Without hurry, but without pause, authorities they work in the work of REMOVAL of the Model market Since last January, one of the most emblematic works of the Colonial City and that has worked uninterrupted for 83 years, offering a space for commercial, tourist and artisanal activity since its foundation in 1942.
In the last four months, a equipment about 30 workers They have been working on the ceiling – where they have applied fine to try to correct the leaks, which still persist when they rain – as on the second floor of the building in which they have been made work of filling and sanitized of the columns that support the central vault, which has consisted of:
- Placement of a material protective anticorrosive on the oxidized rods that already stood out from the columns of the infrastructure, in order to reinforce them and prevent them from continuing to run as time passes
- Filling of the columns They presented cracks and holes
- Fogs of the walls and columns where the cracks and leaks
- Removal of old paint and paint once the infrastructure is ready.
To this is added the placement of Gutters and Protectors For electrical wiring, which were previously exposed to leaks, avoiding with these insulating materials that some short circuit occurs.
He job It is done without paralyzing the trade
Engineers and technicians who work in the construction site They agree that work of REMOVAL They have marched “a little slow” because they have to be done trying to affect, as little as possible, the work daily of the merchants.
“We had to go advancing alpasotaking security and prevention measures. It is a little complicated because we are working on top of the people. It is not the same when one works (with the building alone), that you speed it up at once, “an engineer explained Free newspaper During a tour of the facilities.
At first work They were slowed by expected bureaucratic processes in a construction site of this magnitude that is part of the project of rescue of public spaces carried out by the Ministry of Tourism, integrated into the work of REMOVAL of the colonial zone, and that also has the support of the Mayor’s Office and the Inter -American Development Bank (IDB).
However, the Engineers They assured that they now work from Monday to Friday, from 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon, to advance as much as possible the construction site.
Merchants are satisfied with the construction site
Fausto Jiménez, a businessman second generation in the sale of goods In the new market, he explained that authorities They have been doing “a good job“With one construction site that was needed urgently, and explains that he is aware that work They have gone slowly to keep all merchants over there.
This coincides Carlos Báez, spokesman for the Association of Merchants of the Model marketwho explained that the REMOVALonce finished, will respond to more than 150 merchants that work there, and that they had decades claiming the construction site.
