- Manuel Padín: "Nobody spoke here about the ZAL of Cartagena until Citizens took the initiative to the Regional Assembly, but not only this, but it took it by way of amendments in the 2016 and 2017 budgets, and we have pressed for SEPES set an attractive price. "
- "We have come here with a lot of effort and work, and today we have all managed to take an essential step, and from Citizens we will continue to demand that the deadlines be shortened, and that the transfer of the Franco Warehouse be made, the next one that give ", explained the spokesman of Cs Cartagena.
Cartagena, Friday, January 19-.
Ciudadanos celebrates that the price of land in Los Camachos for the future Logistics Activities Zone in Cartagena at 10 euros per square meter as reported by the newspaper La Opinión and La Verdad, the price that businessmen considered fair, an attractive price for develop the logistics area and encourage entrepreneurs to invest their money in a large project.
In a meeting held in December 2017, the Board of Directors of the Conservation Entity of the Los Camachos Polygon requested the national deputies of Ciudadanos, Miguel Garaulet and José Luis Martínez, to actively engage in negotiating the price of land. of the zone of north of the Industrial Area of ​​Los Camachos with the Public Business Entity of Soil (SEPES), before the meeting took place yesterday in Madrid.
Miguel Garaulet maintained contacts with the Ministry to advise that a competitive price be set, below what the Community proposed that was 15 or 16 euros.
Citizens has been in contact with the president of Los Camachos businessmen, Antonio Betancor, and has learned that "considers that achieving this price is the" cherry "for entrepreneurship to find this area of ​​logistics in every way, and buy land, and makes it definitely an indisputable reality and one of the economic drivers not only of Cartagena and its region but of the entire Region of Murcia, also thanked the support of Citizens who has been one hundred percent committed to the project "
For its part, the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, recalled that "here nobody spoke of the ZAL of Cartagena until Citizens took the initiative to the Regional Assembly, but not only this, but took it by way of amendments in the 2016 and 2017 budgets and were approved, it is black on white in a budget law and in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia with budget appropriation ".
Manuel Padín regretted that "we still have not gotten the regional executive to comply with the transfer of the Franco Warehouse to the Los Camachos Polygon, orange amendment in 2017, but our commitment is unavoidable, we will continue to demand compliance and monitoring the Popular Party to comply each and every one of our regional amendments and we have the firm conviction that during 2018 this transfer will be achieved ".
For the local spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, "the feasibility study concluded what Citizens already knew in 2015 when the project was rescued, that the Cartagena ZAL is viable, that there are hundreds of companies interested in making it a reality, that neither the Comarca nor the Region of Murcia can afford not to develop it in Los Camachos and that there are thousands of jobs at stake and the generation of wealth and progress, and it did so despite the fact that the then Minister of Development and now a delegate of the Government, Francisco Bernabé, will deny the interest of the Cartagena business fabric ".
Manuel Padín has said that "we have come here with a lot of effort and work, and today we have all achieved an essential step, that entrepreneurs have the soil at an interesting price, and that we begin to lay the first stone, so from Citizens We will continue to demand that the deadlines be shortened, and that the deposit of the Franco Warehouse will be made, which will be the first infrastructure of the ZAL, the germ on which the whole area will be developed. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena