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The Municipal Group announces that it will soon meet with the owners to know the rehabilitation project and be able to transfer "our concerns as well as the complaints of the pleasures they fear for their business"
The Socialist Municipal Group warns the City Council's government team that it will be vigilant to keep one of the only air raid shelters remaining in the city of the Civil War and located in the old Post Office building, where there is a projected Gastronomic market.
In this regard, Councilor Begoña García Retegui explains that "we are not opposed to this property being recovered and put in value by its owners, but we will be waiting for the facade of the building to be preserved, protected through the Special Conservation Plan for The Historic Artistic Complex of the City of Murcia (PECHA), as the refuge and existing archaeological remains, which we hope can be integrated into the new project so that they can be visited and enjoyed as part of our heritage.
However, it indicates that the Socialist Municipal Group is scheduled to meet soon with Grupo Orenes, owner of the Correos building, "to know first hand their project and to be able to convey our concerns, as well as the complaints of the pleasures they fear for their business" .
The Councilor also believes that it is the City Council that should be aware that the permits and licenses that are requested to carry out the necessary reforms are in accordance with what is protected and should be preserved.
"I just hope it does not happen as it always does and it throws concrete to cover remains that are part of our history, as has happened so many times in so many corners of our municipality," says Garcia Retegui, who remembers that there were also antiaircraft shelters on the Paseo Marquis de Corvera and in the Plaza de Santo Domingo of which there is nothing left, and which were part, next to the Correos building of a network of shelters spread throughout the city for the protection of the population in times of war.
In addition, it has been the protection of the PECHA that has prevented until now the demolition of the building, although at the moment it is very deteriorated.
The office of Post and Telegraph in Murcia was designed and built between 1930 and 1931 on the site that had previously occupied the baroque palace of the painter Nicolás Villacis, which gave the street name.
This office closed at the end of the 80's needing more modern and spacious facilities.
In 1998 it was auctioned by Correos de Madrid and sold to the Orenes business group.
The property is composed of basement and three floors and occupies more than 1,600 square meters.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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