Much needed repairs to Panama City’s infrastructure is being addressed in these tenders.

Between 2016 and 2019 the Mayor of Panama will tender construction projects totaling $220 million, of which $90 million will go towards the construction of sidewalks in the city.

New offices in the cemetery of Concepción and sidewalks on via España up until the Cinco de Mayo Plaza are part of the works to be completed in 2016, according to explanations given authorities from the Mayoral office, adding that the list of projects that they plan to develop between 2016 and 2019 will be announced in December and are part of the Action Plan for the City.

Mayor Jose Isabel Blandon “… noted that this plan is the result of a year of working with experts from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which concluded that mobility was one of the issues to be urgently addressed and the only way is with the construction of sidewalks.
The idea is to make the city more pedestrian friendly, since the project includes lighting, tree planting and burying cables, he said. ”

In its list of projects, “… The mayor has works who construction ends the same year that and others will start and others that will continue until 2019. “

Source: Prensa.com