Central Avenue renovation 98% complete

PANAMA’S acting Mayor  Raisa Banfield has ambitions to step from her elected role as deputy mayor into the shoes of incumbent Jose Blandon who is currently focusing on his bid to become the Panamenista presidential candidate.

Banfield is busy trying to ease citizen (voter) concerns over delayed city construction projects.

The first explanations dealt with the overdue facelift of Calle Uruguay, in what was once dubbed the entertainment district.

Presentations and apologies over flood-prone Via Argentina followed, and on Thursday, October  4 it was time for a final inspection of long-delayed Central Avenue, from 5 de Mayo plaza to Avenue Santa Ana,  said to be 98% ready.

The  $100 MIllion revitalization program includes concrete benches, garden areas, trash baskets and devices  for people with visual disability

Next comes the burial of telephone and electrical cables and the removal of their posts.

Banfield said that the public space, that has been renovated once a tourist low priced shopping Mecca should keep the mall feature open.

Asked about of peddlers who one the area she said that what is wanted is that once the work is delivered, kiosks be built in the center of the pedestrian walkway so that some of them return to the area.

The project is scheduled for opening in the first quarter of thronged  2019 – a few weeks before the elections