The Government of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has already completed the construction of 45 facilities out of the 96 contemplated in Madrid Capital 21, the municipal endowment plan launched by the City Council for the period 2019-2027, and they will be at least 48 of which will have been built by the end of the mandate.
In addition to the 45 facilities already completed, among which are six nursery schools or six sports facilities, the Government of PP and Ciudadanos is in the process of executing another three endowments – the expansion of the Buenavista Cultural Center and two comprehensive district units ( UID) of the Municipal Police, in Chamartín and Carabanchel-, so there will be at least 48 facilities for ‘Madrid Capital 21’ that will have been completed at the end of the mandate, according to details from the Works and Equipment area.
Madrid Capital 21 was born with the commitment that half, at least 48 facilities of the 96 planned, would be finished by 2023.
The same sources point out that the mayor will close the mandate having built “four times more facilities than the previous government team, with Manuela Carmena (2015-2019) at the helm.”
The 45 new facilities already completed, distributed throughout all the city’s districts, have involved a municipal investment of almost 170 million euros.
Among these endowments already completed are eleven endowments for Social Services, Senior Citizens and Day Centers, four cultural and youth facilities, four in the field of economy and innovation and fourteen for Security and Emergency services.
The municipal inaugurations have not been exempt from gross errors and subsequent complaints from the opposition, such as the case of the La Cebada sports field, which, despite being prepared for its opening, has had to keep the lock on longer than expected. stipulated as there was no physical space for some basic elements.
The Madrid City Council designed the infrastructure without the minimum height of 7 meters necessary for some regulatory sports that are practiced indoors, so activities such as futsal cannot be practiced in a federated manner.
In other facilities, such as the new Cea Bermúdez Municipal Sports Center (CDM), the Madrid City Council modified the initial plan to eliminate the basketball and indoor soccer field and turn that space into a gym that, as denounced by residents , will be exploited by a private company and not a municipal one. So that the students of the schools in the area lack facilities to practice team sports in children’s stages.
