Despite the promises, they began to demolish the historic Banfield Castle, built in the nineteenth century

In July 2023, Banfield’s neighbors breathed relieved: the municipality of Lomas de Zamora announced in those days that the iconic “Castillo” of Banfield would be turned into a cultural center, moving away the ghosts of an eventual sale and demolition. However, now the reality seems to have hit a turn and in recent weeks the people of the area were organized again after observing that, in the property located in the property located in Larro. Croce, began to dismantle the house for which they fought so much. It is a building built at the end of the 19th century, right in that corner, and that presents an imposing image well known by anyone who lives or visits Banfield. In 2018, the concern of the neighbors climbed because the owner had put it for sale, and people feared that he was delivered for some real estate project that did not contemplate keep it, but to put in their place a new construction, such as those that abound in the city. With the objective of preserving the historical heritage, the group was formed years ago (with a presence on Facebook and Instagram and face -to -face activities) we save the castle of Banfield. But when the fight seemed won and almost two years ago, the construction of a cultural space was announced with bombs and dishes, everything changed recently. Protesta at the doors of the municipality of Lomas in full opening of sessions. In recent months, the neighborhood conservation group warned that it was not working on the property to take care of the building and finally it had been usurped. In August 2024, they denounced this situation in the networks: “At sunset on Tuesday 13 (August), neighbors saw people entering mattresses. They called 911 and the police arrived to try to get them out,” they said. With photos and videos, the neighbors recorded the procedure, in which you could see a woman with a baby and three adult men talking to the agents on the other side of the fence. “Incredulous, we thought it was a misunderstanding for the last attempts to usurp the place and reports of neighbors of a alienated that broke the cars of cars parked on Carlos Croce street,” they said from the neighborhood group. And they continue: “They sent us photos of the place covered with advertising fences.” The most surprised people was that, as they recorded in photos, part of the roof of tiles of the castle had already disappeared. With the storms that were in recent days, the neighbors warn that, thus exposed, the interior of the building will be flooded and deteriorated quickly. “It is the same modus operandi that they made in different houses and then justify demolishing and building buildings from scratch,” they point out. A postal of 1980, when Banfield Castle had another color and in its stairs you get to see people looking closely at the building. From the municipality they told the neighbors that, from 2023 to this part, the panorama changed flatly with the government of Javier Milei. To public works: In other words, there are no funds to specify the project to turn the palace into a cultural center. This situation, as it transpired unofficially, would also have made the bailment that the municipality agreed with the owner and that implied the payment of a rent by the commune to refer and value the place. Given the zonal consultations, the commune did not respond. At the time, the architects who toured the building assured that there was no structural damage and that the spare parts were relatively simple. However, now the owner (or former owner) would be protected by an alleged risk of collapse to accelerate the dismantling of construction. As it transpired in the neighborhood, the owner ended up selling the property, but nobody knows for sure who is currently. The Banfield Historical Studies Board made this sketch imagining how a public space could be around the castle of Banfield. Before this panorama, the neighbors put together several calls and a councilor, Alejandro Trotta of the UCR, presented an appeal to stop the demolition. He received the support of his PAR from the ARI, Jorge Villalba, who published on Twitter: “I will continue to ask the Directorate of Private Works and the Evaluation Commission for the file and documents for which they authorized the demolition when only 9 months before the site was to be used by the municipality and a company was hired to restore it.” The neighbors also made a symbolic hug to the building on Saturday, February 1 to the castle and a concentration in the door of the municipality on March 6. Mayor or any municipal official on the request of the neighbors to stop the demolition. In 80 apples there is neither a square nor a green space of recreation in the blocks that make up Alem and October 12 between Las Heras and Alem Street, “the neighbors point out. At the close of this edition, the neighbors expected a new meeting with the brand new Secretary of Government. But the demolition, as well as things are given, seems unstoppable.

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