The First Edil manifests the common objective of the municipality so that 2017 serves to culminate the process of recovery of the city after the effects of the earthquakes of 2011 and the floods of 2012.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, has stated that 2016 has been a very important year for our municipality, in which we have made significant progress in the creation of Nueva Lorca, within the process undertaken in 2011 when earthquakes sowed the tragedy .
In addition, the economic recovery has been noticed positively in the municipality.
We ended the year, in the absence of December data, with 555 unemployed less than when it started and with lower unemployment rates than before the crisis began.
These recovery spikes have also been noticed in the social life of Lorca, with a multitudinous Fair as well as the Festivities of San Clemente, without going further, or in the commercial plane, since new stores open every week in our municipality.
The First Edil has stated that during the year that ended they have set up many basic projects for the development of the municipality.
The San Diego renovation works have been completed, many of San Cristobal's have been completed, and progress has been made on the vast battery of regenerations in the Upper Barrios and on many rural roads.
We have also made decisive progress in rebuilding San Fernando.
But I think the main news has been the commissioning of the section of the Central Round between the Bridge of Vallecas and the connection with Eagles.
Not only has it influenced more positively in the improvement of traffic, but it is the first phase of the great project that is the Central Round in all its amplitude, an improvement called to mark the future of the displacements rolled in the municipality and that During the next year will continue to grow.
Francisco Jódar has also indicated that all Lorca are aware that the Avenue needed a remodeling to modernize it and make it a more attractive artery.
Now is the time to turn Juan Carlos I into an eminently commercial route in which the protagonists are pedestrians and not vehicles, with wider sidewalks and much more accessible, including also the improvement of the adjacent streets.
During the process of participation we set up for neighbors and merchants to tell us what kind of street they wanted, we found that this regeneration was a unanimous demand.
It will be a complicated work by what it means to act in the main avenue of the city;
But we are convinced that its improvement could not be delayed more and that is more than necessary and for that reason we face this essential improvement with courage.
2017 will be a fertile year in terms of improvements and consolidation of new projects.
We will renovate the Alameda de Cervantes, the regeneration of Los Angeles and Apolonia will be completed, works will be completed in neighborhoods and districts, we will continue advancing in the construction of the Central Round and the Center of Fairs and Congresses.
But there is a re-inauguration that we will carry out during the first months of 2017 and I believe that the lorquinos especially excites us: the one of the excolegiate of San Patricio that will reopen its doors after the earthquakes and will do it in an unsurpassed state to become In the banner of the patrimonial recovery of Lorca.
Convinced that 2017 will be a positive year for Lorca.
The Mayor has anticipated that 2017 will be a good year for Lorca, I am convinced.
Although the farewell of 2016 is being complicated by the rains episodes recorded in recent days, we have to receive the new year with energy because it will be a capital and definitive course in the recovery of Lorca after the earthquakes.
Except for very specific and exceptional cases, almost all of the demolished real estate will be rebuilt, highlighting especially the case of the neighborhood of San Fernando that will have gone from being a plot to becoming a new neighborhood with 232 houses.
When 2017 concludes our city will have completed, with few exceptions, this ambitious process.
But we will not only have recovered the lost but, as we have always defended, we will have a better New Lorca for all its neighbors, with more resources, better communications, more accessible, smarter and greener.
In addition, the growth of our country is unstoppable and increasingly more, so 2017 should be a year of employment, wealth, new initiatives and, ultimately, a bonanza for society as a whole.
So I want to wish all Lorca a very Merry Christmas and I hope that the year 2017 brings us all the good news that we deserve.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca