The long coveted project of the Lisbon Chamber to convert the South Station and Southeast in a “terminal maritime leisure activity” will finally materialize. According to the director general of the Tourism Association of Lisbon, Vítor Costa, it is about an investment of around seven million euros, which should be completed “by the end of next year.”
“it is the missing piece in the larger project of redevelopment of the riverfront between the Cais do Sodre and Santa Apolonia,” said the mayor of Lisbon. Fernando Medina the transfer of the authority of the state property, which was formalized in a public ceremony held on Wednesday, is “the beginning of the end of the comprehensive renewal process several kilometers of riverfront.”
in his speech, the mayor referred to the South Station and Southeast, which was hitherto in the hands of the CP and that was long closed and no use, as “a stain, a stain, a wound”. Two years ago, also his predecessor had referred to the work of Cottinelli Telmo in identical terms: “It’s a black mark that persists in Terreiro do Paco. It’s a shame for the city state in which the state is to maintain this building of great architectural value, “said António Costa in November 2014, when he made it known that he intended to finance the setting in place of a” maritime gare -turística “with funding from the Municipal Tourist fee.
This Wednesday, the one to talk about the investment that will be made in upgrading the building opened in 1932 was the managing director of ATL, the entity to which the new management will be entrusted ” terminal maritime leisure activity “. According to said Vítor Costa, is concerned an amount of seven million euros that the association, “at the behest of the camera, will bring together and mobilize.”
The Director General of ATL stressed that this amount includes not only the intervention in the property (according to a draft Ana Costa, Cottinelli Telmo’s granddaughter), but also the upgrading of the surrounding public space ( “to the threading of the Turret Rising”) and the area between the river and the season. The architect Bruno Soares, author of the controversial proposal that was realized in the Palace Square and the one that is running at Cais do Sodre, will be responsible for project of public space.
As explained Vítor Costa in inside the building, which is classified since 2012 as a Public Interest Monument, what is intended is to promote a restoration according to the original design, operation will include the removal of “all additions of later times.” The tiles will be returned to the walls which are now bare and will be made to “structural consolidation” of the old river station.
The future of space occupation program includes on-site installation of two restaurants and ticket offices of the companies which wish to develop their maritime leisure activity. It will also be created a store “regional products of Lisbon” and abroad will be terraces, which as noted by Victor Costa will be subject to “a project of equipment and special furniture.”
The Director General of ATL he explained that will be kept after “recovered” the two existing piers, which can be used for “larger vessels such as ferries.” Planned is the construction of a third pontoon, dedicated to “smaller vessels,” as “traditional boats or sailing.”
Also contemplated in this intervention, Vítor Costa believes could be completed “at the end of next year “are the” completion of the redevelopment of the Pier Columns “with” remove “the now existing landfill and the” reconstruction of the wall of the loveseats. ” ATL also intends to “increase the green space” and bet on “pedestrian and bike paths” to promote Terreiro link the Palace to the Field of onions and the new terminal of Santa Apolonia cruises.
For mayor of Lisbon, the transformation of the South Station and Southeast in a “terminal maritime leisure activity” is an investment “of strategic importance”. “It will be born here a new polarity of the river,” summarized Fernando Medina, noting that the new equipment may from vessels that traverse the riverfront to Bethlehem and the Park of Nations, as well as boats that unite the two banks of the Tagus.
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