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Given the widespread news about the possible recovery of the building was Provincial Prison (The "new" old jail) and after the simultaneous denial and confirmation once, depending on the council to be consulted, the College of Architects must show:

16 years ago, in 1999, under threat of demolition for the building of the old jail, even license obtained, the College of Architects was the only institution that raised forcefully protection and recovery for the city of Murcia, opposing its imminent destruction and were the actions of the College, along with other professionals and citizens, who got their conservation.

Although it may be more accurate to say "its not demolition" that "conservation" because we had to attend a helpless situation truly abandoned, lost the lead in the tangle of red tape until finally pass to coincide with municipal property the collapse of the central dome of the panopticon.

In 2011, after the slow result, almost unattainable transmission and spending at the municipal domain, the mayor and the councilman of Culture of the City Council, called for the support of the Association in the development of procedures that would lead to the rehabilitation of the building and putting available to the city as a first-order equipment.

The College issued a report-report on this proposed determination of the uses to which the building would be used by the process of consultation and professional and citizen participation that would end with a competition of draft broad call once or set the destinations of the rehabilitate spaces.

Since then and despite the different times when we reiterate our willingness to do really nothing effective has been done.

While it is true that the so-called "problem of the Old Jail", which prefer to call the "opportunity of the old jail" has been part of almost all comments, proposals and debates.

In the first visit to the new corporation, in the person of its mayor and Town Planning, the rehabilitation of the former provincial prison was one of the unique issues that we discussed getting the promise, confirmed later by declarations press attendees of the notice of competition for the best possible solution.

We now know, with surprise and without warning, it has been decided to have a budget of 5.3 million euros for rehabilitation, the project is going to make the company Urbanizadora Municipal SA, and that the fees are allocated to such work is of 318,000 euros.

Also it is not known what the applications or resorting to equivocal concept of "flexible container".

Welcome the budget to undertake, once and for all, the long-awaited recovery of the building and the urban space.

But perhaps it should be recalled that however local it is, Urbanizadora Municipal SA is that: a corporation, ie, a merchant as another regardless of their shareholders.

At least that is clear from reading the statutes.

And as such and given the characteristics of the hiring indicated, if it is achieved not understand that this is a work space intervention category and listed building, it deserves, once and for all, resolve the situation in recent years, with a wide Contest call to "put to Murcia on the map" as it was in the past;

if they do not understand that Architecture, Heritage and Urban City deserves better treatment, in that case, unless the law is enforced and attendance at procurement of all those who may be eligible are allowed to so, on equal terms.

Source: Agencias