The San Bartolomé City Council inaugurated the Playa Honda Civic Center this Thursday. The facility is located on Fragata Street, corner with Fayna Street. The mayor, María Dolores Corujo, highlighted in her inaugural speech that "Playa Honda finally has a social and cultural space for coexistence and meeting that lives up to this thriving town and its 12,956 inhabitants".
"We are facing a local facility conceived as a functional and multipurpose building, whose design responds to the diversity of uses and activities that will take place inside," said the first mayor. "The Civic Center is called to serve as a base for community development and citizen participation, constituting a social and cultural meeting point, enabling active and creative leisure," she said.
During the event, the exhibition "Playa Honda, through its people" was also inaugurated, with photos provided by residents of the town. "The meaning of this exhibition of photos of Playa Honda is to reflect the feeling of community, to show how Playa Honda has grown in its social dimension. It is not a geographical or landscape exhibition, it is a journey through time, personalized in the families and people who have grown up with Playa Honda," Corujo highlighted.
Rooms for different uses
The work was executed by the company Pérez Moreno S.A. and has a usable area of 678.78 square meters and an investment in construction of 890,190.71 euros. The building has a ground floor, with a main room, platform, entrance hall, staircase, elevator, multipurpose room, toilet, corridor, cafeteria with warehouse, outdoor access space, cleaning room, general warehouse and waste room. On the upper floor there are six rooms with different uses at the service of the citizen.
At 10:00 a.m. this Friday, the Civic Center opened its doors so that all residents could observe the facilities.
At the inaugural event, in addition to the mayor and the municipal Corporation, the island director of the General State Administration, Juan Prats, the Minister of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Inés Rojas, the Deputy Minister of Education, Manuela Armas, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, the Minister of Culture of the Cabildo, Emma Cabrera, the director of the UNED in Lanzarote, Irene Betancort, and social agents, residents of the town, representatives of the company that executed the works and municipal technicians attended.
