The Santa Cruz City Council, through the Urban Planning area, has awarded the drafting of the project for the demolition of the Anaza hotelan abandoned building on Mayantigo street, in the Southwest district, to the company Proyelim, SL, for an amount that exceeds 123,000 euros and a delivery period of five months.
This procedure is carried out by the City Council after trying on many occasions, without success, to locate the owners of the lot where the abandoned property is located so that they can assume their responsibility, take charge of the demolition and authorize the execution of the constant security work. required in the face of danger to passers-by.
The mayor of the capital, José Manuel Bermúdez, recalled that “the demolition of this building on the coast of Acorán, in Añaza, has not been exempt from numerous difficulties and setbacks in proceeding to its demolition, precisely because it is a building owned by private.”
Likewise, the Santa Cruz president highlighted that “the beginning of the file to proceed with its demolition is good news, both for the Southwest district and for Añaza and the entire municipality, since it will mean removing from the view of the coast a real obstacle abandoned ago. many years and that it is a demand of the citizens.” For her part, 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 assume. to put an end, 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.”
The mayor of the capital added in this regard that “from the City Council, and from the Urban Planning area, a lot of money has been invested so that the population does not access this building, so we hope to proceed with its demolition, since in addition to being dangerous, “It causes great landscape damage, since it is located on rustic coastal protection land.”
Since 1975
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 in 1975, 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 a building estimated at more than 40,000 square meters. A previous study has set the cost of demolishing this building at 3.1 million.
