The plenary session of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, chaired by Oswaldo Betancort, has agreed this Tuesday as an emergency measure to initiate the process for the declaration of Insular Interest of the Execution Project of the Congress Center of Lanzarote, which will be located at the southern entrance of Arrecife, in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Island Corporation.
This measure will "speed up the creation of what will be an equipment of excellence integrated into the coastline of the capital, an emblematic, versatile and functional architectural infrastructure that will contribute to the socio-economic development of the Island by enabling the holding of large cultural events and congresses, thus materializing an old demand of the society of Lanzarote and La Graciosa", highlighted Oswaldo Betancort.
The vice president and head of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, also highlighted in the plenary session the work of the area in this declaration of Insular Interest. "It has been from Public Works where this procedure has been initiated for the future congress center, so demanded by the citizens of Lanzarote in recent decades," added Medina, who also pointed out that in this way "the commitment acquired by the Island Government is fulfilled."
According to the president of the Cabildo, the agreement reached in the ordinary plenary session held this Tuesday "constitutes a new example of the motivation that this government group has to resolve and advance, with facts, in the important strategic infrastructures pending execution that Lanzarote has."
"It will be an equipment of excellence integrated into the coastline of the capital, an emblematic architectural infrastructure, versatile and functional that will contribute to the island's socio-economic development by enabling the holding of large cultural events and congresses," said the president of the Lanzarote Cabildo.
In this sense, the island councilor of Territorial Policy, Jesús Machín Tavío, highlighted that "the environmental assessment of the project will be carried out by the newly created Insular Environmental Assessment Body of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, which will reduce its execution time by not having to send it to the Autonomous Commission of Environmental Assessment."
The head of the Cabildo's Culture Area, Machín Tavío, also highlighted that with the creation of this Congress Center "Arrecife will significantly improve its cultural and leisure offer, which will allow it to position itself at the level it deserves as the third most important city in the Canary Islands with the celebration of musical shows, concerts, theatrical performances, exhibitions and other top-level cultural activities."