The City Council of Santa Cruz of Tenerife has awarded the project for the demolition of the Anaza’s mammotha hotel located in the Acorán neighborhood, whose construction began in 1973 and which was abandoned by its owners two years later. Its construction was carried out after a private German developer requested a building permit from the municipal 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, leaving the structure of a construction with a Y-shaped plan, 22 stories high, on an area of 2,350 square meters and with a building estimated at more than 40,000 square meters.
With the expiration in 2017 of the license granted for its construction four decades ago, the Urban Planning area of the municipal council launched the legal mechanisms to erase this abandoned building from the landscape of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He sent multiple notifications to the owners so that they would assume their responsibility, be in charge of paying for the demolition and authorize the execution of different security works required in view of the danger to passers-by.
Given the impossibility of locating the property, in 2019 the City Council installed a four-meter-high fence on its perimeter to prevent people from entering the premises, along with the placement of security cameras and a sign indicating a danger. of security. After this, the procedures began to carry out its demolition, which It will cost approximately two million euros. This Thursday, the council announced the award of the project to the company Proyelim SM with a delivery period of five months.
In recent years, the hotel had been the protagonist of events of various kinds: in December 2022, a woman in her 50s threatened to threatened to throw himself into the void from the thirteenth floor, forcing police intervention that prevented a tragedy. In 2020, two people entered the premises and began jumping between the balconies of the building. A month earlier, another group of people entered the hotel again to fly a drone and launch flares from the top floor.
Also, in 2021, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council began an investigation after the appearance of about eight shanties next to its structure. On the other hand, it is a place frequented by instagramerswho are looking to take photos in this abandoned site.
