Nicosia mayor calls for trust in wake of tree felling concerns
Nicosia’s mayor asked residents to show trust in the municipality on Thursday, following concerns over the cutting of 65 trees as part of the revamp...
Makarios Avenue
Environment commissioner steps into row over cut trees
Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou on Wednesday stepped into the fracas over felled trees on Makarios Avenue with a letter to Nicosia municipality asking to be...
Second phase of Nicosia’s Makarios Ave works starting Monday
Road works on the second section of Makarios Avenue will start on Monday, the Nicosia municipality has announced. From February 15 at 10am, Makarios Avenue,...
Trees being cut down for Makarios Avenue facelift
The project to upgrade Makarios Avenue was underway on Friday but to the anger of residents and users on social media it appears that many...
Half of Nicosia’s Makarios avenue closed for facelift
Nicosia mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis asked for patience on Monday as half of Makarios avenue was closed to traffic for roadworks set to last 13 months....
Nicosia mayor calls on residents to be patient as two-year-long roadworks begin on Monday
Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis called on the residents of the capital to be patient as roadworks in Makarios avenue are set to begin on Monday,...
Revamp works on Makarios Avenue to begin Monday
Work on Makarios Avenue is set to begin on July 13 as part of the wider project to renew the business area of Makariou, Stasikratous...
New headache coming for Nicosia old town
NICOSIA municipality’s announcement that it would organise its main Christmas event in the old municipal square in a very cramped and not traffic-friendly part of...
Plan for Kallipoleos Avenue announced
Nicosia’s Kallipoleos Avenue is to be improved with a new reconstruction plan, a public works department, the Nicosia municipality and the town planning department statement...
Capital braces for more massive works due to start within months
PLANS by the Nicosia municipality to drastically reconstruct the city’s declining commercial centre, Makarios Avenue and its adjacent streets, has raised questions over the project’s...
Demolition of building closes Nicosia roads
Demolition is underway on the old Bank of Cyprus building on Makarios Avenue opposite City Plaza as part of the road and nearby streets were...
‘Bah humbug to Christmas Avenue’, shopkeepers say
By Angelos Anastasiou THE Nicosia municipality’s ‘Christmas Avenue’ initiative will be the object of a court battle initiated by shopkeepers in Makarios Avenue, who feel...
Christmas time in Nicosia
MUCH of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue was closed to traffic from Monday to accommodate the ‘Christmas Street’ organised for the second year in a row by...
Nicosia pop-up festival ready to roll
Nicosia municipality has awarded shop space to 39 out of 70 applicants for this year’s pop-up festival, it said on Wednesday. The festival is being...
Nicosia municipality issues call for pop-up festival 2014
By Jean Christou Nicosia municipality has announced an open call for proposals for the allocation of vacant shops and the organisation of events on Makarios...
Traffic overhaul for congested Nicosia
By Jean Christou MAKARIOS and Kallipoleos avenues in Nicosia, two of the city centre’s busiest thoroughfares, are to become one-way roads as part of medium...
Christmas Avenue attracted nearly 240,000 people
Around 240,000 people visited Christmas Avenue which had been set up on Makarios Avenue in the capital during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period,...
Shopkeepers hopeful about high street changes
By Constantinos Psillides MAKARIOS Avenue shop owners are thrilled about Christmas Avenue, a Christmas market created by the Nicosia municipality for the duration of the...
A festive boost for dying high street
By Zoe Christodoulides Ask anyone in Nicosia about the capital’s main shopping street and you may well get a hesitant response. Officially, of course, it’s...
A new beat on a dying street
By Maria Gregoriou FOR a few hours on Thursday night Makarios Avenue, once Nicosia’s busiest shopping street, was almost like its former self, packed with...