They ask for the restoration of the former Central Post Office and seek to make it a new space for society

Wednesday 6/26/2024

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Next Thursday the 27th, at 11, A new symbolic embrace will be made to the former Central Post Office. This building, located on Avenida 27 de Febrero and Cortada Falucho, is considered a national heritage site. And 20 years ago, on June 17, 2004, a first symbolic hug was held to protest its deterioration. “Today we take up the flag of those people whom we join and we are going to accompany them,” said Graciela, one of the participants.

The District 1 College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Ombudsman’s Office are calling for this symbolic embrace, while they will accompany the city’s provincial music and ballet schools. The call is under Ordinance No. 12784 in the catalog of assets of the city’s Urban Architectural Heritage and is based on wanting to recover the building that is an exponent of modern architecture, just as happened with the Belgrano Station or the Central Post Office of the city of Hope.

Due to lack of maintenance, the venecitas – the small mosaics that adorned the building – gradually fell down, leaving the old façade exposed. Today, a Correo Argentino branch operates on the ground floor. Although years ago there were offices transferred to Anses and others to the Ministry of Economy of the Nation, currently the remaining 7 floors are completely abandoned.

In this call, there are several institutions that will “embrace” the property in search of transforming the abandoned building into a new place for society. The Provincial School of Music Choral Institute No. 9,900 (located on the 2nd floor of the Sarmiento Educational Complex), No. 9901 “Children and Youth Orchestra” (the only one with its own headquarters in Gobernador Candioti 1954), No. 9902 CREI ( It operates in a classroom of the National School, entering at 3020 Salta Street) and the ballet of the Provincial Cultural Center of the city suffer from the lack of space to carry out their activities and part of this building could be of great help.

“Between all the schools we have 1,700 students and we have severe building problems. We are schools that are more than 60 years old,” she told El Litoral Graciela Plank, co-director of the Provincial Music School No. 9901 “Children and Youth Orchestra.”

Most schools It does not have its own building and the number of students increases day by day: “At first it was very small when there were 30 or 50 students; Currently we have 480. Added to the teaching and non-teaching staff, we are a community of approximately 540 people”detailed the co-director.

He also explained that age “They range from 8 years old to more than 20. Therefore, they all live in an old house in which bathrooms are shared, the walls are cracked and have not been painted since 2008 despite millions of notes submitted. There is also no ramp, we have a top floor and there is no elevator or forklift to carry the instruments”. Also, Plank referred to the Provincial School of Music No. 9902 “CREI” and regretted that “they are very precariously in a classroom. The kids are eating in the hallways, on the floor, the way we work is chaotic.”

Looking to the future, the co-director of the children’s orchestra dreams of a space for the provincial music and ballet schools, since the glass part of the ground floor would be an ideal space to hold an auditorium.either. “A place is needed in Santa Fe where there are public shows. As a first instance, we were thinking of creating an auditorium on the ground floor that would be related to all our schools and our activities. “It would be a great first step.”