The public hearing begins for the destination of the former Sports City of Boca, in Costanera Sur

The public hearing begins for the destination of the former Sports City of Boca, in Costanera Sur

Meanwhile, a set of organizations – grouped in space “Public Green Waterfront”– will participate in the hearing to reject the real estate development and propose, instead, a “green and public waterfront”.

2,593 inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires registered for the hearing, which will take place at 2:00 p.m., and will speak over 14 sessions, the last of which will take place on November 8.

Among other organizations, “Public Green Waterfront” It is made up of the Observatory of the Right to the City (ODC), the Free Chair of Community Engineering (CLIC), the Labor Ombudsman (La Defe) and the Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina-Autónoma (CTA-Autónoma).

The property that currently belongs to IRSA has a particular history: in the 1960s, the National state gave it to Boca Juniors with the condition that he did not sell it to private parties and used it for sports activities.

Thus, the club began a campaign among its fans to raise money and build the Sport City, a project that included a swimming pool and a stadium, among other facilities, some of which came to fruition.

But, in the 1980s, the then municipality of Buenos Aires gave possession of the land to the football club, which in the early ’90s sold it to the society Santa Maria del Plata, whose majority share was later acquired by IRSA.

Since 1997, IRSA he keeps the land closed while waiting to be able to complete his project: a private neighborhood on the banks of the river.

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