Santa Cruz wins an emblematic design building, which will bear the name of the dean of the press of the Canary Islands. It will have collective residential use, with 37 homes, three commercial premises, 37 storage rooms on the ground floor and semi-basement, and a garage in the basement with another 37 spaces, one per home, plus three that are assigned to the commercial endowment. It is the Residencial DIARIO DE NOTICES, and, since yesterday, it is much closer to being a reality. The promoter of this project, Boca Medanobegan the demolition of what was the home of this newspaper from 1983 to 2018, when it was moved to the Dársena Pesquera.
Precisely, in memory of such a long relationship between this media outlet and the Salamanca district, which lasted for those 35 years in a building that was previously an old converted tobacco factory, the building that will rise in its place will bear the name of the Dean of the press in the Canary Islands.
Residencial DIARIO DE AVISOS comes to revitalize not only the capital’s economy, which is resuming the path of new housing construction, but also that of the neighborhood itself, which had seen how this part of Calle Salamanca deteriorated, and which is now beginning the on the way to a new housing offer with which to attract families to this area of the Centro-Ifara District.
The demolition will last for several weeks, after which the project designed by the architect Sebastián Estrella Malatesta will begin to take shape, with which a new impetus will be given to the neighborhood, which in recent years has seen how it has been declining its attractiveness as a residential area, as the neighbors have been denouncing on numerous occasions in this same newspaper.
As explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS by the councilor, now of Public Services, Carlos Tarife, and before Urbanism, and therefore, responsible for granting this license, “this is good news for the city, for two reasons. The first is that housing is being built in Santa Cruz, I think it is positive that the Médano group invests in the capital, and it does so thanks to a license in which Urbanism has collaborated a great deal. Therefore, the fact that the works are finally beginning is, without a doubt, a great satisfaction”.
The second reason is related to the neighborhood itself, eager to gain vitality. “So -indicated Tarife- that it is going to be demolished and built will greatly dignify that area between the Rambla and the Salamanca district, which I hope will improve over time”.
New homes in Residencial DAILY NOTICES
This is one of the two constructions that the Planning Department definitively authorized last summer and that will mean the addition of more than a hundred privately-promoted homes to the city. The other stands on Calle La Marina, where a seven-storey building will offer up to 67 homes. In this case, the site is located in front of the former headquarters of Radio Nacional de España, and in this case, up to 114 parking spaces will also be offered.
Tarife recognized before leaving the Urban Planning area that he was confident that this year would be the definitive year for seeing many more cranes in Santa Cruz. For this, he started up the improvement of the licensing department, with the incorporation of three technicians, with the aim of reducing the response times of the reports.
These two promotions are, therefore, the beginning of an economic recovery that, hand in hand with construction, can bring more employment to Santa Cruz, which is already leading the hiring of the Island, especially in the services sector, so that the construction of housing comes to diversify this contracting and add its grain of sand to the long-awaited economic recovery.
