{"id":777010727,"date":"2023-10-31T07:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777010727"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:39:52","slug":"ipi-to-dismantle-crane-towers-at-unfinished-garapan-hotel-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipi-to-dismantle-crane-towers-at-unfinished-garapan-hotel-casino","title":{"rendered":"IPI to dismantle crane towers at unfinished Garapan hotel-casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The company has finally agreed to dismantle the two unsafe crane towers at its own cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Imperial Pacific International (IPI)<\/strong>\u00a0has told the Department of Public Works (DPW) that it will dismantle two crane towers at its incomplete hotel-casino in Garapan.\u00a0This decision is a response to\u00a0DPW’s declaration of “actual and immediate danger”<\/a> and notice mandating immediate disassembly at the government’s cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPI’s director, How Yo Chi, says the company will expedite the dismantling of crane towers No. 5 and No. 6 in collaboration with Ocean B LLC and will cover the removal expenses itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DPW’s building safety official,\u00a0Yvonne B. Tenorio<\/strong>, had raised concerns that crane tower No. 5t posed an immediate danger of collapse, based on inspection records and prior assessments. The crane has not been used since December 2020. Concerns arose due to the deteriorating condition of its frame components and connections, with visible signs of rust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March,\u00a0\u00a0Cui Lijie<\/strong>, the majority owner of Imperial Pacific International (IPI), said she was\u00a0seeking new investors<\/a>\u00a0to help renew work on the Garapan casino resort. In an interview with Mariana\u2019s Variety, she admitted that investor interest had fallen off due to negative stories about IPI but said the company was doing all it could to improve the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company has finally agreed to dismantle the two unsafe crane towers at its own cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) has committed to dismantling two unsafe crane towers at its incomplete Garapan hotel-casino in the Northern Mariana Islands, responding to a Department of Public Works (DPW) mandate citing immediate danger. This operational expenditure comes as IPI's majority owner, Cui Lijie, actively seeks new investors to revitalize the stalled integrated resort project.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI), Department of Public Works (DPW), How Yo Chi, Ocean B LLC, Yvonne B. Tenorio, Cui Lijie, Mariana\u2019s Variety","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Garapan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI Capitalization Strategy?","query":"What are the specific financial implications of IPI's current operational liabilities, and what is the detailed strategy for securing new capital to complete the Garapan integrated resort?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact on Project?","query":"How will the DPW's safety mandate and IPI's compliance efforts impact the revised timeline for construction resumption and the overall long-term viability of the Garapan casino resort project?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[24134],"class_list":["post-777010727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-imperial-pacific-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777010727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041051,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010727\/revisions\/777041051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777010727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}