The project for the construction of the future municipal market of La Laguna will have the financial support of the Government of the Canary Islands. Thus, the mayor of Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, and the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, held a work meeting yesterday in which it was agreed that the regional Executive will allocate one million euros for the design of “a basic infrastructure that the citizens of La Laguna have been demanding for more than a decade”, in the words of the local councilor, who thanked “the president’s sensitivity to the municipality”.
“This is a very important investment and having the financial support of the Government of the Canary Islands is very good news, which allows us to continue advancing in one of the great challenges of this government group: to recover the municipal market for La Laguna, in its old location in the Plaza del Adelantado, with a modern building, adapted to the demands and needs of our times”, valued Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, who was accompanied at the meeting by the councilors of Urban Planning, Santiago Pérez, and Finance, Alejandro Marrero . On behalf of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Minister for Territorial Planning, José Antonio Valbuena, also spoke.
La Carnicería Ravine
Likewise, the mayor reported that the drafting of the canalization project for the La Carnicería ravine, an essential preliminary step for the future execution of the Market, “is quite advanced, so that this year the work that will establish the new channeling, and which will have an estimated budget of 4.5 million euros”, since it currently runs below the plot on which the future recess will be built. Once the channeling is completed, the project for the design of the building can be contracted, an installation that will be accompanied by an underground car park and a new square.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez recalled that the design of the new building will emerge from a participatory process in which the opinion of the recoveros and recoveras has already been obtained and that a new stage has now begun with direct consultations with the public. “The merchants of the Market have been in temporary facilities for more than 12 years, in which they were located after the demolition of the old arcade with the promise that they would return shortly. We want to assume that commitment that previous corporations did not know how to or were unable to fulfill and give citizens a voice,” he stressed.
Consultation website
The opening of the consultation process to neighborhood groups and citizens in general, which started last week with the first meetings, will allow the City Council “to configure in a consensual way the new facility that will replace the old design, turning it into a European benchmark”, he assured. Mayor.
The query form can now be completed through the municipal website, at the address www.aytolalaguna.es/servicios/servicios-municipales/mercado/.
75% want a mix between a shopping center and an open plaza
The surveys carried out in the first place to the recoveros and recoveras of the current municipal market showed that 75% want the new building to be a mixed space, a combination between a shopping center type and an open square mode. Likewise, 88.5% of the people surveyed want the market to return to its previous location, Plaza del Adelantado, and only 1.9% do not want it. Regarding the farmer’s market, 67.3% want it to be included in the new market and 25% want it to be separate, and as for the flower sector, 80.8% want the stalls to return to the entrance main of the market.
