The leaders of Da Nang and Quang Nam Province have agreed to ask the government’s permission not to proceed with the city’s University Village project, which has been suspended for 17 years.

The project, officially approved by the Prime Minister on 9 December 1997, was scheduled to encompass 110ha in Da Nang’s Ngu Hanh Son District and 190ha in Quang Nam Province’s Dien Ban District.  The University of Da Nang is the project’s developer.  However, to date no construction work has been started at the project site. 

The 2009 ground-breaking ceremony of the University Village project

Once the cancellation of the project has been approved by the central government, the UK-Viet Nam International University and a series of other high-quality education and training projects, including the American Pacific University (APU) and the Pegasus International College of Singapore’s Kinderworld Education Group, will be built on the University Village project’s site.

With regard to local urban infrastructure development projects, the city leaders recently approved the implementation of the Thanh Loc Dan residential building project.  A construction site for a 110kV transformer station in Ngu Hanh Son District will be identified, and an additional 3,000 m² of land on Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street will be handed over to Viet Nam Social Security to build its central region and highlands branch headquarters.

Also, 50ha of land in Hoa Vang District’s Hoa Phong Commune will be earmarked for the construction of a hi-tech agricultural production zone.  Meanwhile, the ownership rights of 2.1ha of land at a quarry in the district’s Hoa Nhon Commune will be transferred to a local company to set up an oven-fired bricks manufacturing plant, subject to an assessment of the project’s impacts on the local environment.