The municipal government of La Laguna demands bad bank to board up the abandoned Taco building that has been converted according to the neighbors in “a drug market” and “a source of permanent insecurity”.
The Sarebofficial name of the bad bank and acronym of the Society for the Management of Assets from Banking Restructuring, is the owner of the property on Los Santos Street where the body of a man was found last Christmas.
The neighbors from this area of the neighborhood of Taco They carry months warning to the Laguna City Council that this buildingwhich was not completed and has remained a concrete skeleton as a result of the real estate crisis from 2008 to 2014, has become a source of problemswith numerous people who access its interior both to sell drugs and to consume them.
The residents of this area of the Taco neighborhood have been warning for months that this building is a source of problems
Adolfo Cordobés, Councilor for Urban Planning of La Lagunaassures that at least since August 2021, this Department “has been addressing the problem, requiring Sareb to proceed to secure and wall up the property.”
Sareb, created to absorb the toxic assets of banks and savings banks so that they could clean up their accounts and be rescued during the real estate crisis, has alleged to the Lagunero City Council that has not been able to execute this request from Management, according to a letter from February 2022, since the building is located squatted and they had not received the necessary authorization from the court to undertake the eviction.
«Sareb has been urged again»According to Adolfo Cordobés, “to proceed to insure this property”. In case the situation continues as before, the person in charge of the Urban Planning Management of the university municipality announces that “measures will be adopted on a subsidiary basis”. That is, the City Council will proceed to wall up the property with its own resources so that no one can access its interior and will pass the costs of this intervention on to the bad bank. The Municipal Housing and Services Society (Muvisa), dependent on the City Council, has also considered the possibility of acquiring the building, “but the required conditions made that measure unfeasible,” said socialist councilor Adolfo Cordobés.
The ‘bad bank’ alleges that the building is ‘squatted’ and has not received the necessary authorization from the court for the eviction
A new event happened last day Christmas He once again put the spotlight on this drug sales point in Taco that neighbors have been denouncing for months. The National Police found the body of a man in the abandoned building on Los Santos Street. Residents of the area had alerted that last morning of December 24 to 25 that they had heard noises caused by fights inside the property, a point of permanent conflicts. When they went to the scene, the agents found inside the property a deceased man, over 60 years old, known in the area.
A resident of the area assured that they have already denounced “repeatedly” the unsafety that this building generates. He detailed that police actions are “daily” and that there is a permanent movement of dozens of people who enter this cement skeleton who come to acquire or consume narcotics, “many times in broad daylight and even in front of minors.”
A neighbor assures that despite numerous complaints “nothing has been done” to end this situation
This lagoon resident complained that despite the permanent complaints from him and other residents of this part of the Taco neighborhood, “nothing has been done” to avoid ending a focus of crime that frightens the many people who live in this part of the neighborhood, within the municipality of La Laguna.
