While monitoring from Rome the preview of the arrival of President Javier Milei to the Cordoba Cabildo and developing the strategy of a new claim together with other mayors of the interior for transportation subsidies, Cordoba mayor Daniel Passerini is focused on the details prior to the inauguration of the new building of the Deliberative Council. The emblematic work in this section of the management of Martín Llaryora’s successor in the capital of Córdoba.
For years, the Córdoba municipal Legislature has been located in a rented building in the heart of Córdoba that both councilors from the ruling party and the opposition recognize as “an old warehouse” and criticize for the poor infrastructure conditions to carry out the work. All this, after a history linked to the Cordoban Deliberative Council that accumulated a series of inconveniences that, for years, had the vice mayor and the councilors in different buildings. Among others, in the town hall that will receive President Javier Milei this Saturday.
Perhaps the most complex episode was when it operated in the Garden building in the heart of the capital of Córdoba and a fire broke out in 2005, during the municipal administration of Luis Juez. From that moment on, the different administrations began to talk about the need to build their own place for the Deliberative Council.
Even, in the times of the radical Ramón J. Mestre, former president Mauricio Macri empowered the then vice-mayor Felipe Lábaque with the construction of the municipal parliament on the railroad lands, in the northwest of the capital of Córdoba. In fact, there were media tours at that time that were clearly in tune with Macrism, assessing the possibility of the construction of that building that began to disappear with the 2018 crisis.
First, due to economic issues, and then due to political tensions between Macri himself and the radical Mestre, who never had a good relationship.
With the arrival of Llaryora, and the fine harmony of Cordobanism with the then governor Juan Schiaretti, work began on the possibility of a building in the area of the former Mercado de Abasto, on the banks of the Suquía River and blocks from the Panal and the Unicameral, the provincial government house and the Legislature that make up the Civic Center. With the intention of making a corridor.
The Council has been located for years in a rented building in the heart of Córdoba that both councilors from the ruling party and the opposition recognize as “an old warehouse” and criticize for the poor infrastructure conditions to carry out the work.
The project took shape with Passerini as vice mayor and the management of Daniel Rey in Urban Development in the previous management, in addition to the influence of Diego Peralta, president of the College of Architects and who assumed the position of Rey within Passerini’s cabinet.
The work consists of 10 thousand covered meters, a five-story building whose work is awarded to a joint venture composed of Roggio-Riva and an investment that, more than two years ago when the work was reactivated and without redeterminations, was planned for more than 2,700 million pesos.
When he took office, Passerini planned to inaugurate the new building on March 1 at the opening of ordinary sessions of the Deliberative Council. Finally, it did not happen and the vice mayor Javier Pretto confirmed several weeks ago that the inauguration will take place on July 6, the anniversary of the founding of Córdoba.
However, according to what official sources confirmed to LPO, it would arrive with the premises that are already in condition, but not with the offices of the vice mayor and the councilors due to a delay in the furniture bidding documents. Reason why, some weeks the councilors would maintain their meetings and their offices in the current building. “We are going to have the winter break that will help us get there with the times,” a Council source told this site in recent days.
“It is delayed due to the issue of furniture. It is a bidding process that has its deadlines and is a national public tender. It will be held in the new venue and then the rest will be there,” said a source about the delay. And he added that “the tender is national, the specifications were being finalized to arrive in a timely manner.”
