The neighbours of Son Sardina explode against Cort for the sale of the Can Pesquet plot: "It is an absolute sign of contempt"

PalmaThe residents of Son Sardina have exploded against the Palma City Council after the real estate company Solvia sold the Can Pesquet plot to a private individual, a space that the neighborhood has been claiming for years to turn it into a square and a community center. "We are facing an absolute display of contempt," they lamented. The popular assembly of Son Sardina and la Garriga assures that the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, knows "how important this plot is" for the neighborhood and recalls that they have carried out mobilizations and various protest actions before different government teams to demand more public spaces. According to their complaint, this lack of space even makes it difficult to hold the neighborhood festivals every year. This very Tuesday, the Palma council emphasized that they have been in talks with the current owner for months and that if an agreement is not reached, they will end up expropriating the property.

The neighbors especially criticize that during the last year Cort has not given them concrete explanations about the future of the plot and, according to them, has limited itself to arguing that negotiations were underway. Now they consider that Solvia's decision to sell the property to a private investor "speaks very badly of the real effort" that the City Council has dedicated to resolving the situation.

In this regard, they accuse Martínez of not wanting to face a possible expropriation and denounce what they consider a "disregard" for the historical claims of Son Sardina and all of Palma's neighborhoods.

"All the energy to tourist macro-projects"

"The mayor dedicates all his energy to tourist macro-projects such as the purchase of Gesa and makes large investments in the maritime facade; meanwhile, he leaves the neighborhoods in the hands of speculators," they point out. The entities also reproach Cort that, according to their version, in Son Sardina he only intervenes when "it is a matter of censoring popular organization and culture, as he does against the life of the center, not to solve problems he has promised to solve".

Faced with this situation, the neighbors demand that the City Council "immediately" acquire the Can Pesquet plot and launch the project to turn it into a square and a center. They consider it insufficient that Martínez limits himself to stating that Can Pesquet "will be public without a date or concrete details". For this reason, they have announced possible mobilizations in the coming days and have called on neighbors to organize themselves to pressure Cort.

Cort will resort to expropriation if there is no agreement

For its part, the Palma City Council assures that it is negotiating with the new owner and that, if there is no agreement, it will resort to expropriation. Martínez has once again reiterated the commitment that Can Pesquet will be public. The mayor has assured that Cort is "in the process of reaching an agreement to acquire the plot" and has emphasized that the objective is to make it available to the neighbors to cover the neighborhood's equipment needs.