Lapa receives a new street built by private companies and an urban park

30/03/2023

Of the total land – which was abandoned – acquired by Mercan, 14,500 square metres were given to the municipality, to be used in the park, which, together with the municipal parcels, will offer the city a green space of 17 thousand square metres. In addition, three thousand square metres have been added, intended for streets that will help with mobility in the central area of the city.

The councillor for Urban Planning considers this as “a virtuous partnership between public interest and private initiative”. In the words of Pedro Baganha, “all this could have happened with public investment, if we had expropriated the land, made the streets and the park, but that would have taken much longer and would have involved significant sums of money”.