The Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council has awarded the demolition project of a hotel abandoned since 1975, located in the Acorán neighborhood, in a procedure to which more than 123,000 euros will be allocated.
The building is on Mayántigo Street and the project for its demolition has been awarded to the company Proyelim SM with a delivery period of five months, and the decision of the municipal corporation has been adopted after the owners of the building could not be located, It is fenced and marked because it represents a security hazard.
In a statement, the Urban Planning Management points out that they have tried to locate “without success, on many occasions, the owners of the lot where it is located so that they would assume their responsibility, take charge of the demolition and authorize the execution of the constant works. of security required before the danger for the passers-by”.
The mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, has indicated in a statement that “the demolition of this building on the Acorán coast, in Añaza, has not been free of numerous difficulties and setbacks in proceeding to its demolition, precisely because It is a privately owned building.
He added that because of this “the beginning of the file to proceed with its demolition is good news for both the Southwest district and for Añaza and the entire municipality, since it will mean removing from the view of the coast a real obstacle that was abandoned many years ago.” and that it is a demand of the citizens.”
The Councilor for Urban Planning, Zaida González, explained that “this is a work of continuity thanks to the work started by my colleague Carlos Tarife in 2018, which Guillermo Díaz Guerra continued by starting the tender for the demolition, and which I now take on to finish, once and for all, and in this mandate, with a building that has given us so many problems since its construction and that poses a risk to the safety of citizens.”
Zaida González added that “the City Council and the Urban Planning area have invested a lot of money to prevent the population from accessing this building, so we hope to proceed with its demolition since, in addition to being dangerous, it causes great damage to the landscape. because it is located on rustic coastal protection land”.
This construction began in 1973, when a private developer requested a building permit from the City Council to build a hotel with 741 apartments.
The license was granted in accordance with the legislation in force at that time and within the framework of the special plans of Tourist Interest.
However, the promoters abandoned the project two years later, leaving a structure building as it is known today, a construction with a Greek Y-shaped plan, 22 stories high, on an area of 2,350 square meters and with an estimated building size. on more than 40,000 square meters.
