SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Parliament of the Canary Islands will invest 1.1 million euros in the rehabilitation of a listed building in the center of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, donated by the City Council, to create the offices of the Provincial Council on the island.
The details of the project, which will be awarded at the beginning of 2024 and whose execution will last about 18 months, have been made known to journalists by the Deputy of the Common, Rafael Yanes, the president of Parliament, Astrid Pérez, the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez and the architect responsible for the rehabilitation project, Maribel Correa.
Yanes has pointed out that this initiative opens the possibility of the institution having a “public building” in the capital, something that he has linked to the mayor’s “effort”, given that there were other options in other municipalities on the island.
He has also valued the work of the capital’s City Council, which he has personalized in the former secretary general, Luis Prieto, and the councilor Dámaso Arteaga, the former director general of Heritage, José Julián Isturitz, and the team of the presidency of Parliament, both in the previous legislature as in the current one.
He recalled that the Common Council started its activity in a “very modest” way 38 years ago, receiving residents at the deputy’s house, and now it already has offices on the eight islands and has gained “credibility” based on the increase in the number of citizen complaints.
Yanes has specified, however, that the official headquarters of the Provincial Council will remain in Santa Cruz de La Palma, as stated in the Statute of Autonomy.
Pérez has indicated that this property is transferred for a period of 50 years and has highlighted that it is “very important” that the Provincial Council has its headquarters in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and that this work helps rehabilitate the city’s historical heritage. .
Bermúdez commented that they had the “destination” for the institution to have offices in the city and believes that this property meets the “ideal conditions” to provide “dignity” in the service provided to citizens.
The building measures about 400 square meters and dates back to the early 1930s.
The architect has detailed that the central patio, now without lighting due to certain domestic uses in the past, will become the central axis of the building when it is provided with more light.
The entrance will be through Castillo Street – where an old bookstore is now located – to give “more packaging” to the headquarters and the bays of the building will be respected and the architect has admitted that the work is “most complicated” to create telecommunications, an elevator, an evacuation staircase or air conditioning and firefighting systems.
He has also said that a good part of the building’s core is being recovered, although it will be reinforced. “The appearance will be as it is but well done,” he added.
