President Luis Lacalle Pou led the inauguration of the Atlántico Shopping in Maldonado, where he highlighted the “virtuous circle of investment” that is generated in the area, since the project contemplates a movement of nearly 150 million dollars.
The shopping center of more than 45 thousand square meters is part of a project Altius Group which involves the execution of a residential apartment tower, which generated 950 jobs. In that scenario, Lacalle Pou He spoke of “a virtuous circle of investment, migration and departmental and institutional stimulus.”
In that sense, he explained that “tax resources help those who have less” and countered: “If there are no benefits, the investment does not occur; If this investment does not occur, there are no taxes and there are no jobs. That’s what we did. “It is not inventing the wheel, but rather making it spin.”
Lacalle Pou highlighted Maldonado as a focus of voluntary migration
In his speech, the president highlighted that “Maldonado It is a department that benefits from voluntary, not mandatory, migration, of which there is also a lot, unfortunately.” Regarding this situation, he said that it is because “there are people who say ‘I want to go live in Uruguay’ and we have to take care of all that.”
For Lacalle Pou, “building it takes many decades and breaking it is an instant, a bawdy word,” after which he highlighted “stability, peace and social cohesion” in the country, concepts about which he said that “in addition to being a duty of society, have an economic value in themselves.”
In that sense, he recalled the joint act for the 50 years of the Coup next to José Mujica, Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and Julio María Sanguinetti. “It occurred to me to invite living presidents to give a message of democracy. I’m sure that if they had been Tabaré Vázquez and Jorge Batlle “they would have come,” he said.
And he highlighted: “It speaks very well of our country that people who were in different places 50 years ago, who have different ideologies, sit down to take care of a common good, which is social peace. This stock is listed on the stock exchange.”
“It is a sign of confidence,” said Enrique Antía.
For his part, the mayor of Maldonado, Enrique Antía, He assured that it is “a sign of confidence to see the million-dollar investment and jobs” generated by the shopping center.
At the same time, Antía He recalled that in the coming days it will be inaugurated Punta Shopping, “promoting good competition of which the center of Maldonado “It will also be part.”
“We have to support the center and invest in it,” he added and mentioned that the mayor’s office is waiting for the court’s resolution to expropriate and build public and private parking lots “as part of a modernization that is taking place.”
“We are living in a very special moment and we have to take advantage of this wave of growth that makes us see the future with optimism,” concluded the mayor.
Source: Ambito
