Three major high-rise projects violate Tashkent’s master plan

00:24 / 22.06.20255,0754 min

Three large-scale construction projects have recently been presented in Tashkent, all of which significantly exceed the height limits stipulated in the city's approved master plan.

Photo: Frames from the video

Three major high-rise projects violate Tashkent’s master plan

Photo: Frames from the video

One of them is being proposed by Foton JSC, a company privatized just last year. They are suggesting a 53-story complex – taller than Nest One, currently the highest skyscraper in Uzbekistan – on the site of their former factory near Amir Temur Avenue.

The second project involves the former building of the State Committee for Geology on Taras Shevchenko Street, which was purchased by Xamkar Inshaat LLC. The company plans to build ten residential high-rises, including at least one 30-story building, even though the master plan allows a maximum of only five stories in that area.

The third project is led by the Tashkent City Administration itself. Their company, Tashkent Invest, has developed a plan for the Beshyogoch neighborhood, which includes a 30-story tower—despite the master plan limiting heights there to nine stories.

These three projects were featured in a recent televised report on “Uzbekistan 24,” following a June 16 presentation to the President of Uzbekistan on planned construction initiatives in the capital. During the broadcast, Tashkent Mayor Shavkat Umurzakov gave an interview, and presentation boards for these proposed projects were shown.