Miguel Villarroya, president of the Compensation Board, and Leopoldo Díaz Noda, Town Planning Councilor, signed the agreement that unlocks the development of the El Mojón Partial Plan. With that, an estimated investment of more than one billion euros in the development of fifteen privately owned projects to be carried out in almost one million square metersincluding four hotel complexes and several residential and commercial ones.
This document establishes the conditions for the Consistory to proceed with the reception of El Mojón and grant the corresponding building permitsalthough each one will be subject to the regulated procedure that includes the mandatory corresponding technical reports.
The Compensation Board of the El Mojón Partial Plan approved the agreement last week. The document will now be submitted to the public exhibition process for its subsequent ratification by the municipal Plenary.
One million square meters will be invested in one million square meters to develop some fifteen projects
He El Mojón Partial Plan It is a private area whose land includes accommodation, residential and commercial uses and houses two large parks that will be ceded to the Arona City Council, where the local government plans to locate a large skate space. The Consistory will also receive a plot for cultural use in which the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, advanced that the future municipal space for holding congresses, concerts and major events, the so-called Arona Arena, will be built.
The approval of this agreement is the essential condition for the Administration to receive the El Mojón Partial Plan. For this land, the execution of fifteen projects is planned, most of them residential, as well as hotels and shops, with firms such as Lidl or McDonald’s.
The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, explained that this signature shows that “we are relaunching the municipality and giving what investors have requested for so many years: legal security. Both Mena and the Town Planning Councilor, Leopoldo Díaz Oda, stressed that “Arona and Los Cristianos have recovered an opportunity for the modernization and requalification of its accommodation and residential offer that was lost 23 years ago. The councilor defended that “this shows that not only are we unemployed, but that we are a municipality that has yet to write its best years.”