Benidorm demands from the Generalitat that the 2nd and final phase of the cultural center be addressed within a maximum period of three months

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, has demanded that the Generalitat Valenciana "within a maximum period of three months address the construction of the second and definitive phase of the cultural center". Toni Pérez launched this requirement after last Thursday, December 29, the City Council and the Thematic Projects Society of the Valencian Community (SPTCV) formalized before a notary the deed of the first phase of the property in favor of the local administration, as The mayor has transferred the groups of the Corporation during the informative commission of Urban Planning held today.

An act of public deed that entailed the payment of 3,989,576.48 euros in VAT by the City Council relating to the first phase of the work, "payment that has already been made".

Toni Pérez stressed that "once the City Council has complied with its commitment to pay this VAT, it is time to demand that the Generalitat do the same and start all the procedures so that within a period not exceeding three months from now, all the details about the second and final phase of the project will be finalized in a protocol or agreement”. "Only in this way - he specified - Ximo Puig's forecast will be fulfilled", who last October, during the institutional visit to the facilities of the cultural center, expressed that the works of the second phase would begin "in all probability" throughout 2023.

The mayor has stressed that "the willingness of the City Council to sit down to work and collaborate with those responsible for the Generalitat and the SPTCV is total and absolute, as it has always been in recent years, firstly to address that initial phase of the works and now for this cultural complex to be completed and Benidorm can finally have an infrastructure up to what the city, its neighbors and its visitors deserve”.

"We are one of the municipalities with the greatest weight and contribution to the GDP of the Valencian Community through our tourist activity, and for this reason, it is fair that we have a return in the form of investments, in this case completing the complex of the cultural center with the benefits with which it was projected”, he pointed out.

Toni Pérez recalled that "at the time, the parties agreed to give priority to the construction and development of the spaces for the Municipal Conservatories of Music and Dance, the smaller room with capacity for more than 400 seats and the treatment of facades and covers of this area”. “Now that this first phase is completed and the VAT has been settled, and that our conservatories are at full capacity and fully endowed by the City Council, it is time to plan the rest of the projected complex. And it must be done, as we have always demanded, in a single and ambitious phase, for which the City Council will spare no effort”.

In addition to the nearly 4 million euros in VAT, within the first phase of the cultural center, the City Council has invested around 400,000 euros to equip the 'José Pérez Barceló' Municipal Conservatory of Music and Dance in practically record time with new musical instruments, furniture, and computer and audiovisual equipment.