Although a structural report, released in April of this year, stated that the northernmost chimney of the old Peldar factory presents significant deterioration, the Ministry of Culture recently issued a favorable opinion on the heritage component of the Ciudad Peldar partial plan. , for which, among other aspects, all surviving chimneys must be preserved.
The decision is not a declaration of specific protection for chimneys nor does it grant them heritage value; This occurs because they are part of the surroundings of what remains of the Envigado Railway station, a property recognized, yes, as an asset of cultural interest of the nation.
“The Ministry authorized the conservation of the chimneys and works contemplated in the partial plan, such as interventions in pedestrian spaces near the Railway Station House, the avenue and the chimney square,” explained the director of the Administrative Department of Planning. from Envigado, Sergio Ríos Ospina.
In a future to be defined, these works will be carried out by the private developers of the five action units into which Ciudad Peldar is divided, as payment for urban planning obligations. “They will be executed as the partial plan is fulfilled and must have prior approval from the Ministry.”
388 is the number of the Municipal Decree, 2020, which adopted the Peldar Partial Plan.
The same municipal official, authorized spokesperson for the issue, estimated that the intervention in the chimneys would be around $4.4 billion. The historian Edgar Restrepo Gómez, member of the Municipal Council of Culture and the Envigado Heritage Board, saw the news with relative optimism.
“The chimneys will be saved, but we believe that the minimum of what the Ministry and the partial plan asks for will be done. The municipality is not interested, for example, in having chimneys declared as assets of cultural interest in Envigado. We asked for it, but nothing was included in the Development Plan. The update of the POT is under review, but we do not believe that another incorporation of heritage assets will be made, something that has not happened for 23 years. And less for chimneys; “They do not want to start the technical and legal process.”
Restrepo based his skepticism on the fact that he heard the Planning Director of Envigado himself, in a session of the Municipal Council, say that advancing the legal procedure for heritage declaration is very expensive. “They say it is important, but the municipality is not interested in making new declarations because historical and aesthetic assessment studies, among others, are needed. They are not willing to spend a penny on that. In four years, Culture barely has an allocation of $38 billion.”
7.5 hectares covers the land of the old Peldar glass factory.
Living in El Poblado also consulted the Secretary of Culture of Envigado, Lina Vásquez Ángel, who reiterated to us that “everything related to the parameters contained in the Peldar Partial Plan, with the variations that it may have in terms of assets or other areas, has a direct voice in the Administrative Planning Department. We are firmly committed to preserving the heritage and disseminating it.”
For now, event center
Ignacio Acero, artist and manager of Corporación Centauro, an entity dedicated to the management of artistic, cultural and entertainment events, confirmed to Living in El Poblado that had reached an agreement with the developers of the partial plan for Ciudad Peldar to temporarily set up its events center. “We had it for a while in Parque Norte, near the Regional. Now we go to Envigado. It is a huge removable structure, with an area of 2,500 square meters. We will be in the western part, near the Metro, for two years, until the delivery of the first apartments begins.”
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