The Campus of Justice, a verbose project that was going to have 15 buildings
with the seal of the most avant-garde architects and that it would cost
approximately EUR 500 million, will continue to be a wasteland to the north of
Madrid, in the area of Valdebebas. The Executive of Ignacio González (PP) agreed
last July 31, in their last meeting before the break in August, the dissolution
of the public company that it was going to promote. The Department of Economy
and Finance so reported to the Assembly of Madrid this Monday, as recorded in
the Parliament. The former regional, Esperanza Aguirre raised in 2004, in the
first legislature of its mandate (2003-2012), group the judicial organs of the
region in an area of more than 200,000 square meters with good communications,
because it would be next to the airport of Madrid Barajas Airport and just 10
minutes from the plaza de Castilla. Those were the times of the economic boom
and the plan was, no more, no less, to concentrate the 19 existing judicial
offices in the autonomous community - thus contributing to the speed of the
system, since all the strata legal would be together and not scattered - in
which would be the largest complex in Europe. Ten years later, the Institute of
Legal Medicine, whose cost was 19.3 million and is popularly known as the Donut
by its peculiar figure, is the only futuristic building that campaign in place,
which has more of a dry land that campus. This closed. Autonomic budgets for
this exercise provided for losses of 98,500 euros in this mercantile society,
slightly below the previous year (144,505 euros). The red numbers also marked
the result of exploitation, with a loss of 100,000 euros according to the Madrid
government projections of this course, compared to the negative balance of
156,155 euros in 2013. The section on staff there has been no cost in 2014, with
the 26,155 euros of the previous year (20,119 euros in wages and salaries; the
rest is payment of social security paid for by the company). Compared to the
grandiose predictions that finally did not materialize, the Campus of Justice
had a budget of 100,200 euros for 2014 (158,505 in 2013). In the case of a
commercial company 100% owned by the Community, and therefore be the sole
partner of the same, the General Board of the Campus of Justice is made up
exclusively by the regional government. After years forgotten, the Madrid
government recovered the project in February of 2012. The intention of the
Regional Ministry of Presidency and Justice, then headed by Regina Planiol (El
Salvador Victoria replaced it in September of that year, after the baton of
Aguirre by Gonzalez) was to adapt the original idea with a version of the Ciudad
de la Justicia low cost. All marked by the austerity and without the signature
of the most prestigious architects of the time. This is goodbye to the unique
buildings of international recognition. Something more modest. The revision of
the Campus of Justice was put out to tender for the construction of the
outstanding facilities and manage the complex privatizing for example its
maintenance, cleaning or security. For this reason, the Aguirre still Executive
decided to remove contest both the construction and the management of the future
campus. As you would by about 33 million. The figure was not coincidental:
coincided with the amount that the regional Government paid each year by
one-half of the judicial headquarters under your circle of influence in the
capital. Aguirre pointed out that several investment funds had proposed to build
the buildings and lease them to the Community. The formalities to resurrect the
project should begin once awarded the society of the Campus of Justice. The
expectations of the autonomous government was that the contest should be ready
in 2013, after the economic feasibility studies. However, in November 2012, nine
months after daring to end the City of Justice, the regional Executive concluded
that did not have sufficient funds to move forward with the macro. Gonzalez had
just premiered at the head of the Community with a few cuts of 2,700 million.
"We believe that we have to continue with the regrouping of the court buildings,
but there is no money for investments in new construction," explained then
Victoria, recognizing that his department could not deal with an investment as
the Campus of the Justice, in the worst moment of the crisis to Madrid. The
dissolution of the public enterprise is the latest chapter in a dream that he
was in mirage.
