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Belgrade Trump Hotel Project Dropped After Serbia’s Culture Minister Is Indicted
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ARTnews.com
Plans to turn one of Belgrade’s most charged architectural sites into a Trump-branded luxury hotel have collapsed after Serbia’s culture minister and several senior heritage officials were indicted, according to The Art Newspaper, bringing a controversial redevelopment proposal to an abrupt halt.
The project would have transformed the Generalštab complex, a former Yugoslav military headquarters and landmark of postwar Modernism, into a high-end development anchored by a Trump International Hotel.
But the developer, Affinity Global Development, a company linked to Jared Kushner, has now withdrawn from the deal following indictments against Nikola Selaković, Serbia’s minister of culture, and three other senior officials involved in cultural heritage protection, according to The Art Newspaper.
The Generalštab site, badly damaged during NATO’s 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, has long been a flashpoint in debates over memory, heritage, and redevelopment.
Public opposition was fierce, fueled in part by the symbolism of a U.S.-affiliated luxury hotel rising on a site many Serbians associate with NATO airstrikes.