Constructora Sambil reported this Friday that it began the adaptation, maintenance and reform work in its shopping center located in the La Candelaria parish of Caracas, following the Venezuelan authorities returned it to its owners 13 years following Hugo Chávez ordered to expropriate it.
“We want to inform you that the adaptation, maintenance and reform work has already begun, both in the building and in the commercial premises, common areas and parking lots,” the company said in a statement. a statement released on their social networks, thus officially confirming the information that had circulated hours before.
He pointed out that this week the reception was finalized and the consolidation process of a “commercial mix and services, aimed at serving and satisfying the needs of the populous and beloved community” of La Candelaria was restarted.
Constructora Sambil said that it published the statement due to the numerous calls and expressions of interest they received trying to confirm the veracity of the information and to inquire regarding the plans of that commercial community from now on.
“We hope to move forward as quickly as possible to be able to start the commercial operation as soon as possible and thus be able to provide the best benefits to our community of users and customers. We are very excited to be able to complete the purpose of service and excellence, which we set out to do since 2006 when we started this extraordinary project”, he said.
Neither clinic nor university
“How is it possible that in the middle of Candelaria they are going to make a Sambil? No no and no. But who can stand the traffic there? Actions must be taken, mayor, that cannot be allowed. There where there is no room for a soul they are doing a Sambil. That is going to collapse the entire center of Caracas. Stop that, Mr. Mayor”, Chavez claimed in 2008 during his program There, President.
At that time it was Jorge Rodríguez, current president of the National Assembly elected in 2020 and considered a promoter of dialogue between sectors, who was in charge of the Mayor’s Office of the Libertador Municipality of Caracas. The now parliamentarian applauded when Chavez demanded the expropriation of the facilities and nodded when he ordered him to stop construction.
“We are going to review all of that. We are going to expropriate it and turn it into a clinic, in a school, in a university. How are we going to make socialism by handing over the vital spaces of the people to the Sambil or to that excessive and consumerist trade?”, expressed the late president.
But for the Sambil there were many projects that did not materialize. Jacqueline Faría, former head of the Government of the Capital District, suggested in 2010 that the space house a convention center. The cultural and commercial center that former Commerce Minister Isabel Delgado spoke of in 2015 was not installed either.
Alfredo Cohen shows what the Sambil La Candelaria looks like, facilities that returned to the original owners, following the expropriation ordered by Hugo Chávez in 2008.
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