SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Extraordinary Governing Board of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council approved this Wednesday the file of the agreement for the sale of the ‘Auditorio’ building, the last step to formalize, once completed by the property registry, all the procedures with the Government of Canarias for the sale of the property, an operation that is expected to be completed before the end of the year.
The mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, recalls in a note that this building located in Cabo Llanos comes to respond to the needs raised to the City Council by various judicial agents to become a future judicial headquarters and emphasizes that “it has been the result of development of different meetings between both parties to determine the procedure and compile the necessary documentation that would make it possible to formalize this sale by the City Council to the Government of the Canary Islands”.
For his part, the Councilor for Municipal Heritage, Juan José Martínez, maintains that in July, after the meetings of the City Council with the judicial groups of the province, the Government of the Canary Islands formalized in writing before this City Council its interest on the building and by indication of the mayor, “priority” was given to this operation to respond to a demand from the different judicial bodies “given the immediate need to have more space for the development of their work.”
The approved file takes into account the technical report of the Heritage Service, whose technical department issues a valuation of the building of 22,057,736.01 euros -with IGIC-, “and whose payment will be made in 4 installments, although the Government of the Canary Islands You can modify the installment or reduce the postponement, without this implying a change in the price”, advances Martínez, who specifies that the terms would be in this same year (25% of the price), 5,514,434 euros; in 2023, 4,135,825.51 euros and the amounts of 4,135,825.50 euros each of the annuities of 2024, 2025 and 2026″.
Bermúdez expressed his satisfaction with the “predisposition” of the Government group to contribute to improving the working conditions of professionals in the judicial sector and citizens and recalled that “this is the last administrative step for the full disposal of the building whose sale and purchase It is expected to be completed before the end of the year.
On the other hand, he said, “it must be taken into account that the capital is also collaborating with the Government of the Canary Islands in the future City of Justice, which will be located precisely in the same area as the Auditorium building.”
Martínez has said that the agreement that basically consisted of updating the appraisal of the file, because the one that existed dated from 2019 and argues that with the approval “the requirements that were pending end, an operation that has been more agile than usual in light of the recent experience of selling to the Canarian Government the building on Avenida 3 de Mayo, which is currently the headquarters of several ministries”.
