The Valle San Lorenzo Sports City It will provide this strip of the most populated nucleus of the Arona midlands with one of the great demands of the population: a parking area. It will also provide public lighting, landscaped spaces, a bus stop, street furniture and a walkway adapted for the transit of people with reduced mobility, complying with the Regulation for the Suppression of Architectural Barriers.
With an investment of 1,305,400 euros, this initiative, framed in the Arona advances program, continues the impulse of the Arona City Council in investments that generate not only the modernization of the municipality, but its recovery and economic reactivation, in moments of crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic.
José Julián Mena, mayor of Arona, affirms that the new Sports City of Valle San Lorenzo “will be a catalyst for this nucleus and for the municipality’s midlands. These works are an example of the work and effort of the City Council to promote public investment, to provide Arona and its neighbors with new public spaces that benefit and improve life. Modernizing the municipality and promoting job creation is essential at this time.
The Councilor for Works, Leopoldo Díaz Oda, points out that the work of urbanization of the surroundings is «a last impulse for the integration of the pavilion, that will be unified to the space of the fighting ground and the soccer field. It is about the modernization of the area, which will be equipped not only with parking lots, thus solving an important neighborhood claim, but also an accessible walkway without barriers, landscaped areas … It will be a key boost for the nucleus ».
Francisco Marichal, Councilor for Sports, emphasized the importance of sports in the municipality “for the residents and for the athletes of Europe who visit us every year for their winter training.” These works to modernize the surroundings of the pavilion, the wrestling field and the Valle San Lorenzo soccer field, as well as the rest of the improvements that are being carried out in the sports facilities of other centers, «offer our athletes quality infrastructures », Concludes the mayor.