The revitalization of the area surrounding the El Diamante café, in the provincial capital, is the most important urban renewal project carried out in the last three decades in one of the busiest areas of the Sosa district, northwest of the largest city in Las Tunas.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- The task included the reopening of the railway crossing that restored vehicular traffic between Roger Humberto Peña and Emilio González streets, which cost over 13 million pesos. It involved the clean-up of an area that had become one of the worst solid waste dumps in this part of the Capital of Cuban Sculpture.
Also noteworthy was the major renovation of the aforementioned iconic commercial establishment, which, after five years of inactivity, resumed commercial operations, now attached to the El Reymar business unit. The comfort of non-state commercial establishments and the local dining hall belonging to the Family Care System (SAF in Spanish), which provides two meals a day to low-income citizens, was also improved.
The transformation also included the remodeling of other commercial properties, such as the butcher shop in the agricultural products market and the facades of the surrounding houses, as well as the paving, for the first time in its history, of the section that marks the beginning of the busy Eliécer Botello Street.
Roberto Carlos López Saborit, first secretary of the Party in the capital municipality, highlighted the value of the coordinated effort by institutions and city residents to restore the beauty of the place, all amid the financial shortages suffered by the nation. Now, it is time to preserve what has been achieved with quality services and the cooperation of the entire community, he said in his closing remarks at the ceremony held next to the plaque that pays tribute to José Fernández, one of the martyrs from Las Tunas who fell in the struggle for the definitive liberation of the nation.
Representatives of the Provincial Delegation of Urban Planning and Land Management noted that what has been done so far is part of a much broader program to rescue the urban values of an area that includes the vicinity of the Libertad sawmill.
