Taipei City Government

Taipei City Government announced that all activities at the Huashan Grassland would be suspended from June 19 onwards, following a homicide incident at the site earlier this month.

The property owner of Huashan Grassland is the Judicial Yuan. The site has been leased to Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office (URO) up through June 30, 2018.

URO pointed out that it has leased the venue to promote urban regeneration efforts and diversity. With the lease expiring soon, the agency decided to open the venue for public use by granting permission to art group Unregulated Masses to utilize the venue as the site for a temporary artist village lasting from November 2017 through June 30, 2018.

In setting up the artist village, Unregulated Masses called for artistic and creative proposals from the public and requested participants to comply with rules set out by the management team and authorities. Unregulated Masses expressed regret over the tragedy and said it will cooperate with investigations.

All resident teams on the facility have begun evacuation and the site of the incident will be dismantled after investigation has been completed. With the facility now closed to public access, URO said it has started preparation work to return the property to the Judicial Yuan.