...1388261638.html







A Chinese lawmaker in the Buenos Aires city legislature who doesn't speak Spanish. Qué país generoso.

Really, I thought he grew up here or came to Argentina when he was very young.
Chinese import/export companies throw money at him, if Macri wins, he will have bigger influence.

 

[garryl]

He came to Argentina in his 20s.
http://www.clarin.com/politica/Yuan-Jian-Ping-PRO-Legislatura_0_1388261638.htmlhttp://www.clarin.com/politica/Yuan-Jian-Ping-PRO-Legislatura_0_1388261638.html