The Atlas Towera 42-story building being built on the banks of Morazán Boulevard, will place Tegucigalpa on par with large cities in the Central American isthmus.
At 136 meters high, the Atlas Tower – developed by Grupo Celaque – will be the tallest building in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, and will also offer a beautiful panoramic view.
Gustavo Boquín, president of the Honduran Chamber of the Construction Industry (Chico), He explained that modern cities, in addition to being resilient, healthy, clean and pleasant to live in, have to be high, central and dense.
“We have to stop building small houses and go up with apartments, concentrating everything in one place to offer services at a more accessible and efficient cost, as well as dense areas where we can all live together,” he added.
According to the engineer, vertical projects also energize the secondary real estate market, and they are also good for the municipality because on a piece of land with a single cadastral code, the tax collection capacity can be multiplied.
Boquín estimated that vertical works ensure that the value of stagnant land can be averaged over more units and that generates stable costs, while on the consumer side, if more vertical works are generated at some point, dependency will be avoided. vehicular.
“In Mexico, where there are verticalized areas, people practically do not have cars, everything is close by, it is like a small city within a big city,” he concluded.
Sources of employment in Honduras
Adolfo Lagos, head of the Construction Control Management of the capital’s mayor’s officeexplained that works like Atlas Tower They are a source of direct and indirect jobs that benefit everyone from bricklayers to merchants who sell food to workers.
“It is a very large source of jobs, we understand that it is one of the tallest buildings in Central America, it will be taller than those in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaraguato. It will be a multi-use project, it will have a shopping center, offices and apartments,” he mentioned.
The architect Adolfo Salgado revealed that through agreements with those developing the project that will be a “mini-city”, there will be a bay so that vehicular mobility is not hindered by the reduction of the median without damaging the trees, since “the “The builder committed to carrying out road mitigation works.”
