a picture of the project of what 50th Street will look like that the municipality/mlp is working on
After the renovation of the three central squares, the municipality’s public space renovation plan will now continue the enhancement of the forest. The project, which will begin in the first months of 2026, includes everything from closing the perimeter of the property to widening 50th Street to become an avenue and upgrading its furnishings.
The bet is to highlight the traditional lung of the city in a cultural and leisure center. Especially because in this space there are important emblematic institutions: the Museum of Natural Sciences, the Biopark, the Planetarium and the Teatro del Lago, the most important.
In the case of the biopark, as EL DIA published last week, the former local zoo has been closed to the public since 2018, but before an eventual reopening, according to the municipality, exotic animals still need to be transferred to other protected areas.
As for the Teatro del Lago, the Provincial State is in the process of contracting out the work for its restoration and reopening to the public.
The above-mentioned cultural institutions are linked to the city’s main green areas, which are suffering from decay, where there is no shortage of encroached areas, people living in the sea grotto, vandalism, lack of lighting and the carrying out of attacks in the internal streets.
Given this diagnosis, the municipality will carry out a rehabilitation project in the first months of the year, which will include the construction of a fence around the main perimeter of the property, consisting of Avenues 1 and 122 and 50 and 60. As EL DIA learned, the property would remain closed mainly at night: between 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. and 6 a.m
Fuerza Patria city councilor and former Minister of Planning, Construction and Public Services, Sergio Resa, told this newspaper that the fence erected “will not prevent the entry of cars during the day, but rather will serve to protect the place at night.”
In addition, he explained that there will be “passive and dynamic security”, that is, that surveillance cameras will be installed and that municipal officials will be present who will travel in electric cars, similar to those that already do so in central squares.
EXTENSION OF THE 50TH
As for the traffic that currently circulates on 52nd Avenue, it will be moved to 50th Street, where lanes will be added and it will become two lanes. To make this possible, according to Resa, the widening of this route is planned, along with the relocation of buildings that operate in this place, such as the Scientific Police. In addition, the relocation of about 20 encroached areas is planned, a similar number to that of the families residing on streets 52 and 120 whose houses were relocated to Barrio Nuevo in the area of 516 and 115.
Preparations for the project began when the current city councilor was still in charge of the urban planning department and, as he explained, it would be launched “in the first months of the year”.
This newspaper consulted on the budget for the works. They said the widening of 50th Avenue between 1 and 122, which will have two lanes on each side and a boulevard in the middle, will require about P3.5 billion.
Meanwhile, fencing the forest and renovating its infrastructure, lighting and furniture would cost about P2.5 billion more.
“It is an emblematic place of the city that we want to promote as a Capital of Culture. In addition, it is part of the founding axis, the value of which we have been recovering since the beginning of local administration,” he concluded.
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