War is the realm of uncertainty and its action is shrouded in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. Sensitive and discriminating judgment is required; an intelligence skilled at smelling the truth. The president of Lopesan, Eustasio López, has applied strict control in the last 50 years that has been relaxed since 2017 if, as he had read Carl von Clausewitz at the time, he would know what fog tastes like.
The construction business conglomerate Lopesan has completed half a century of existence in 2022 in the midst of a process of reorganizing the chain's internal power. The company that emerged on August 17, 1972 is preparing to face new internal processes and the retirement of some managers that will generate greater weight for the CEO Francisco López who, as Heisenberg said in the field of quantum theory, earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, "the attitude that this new man maintains towards nature will be radically different from the attitude he maintained in previous times."
In these 50 years it has been translated that real power is in the orbit of Eustasio López after the abandonment of positions of power by Francisco López for not wanting to assume automatic obedience from his partners and family. Gone is the time when both of them, after the death of his father, created the company Hijos de Francisco López Sánchez in a notary office in Las Palmas. After those first moments and the arrival of democracy, since 1978 the company's income skyrocketed with the improvement of the Gando airport runway, key to the development of the tourism business in the south of Gran Canaria. After that came the Maspalomas International Field, and then Meloneras.
As the tax system of the Canary Islands generated money, capitalization tools arrived that allowed the purchase of hotels in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura or IFA Hotels itself when it was about to pass into the hands of Santana Cazorla, a rival group that was devoured by the separation. of other brothers, Santiago and Manuel. After 2018, the company has undertaken plans such as expansion in the Caribbean and entry into the management business in the Asian market. There have also been missteps such as investments in the press due to political pressure, the creation of a digital tour operator when the .com bubble burst, or the crisis of a historical partner in 2019, Thomas Cook.
Does Lopesan have something to celebrate? In Gran Canaria there are: a four-star hotel on a plot in Meloneras (790 beds), another 4-star hotel on a plot of Meloneras (935 beds) worth 80.000.000 euros and a four-star hotel on a fourth plot of Meloneras ( 576 beds) for 50.000.000 euros. Blocked: expansion of Lopesan Villa del Conde (120 rooms) (5 stars) for 20.000.000 euros and an Asian-type hotel with 265 rooms, 5-star luxury, 85.000.000 euros. The Meloneras Marina (500 berths) for 70.000.000 euros is also trapped in the administrative tangle that includes a Meloneras Golf Resort project, declared of general interest, with 2.500 rooms, worth 500.000.000 euros.
