News in the rehabilitation of the Alicante Main Theater after years of waiting. This Wednesday the City hall has made public the evaluation of the offers in the Hiring Table to draft the roadmap reform of cultural equipmentwhich amounts to 126.575 euros (adding taxes) according to the proposal of the UTE (Temporary Business Union) formed by the architectural firm Galiano Garrigós and consulting Ipydoboth established in Alicante.
The execution period will be six months since the award. This stage is one step away after the local government has evaluated the offers presented. In total there were eight applicants, and the second best valued was that of Management Solutions 4 Construction SLa company based in Madrid and that it had proposed a price slightly lower than that of the best positioned UTE.
The offers of Architecture and Urbanism Estudio Boixsettled in El Campello; José María Forteza Oliver and the other UTE is made up of Carlos Corredera Arques y Natan Quesada Sánchez. These five proposals, according to the council, have complied with the specifications.
At the same time, there have been three aspiring companies that have been excluded by the City Council for disproportionate low after considering, according to the file, that they have not justified the proposed financial amount, in all three cases less than 113,000 euros when the tender budgetincluding taxes, was close to 150,000 euros. These companies are Andrés Martínez Herrero SL, Climb Architecture Studio and the study Blackonblue.
The project
The writing of the Plan Director to rehabilitate the Principal Theater will serve to “establish guidelines and necessary actions for the conservation, restoration and use of the building,” the City Council explained. The bread will have to include “a detailed analysis of the current state of the historical monumentidentifying problems, risks and needs for action, identifying and proposing short, medium and long-term solutions in a planned and coordinated manner.
According to the Councilor for Culture, Nayma Beldjilali (PP), “the first thing” to execute this plan will be the pit and the restoration of the facade“when considering the most urgent measures.” Regarding the restoration of the façade, the “injuries and defects” adjacent to the road and public areas will be analyzed “in depth” and the necessary works will be planned.
Regarding the improvement of the spectator room, its configuration and conditions will be updated to “respond to the demands of public comfortrespecting the historical values of the property and its own characteristics, the City Council explains.
Delays
The announcement to rehabilitate the Principal Theater of Alicante came this month of August when the preparation of the Master Plan was put out to competition after an agreement from the Local Government Board. This news came after seven years of waiting, since in 2018 the Generalitatthen in the hands of botanistreceived three million euros to renovate the equipment, which is owned equally by the autonomous institution, the City Council and the Sabadell Bank.
The seven-year-old injection has since been blocked by the executive of Luis Barcalawhich required the banking entity to make a written commitment to contribute its corresponding part for the rehabilitation. Last year the approval came from Sabadell and, with it, the City Council announced the unblocking of the procedures to rehabilitate the Teatro Principal, which has 178 years of history and has capacity for 1,072 spectators.
In the last Debate on the State of the city, held on October 13, the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, cited the rehabilitation of the Principal Theater as one of his objectives along with other projects such as the rehabilitation and improvement works in the Santa Barbara Castle or the remodeling of the old Abaseis cinemas.
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