The Maspalomas Gran Canaria Consortium, an entity in which the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council participate, have executed during this year 2022 about nine million euros, referring to actions of the Agreement signed with the Tourism Department of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and other needs requested by the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council.
These different actions are also part of the actions that the Consortium has been carrying out during the last two years associated with the strategic plan for the rehabilitation, improvement of the infrastructure and improvement of the tourist space of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, as well as the launch of the economic and social reactivation plan for Gran Canaria.
In this sense, during this year 2022, among the various actions, the contract for the transformation of the Maspalomas Municipal Market with three projects: market expansion, renovation of facilities and implementation of self-consumption photovoltaic energy on the roof. In total, the entire action amounts to 5.987.224,10 euros and the first phase referring to the demolition is already underway, with the work forecast being about twelve months.
At the beginning of this year, an agreement was also signed with Tragsa for the execution of the project and work of the Landscape conditioning of the Palmeral Oasis, which will include a public space where the island's natural heritage is valued along with bio-healthy spaces. This action, which aims to offer new spaces in the diversification of tourism, has a budget of about 2.000.000 euros and it is estimated that at the beginning of 2023 the project can be counted on and the execution of the work can begin.
On the other hand, within these actions to improve infrastructure and landscape, the Conditioning of the Playa del Águila parking lot for about 227.102,80 euros, with completion expected in the first months of next year.
Collaborations with the City Council on supplies and services
In collaboration with the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council, several investments have been made, among which is the tender for the contract for the Supply of hammocks and umbrellas with an estimate of about 600.000 euros, and whose supply is scheduled for the first months of the year. Furthermore, we also find the Specific environmental conditioning of the Tony Gallardo Park, action that includes the services of pruning palm trees in the vicinity of the pedestrian route, pruning and removal of all plant load, elimination of invasive plant species, or removal of algae and silt on the bottom and surface, among others, and whose objective is to adapt and clean the water and river banks, for approximately 59.700 euros, including the replacement of the hydraulic system.
Following this same line of collaboration of the Maspalomas Gran Canaria Consortium with the City Council and Cabildo of Gran Canaria, the second extension of the contract on rental supply of the set of christmas lights for about 185.098,57 euros.
Other actions
The Maspalomas Gran Canaria Consortium already has the project to refurbish the last phase of Paseo Meloneras, which is closest to the around the Maspalomas Lighthouse, with the aim of completing the renovation of the entire avenue already carried out for an amount of one million euros in previous years. Furthermore, in collaboration with the Environment Department of Gran Canaria, it is immersed in the design of signage for the dune area.
For Samuel Henríquez Quintana, first deputy mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and councilor responsible for the Maspalomas – Gran Canaria Consortium, “we are facing a determining entity for the municipality. During this term we have been able not only to execute an investment plan of more than 10 million euros, but we have transformed the Consortium from within, increasing its budget, increasing its staff and, shortly, changing our headquarters which, without a doubt, ", will give more relevance to an entity that will be decisive in the future of San Bartolomé de Tirajana."
For her part, the mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and president of the Consortium, Concepción Narváez Vega, makes “a very positive assessment of the result of the work and the effort of having taken over a practically abandoned organ, and that in this mandate we have been able to "reactivate, provide it with personnel and sufficient financial resources to be able to reactivate our tourist destination Maspalomas Costa Canaria."
