Under the slogan “Buenos Aires leaves”, different residents of the City carried out a mobilization in front of the Buenos Aires Legislature, which had been summoned on social networks, to defend the historical heritage from District.
“What we are denouncing is that they are destroying all the historical heritage neighborhood, all green spaces, that’s why we say that this is a true barricide ”, affirmed the member of the group Vecinos Unidos de Núñez, Matías Amica, to Page 12. Likewise, it pointed out that the destruction of the goods they also deepen “the problems in electricity, gas and running water services.”
“The lack of planning, the fact of not thinking in the long term, leads to things overflowing to the detriment of the neighbors,” Amica sentenced regarding the progress of the construction by the Buenos Aires government and the loss of the historical heritage.
For its part, Marcos Sbarbati from Basta de Demoler, stated that “the most serious thing is that all this damage against life in the neighborhoods is done in the name of the supposed progress, a poorly understood progress because after the pandemic, in the XXI century we have to do other things for the City, because the dogma of our City has been strongly attacked ”.
“Another damage is that it is said that with the new constructions the housing deficit is solved, when in reality that is very difficult when it comes to properties valued at $ 3,000 per square meter each property, not to mention the privatized land such as Costa Salguero, which constitute a very great damage to public space in the City ”, he added.
Likewise, Ana Bas, Sbarbati’s companion, recalled that the Buenos Aires government has several lawsuits for not respecting the buildings that are part of the history of the City.
Public hearings for the construction in Costanera
In this context, the neighbors They also participated in public hearings in which they ratified their refusal to build towers on the Costanera Sur.
More than two thousand residents registered for the 14 hearings scheduled to express their discomfort to the authorities in the Legislature. Likewise, officials from the Frente de Todos, as well as Juntos por el Cambio, who are in favor of this initiative, have already expressed their views.
This project is promoted by the construction company Grupo Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRSA), with the support of the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
