Lithuania scraps plan for swish $25M conference center on old Jewish cemetery – Official says Piramont Cemetery project abandoned due to COVID-19 changing the conference tourism market | Timesofisrael

JTA — Lithuania’s government has shelved controversial plans to build a flashy conference center on what used to be a Jewish cemetery, in the capital city of Vilnius, because of how the COVID-19 pandemic “has changed the conference tourism market and environment.”