Nacho Cano abandons the project to build a theater in Hortaleza and moves it to Ifema

• Hortaleza Neighborhood protest against Nacho Cano’s theater: “It is a cacicada and an absolute barbarity”

Nacho Cano It has finally given up on its project to build a theater on a plot of the Madrid district of Hortaleza, a decision that it communicated to the City Council of the capital “weeks ago.” In the artist’s environment they point out that, due to the neighborhood protests that his idea had aroused, he considered that he was going to be born “gafada”.

For this reason, the former member of Mecano has chosen to transfer to Ifema his intention to build a temporary structure – initially conceived in the shape of an Aztec pyramid and later a tent – for the programming of his new musical The Malinche, which he has been working on for years. The details of this plan b They have not yet transcended.

The Government of Cibeles will proceed in the next few days to the return of the guarantee that Cano had provided as a step prior to the start of the implementation of the project. Until now, the temporary cession of the use of the 20,000 square meter plot located in the avenue of Machupichu, 30, and the application for the building license was being processed, modified after the design change.

“Unfortunately, the uproar generated by the opposition has caused the City Council to stop entering two million euros that they were going to be charged as a fee for the temporary authorization of the Hortaleza plot, “stressed the Urban Development delegate, Mariano Fuentes, after the Cadena Ser advanced the news.” Sectarianism laminates a new cultural pole in the districts, “he added.

However, the mayor of Ciudadanos values ​​that Nacho Cano’s musical remains in the capital, although with a change of venue: “Being a cultural show that contributes to continue positioning Madrid as the main reference in southern Europe. The most important thing is that the creators they keep betting on our city as a setting for his plays. “

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The spokesperson for Ms Madrid in the City Council, Rita Maestre, has applauded the resignation of the musician to the parcel of municipal property. “Victory of the neighborhood mobilization of Hortaleza before the tricks of Jos Luis Martnez]Almeida. Now all that remains is for the plot to be put at the service of the neighborhood,” he wrote on his Twitter account, reports Europa Press.

Along the same lines, the PSOE spokeswoman, Sea Espinar, has congratulated “all the residents of Hortaleza who have fought and fought”: “I want to think that it is a victory for them but the truth is that there were many shadows in this transfer. The indisputable thing is that the neighbors have been to the height”.

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In the area of ​​Urban Development, they indicate that they will continue working to find a destination for the Hortaleza plot “appropriate to the needs of the city that allows it to be valued after decades of abandonment and disuse.” In that same lot the ventrloquist and businessman Jos Luis Moreno planned to do the Coliseum of the Three Cultures, a monumental building with three floors, capacity for 6,000 spectators and an investment of 164 million euros in which not a single brick was placed.

The theater projected by Cano initially had the form of Aztec pyramid 30 meters high, a courtyard with more than 1,300 seats and a car park with capacity for 400 vehicles. The neighborhood protests such as the one called a month ago, in which the attendees called the project “cacicada” and “absolute barbarity”, have ended up overthrowing it.