2021News

Cristo Park: new recreational area for Cristo Rey

President Luis Abinader was in the slum area of Cristo Rey in the National District for the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Cristo Park. The park is an initiative of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (CAASD), under director Felipe Suberví.

Cristo Park will cost RD$440 million and will be a space for recreation, leisure and natural conservation over an extension of a kilometer and a half. The gully runs through the National Zoo. The park will have a bicycle path, basketball, tennis and soccer courts, a plant nursery, gym devices area, a children’s playground and recreation area, a police station, restrooms and parking for 120 vehicles, and will be fenced.

The President reports the work will benefit more than 350,000 people residing in sectors such as Ensanche La Fe, Cristo Rey, La Agustina, Barrio Obrero, La Puya and Arroyo Hondo.

The park is a follow-up to the cleaning up of the Ozama River that supplies waters to the 80 km of gullies that flow through Cristo Rey and other Greater Santo Domingo neighborhoods.

President Abinader said that his administration is working at double the efficiency of the past government. “We are going to do the 80 kilometers for less than half, for RD$300 million of the RD$750 million that were budgeted when we arrived. We have budgeted to do twice as much for the same amount,” said the President.

He recognized the work of the CAASD team and emphasized that, although the institution has received additional support from the government, it is the savings that are enabling the increase in positive outcomes.

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14 October 2021