The Arrecife City Council will request the Port Authority of Las Palmas to cede a large plot of land for the creation of a public park. The site is located near the old Salinas de Puerto de Naos, located near the pedestrian promenade that connects the Castillo de San José and the Muelle de los Mármoles.
Yonathan de León, public representative on the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, has already raised this idea of the new park in the port area to the president of the APLP, Beatriz Calzada. The first mayor of Arrecife has stated that the Port Authority is "receptive" to this municipal approach to improve the urban image of the capital of Lanzarote throughout the port environment.
This new park will be in the vicinity of the old Agramar canning factories, and inside which a pumping system of the Water Consortium of Lanzarote was located.
The creation of this new urban park will change this area where thousands of visitors pass annually, in addition to residents, as it is located near the pedestrian promenade that connects the urban center of Arrecife with the Castillo de San José and the Muelle de los Mármoles. Within the modernization of the urban image of Arrecife, the restoration of the section of the pedestrian promenade from the Castillo de San José and Los Mármoles is being finalized, through Playa La Arena, with a municipal investment of around 500,000 euros.
Restoration of the Molino and the Salinas de Naos area approved
The mayor has assured that this entire area "will change in the coming years", where these projects of the City Council will be joined by the restoration of the mill and an area of the old Salinas de Naos. These projects have been authorized by the General Directorate of Coasts and Management of the Canary Maritime Space, in the easement area of the maritime-terrestrial public domain.
Yonathan de León has confirmed that the City Council has received this approval, presented by the owners of those salt flats, for the restoration and conservation of the walls and mill, adjacent to the road that connects Puerto de Naos with Playa de La Arena, and the Miac Castillo de San José.
Yonathan de León has highlighted that "one of his objectives as mayor, for this second part of the mandate, is focused on improving the neighborhoods and creating new parks and green areas." To this end, the new Arrecife Supplementary Plan, which has already been validated by the City Council plenary session, and approved by the Canary Islands Government Council, plans the creation of green lungs to improve the environmental quality of the city.
In this sense, a total of 287,000 square meters of surface area will be allocated to urban parks, going from 2.57 square meters per inhabitant to 6.41 square meters.