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[DieQro]

Originally Posted by langner

El render correspondiente:

[FMOR]

muy bonito diseño lastima la miniatura que es

[DieQro]

Si caray, pero me gusta la variedad de diseño que estamos viendo por toda la ciudad, no solo cajas blancas, me agrada mucho las fachadas en negro de este proyecto y de New Soho por ejemplo

[langner]

Desde esta zona comenzara un corredor hasta Juriquilla, de mi se acuerdan

[DieQro]

Unos pequeños, no se su ubicación, están en preventa y al parecer se llaman Vista Dorada, así que puede que estén en la zona de Milenio-Loma Dorada...

[pac_god]

Un articulo muy bueno de un diario canadiense.



Mexico Election: Queretaro, where a clean sweep doesn’t refer to a drug war


QUERÉTARO, MEXICO—This central Mexican city gained international notoriety earlier this month, but it wasn’t for what you might think in a country notorious for illegal drugs and violent crime.

No headless corpses turned up in the trunks of cars abandoned along the stately cobbled streets of old Querétaro. No cadavers appeared at dawn, dangling by the neck from highway overpasses. No one was killed or even injured.

Instead, a civic-minded international organization based in Madrid honoured Querétaro with the highest prize at its behest — the coveted Escoba de Platino.

That means: the Platinum Broom.

In other words, Querétaro is now famous for being exceptionally, even obsessively … clean.

To all those readers who might have been expecting something a bit more dramatic, not to say gruesome: sorry.

But there’s something to be said for a little tidiness and order, as Mexicans prepare for presidential elections this Sunday against a backdrop of organized crime and sometimes shocking violence — issues that weigh heavily on voters in many parts of the land.

Exhausted by their country’s bloody but indecisive war on drugs, Mexican voters seem ready to throw out the right-leaning National Action Party that has held the presidency for the past 12 years, probably to replace it with the venerable but authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated this country for seven long decades till surrendering power in 2000.

What Mexicans want most is peace.

Here in Querétaro, they already have it — plus excellent sanitation, too.

“They say Querétaro is one of the cleanest cities anywhere,” says Marco Del Prete, head of sustainable development for the municipal government. “People put garbage in the bins. The trucks come twice a week to collect the garbage. It’s a cultural phenomenon.”

Tidy streets are not exactly what most people outside Mexico first think of when they contemplate this country of 114 million, where roughly 55,000 human beings have been slain in drug-fueled violence during the past six years alone.

Yet this quiet and orderly city, steeped in history and blessed by geography, is probably no less representative of everyday life in Mexico, circa 2012, than are the crime-stricken municipalities along the country’s border with the United States or the seaports of Acapulco and Veracruz, all now haunted by well-armed drug cartels and trigger-happy police.

“Everything is tranquil here,” says María Catalina Escamilla Luna, 58, one among a small army of orange-clad street cleaners who daily patrol the plazas, avenues, and sidewalks of Querétaro, wielding brooms fashioned from tree branches rather than from platinum. “There’s a lot of security.”

The question is why.

Why does this city of 800,000 remain peaceful and more or less narcotics-free, while other inland towns — Morelia or San Luis Potosí, for example — are mired in organized crime?

Nearly everybody here has a theory or two, some of them fatuous and at least one of them truly bizarre, although possibly true.

But, first, some statistics.

Last year, the state of Querétaro, which contains the city whose full name is Santiago de Querétaro, had the third-lowest murder rate among Mexico’s 32 states, with just 5.4 homicides per 100,000 population.

(By way of comparison, the annual homicide rate in Canada is 1.8 per 100,000 population.)

Querétaro’s score was bettered only by the states of Hidalgo (4.2) and Yucatán (2.4), according to Mexico’s Centre for Analysis of Public Policy.

The country’s most violent state by far was deadly Chihuahua (89.2), a northern territory that contains Ciudad Juárez, infamous for its gang wars, decapitated corpses, and multiple homicides.

All those horrors seem a long way from Querétaro, because they are.

“This is one of the most secure cities in Mexico,” says retiree Antonio Barsena, who is relaxing with his wife Mariela in the Plaza Zeneya, a gorgeous public space arrayed around a wrought-iron bandstand and ornamented with decorative trees — Indian laurel, ash, and ficus. “There are jobs. There’s a lot of industry.”

Thanks to its tranquil atmosphere and its prosperous manufacturing economy (including a large Bombardier Aerospace factory), Querétaro is attracting plenty of newcomers, many of them fleeing the violence in other parts of the country.

Located just two hours north of Mexico City by road, Querétaro also increasingly lures harried capitalinos for weekend getaways in one or another of the many boutique hotels that have sprouted here in recent years, mostly quartered in centuries-old colonial houses on cobbled streets flanked by sunburnt stucco facades painted in shades of ochre and orange.

The city thrives on the arts and just wrapped up hosting its annual seven-day International Festival of the Violin.

On one evening during the festival, local music lovers crammed the 19th-Century Theatre of the Republic as the Orquesta Filharmónica de Querétaro performed works by Aranda, Prokofiev, and Mussorgsky, with violinist Shari Mason — Mexican-born, despite her name — as soloist.

Boasting some 70 colonial churches, not to mention myriad leafy, tiled plazas and pedestrian malls, the city’s historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has been beautifully preserved.

Of course, most of Querétaro’s inhabitants live in the modern and much less romantic barrios that have ballooned around the antique core — but these neighbourhoods, all with running water and electricity, are mainly peaceful, too.

Predictably, the politicians credit themselves for this happy state of affairs.

On a recent weekday morning, many of the most powerful individuals in the state gathered atop the Hill of Bells to mark the 145th anniversary of the day in 1867 when an Austrian noble — Maximilian von Hapsburg — was executed at this site, an event that brought an end to the French occupation of Mexico.

After the ceremony, several of the dignitaries paused to talk to a visiting reporter and to reflect on the question, Why is this city so safe?

Their answers were fairly predictable.

Luís Alfonso García Alcocer, president of the Querétaro State Business Centre: “Here, the three levels of government and the army and the police are well-coordinated to maintain control of evils.”

Mauricio Salmon Franz, state secretary of tourism: “When a state creates well-paid jobs, the criminals cannot enter.”

Arsenio Durán, state prosecutor: “The authorities here, at all levels, we work in a very co-ordinated manner. We make a common front.”

José Gerardo Quirarte Pérez, director-general of the state agency for civil protection: “What interests us is the citizen. We are all querétanos.”

Gracias, caballeros.

Other, less influential individuals tend to offer less self-serving theories.

Barsena, the Querétaro retiree, suggests that the mountains surrounding the city are not suitable for the cultivation of marijuana, and so an illicit drug industry and its associated criminal culture never got started here.

Ángela Moyano, a local historian, thinks the city’s tranquility is at least partly a matter of geography.

“We’re right in the middle of the country,” she says, “so we have to get along with everyone.”

A local hotelier takes this idea even further.

“This is a city of traitors,” she says, only half-joking. “We take the side of whatever party is in power.”

She may have a point.

Although Querétaro played prominent political roles in the Mexican struggle for independence from Spain in the early 1800s and also during the Mexican Revolution a century later, it rarely was the scene of serious fighting itself.

So maybe these wily querétanos are somehow managing to pull off the same trick yet again.

But how?

During almost any conversation on the subject, it is not long before a city resident will lower his or her voice and darkly mention what many here suspect is the real reason for Querétaro’s remarkable peace.

It seems that the leaders of Mexico’s several drug cartels — otherwise notorious for their mutual hatred — have somehow reached an agreement to spare lovely Querétaro so that their families and loved ones can live here in clandestine safety.

Many people here even insist they know where these narco-families now dwell — in a luxurious new gated community recently constructed on the outskirts of town.

Called El Campanario, the development sprawls over 550 hectares and boasts an 18-hole, par-72 golf course, as well as five tennis courts, two semi-Olympic swimming pools, a water-treatment plant, and 24-hour uniformed security.

Could the rumours be true?

“It’s an urban legend, a myth,” scoffs a taxi driver as he deposits a reporter near the entrance to the community. “But it could be true.”

That’s what many here say.

“Cuando el río suena, es que agua lleva,” says another resident of the city, quoting a Mexican proverb that means “When the river makes noise, it must carry water” — roughly equivalent to “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Fire there may be, but security seems in short supply.

Vigilance at El Campanario is so lax that a lone reporter on foot has no trouble eluding the uniformed guards at the entrance post and proceeding inside, to spend a half-hour strolling around the grounds on his own, snapping photographs of the artificial lakes, the elaborate gardens, the weeping willows, and the truly palatial homes.

Later, his departure goes undetected as well.

It’s difficult to imagine that ruthless drug-running outfits such as the Sinaloa Cartel or La Família Michoacana would long put up with a set-up like that.

In the end, the likeliest explanation for Querétaro’s climate of peace is the simplest.

Like other tranquil parts of the country, this city may just happen to lie at a safe distance from any of the established routes used by the drug clans to move narcotics north to the United States.

In other words, a question of luck.

But take a little luck and add a lot of tidiness, and what you get is Querétaro — a beautiful refuge in a troubled land and a fine place to call home.



http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...-drug-war?bn=1

[DieQro]

Ya vieron los espectaculares de New Soho? que bien se ven, y tienen que apurarse a vender porque La Victoria, seguramente llegara con mucho mejores precios y el plus de un gran centro comercial de buen nivel...

[guyqro98]

Originally Posted by DieQro

Ya vieron los espectaculares de New Soho? que bien se ven, y tienen que apurarse a vender porque La Victoria, seguramente llegara con mucho mejores precios y el plus de un gran centro comercial de buen nivel...

pues yo le veo sus ventajas y desventajas a este complejo de la Victoria y el New Soho, q llegaran a congestionar aun mas la transitada av. constituyentes, los semaforos no daran abasto para la cantidad de gente que vivira ahi, las ultimas veces que he ido al centro a sido muy dificil, casi imposible hayar estacionamiento, las filas cada vez crecen mas por eso yo apoyaría estos nuevos proyectos pero en áreas fuera del centro historico, como Centro Sur, Juriquilla, o Zibata. De ahi en fuera todo lo veo bien. Se supone que el Centro no se podian hacer construcciones por ser patrimonio mundial no.

[FMOR]

Re-densificando los centros de las ciudades provoca que el tiempo de traslado de las personas hacia sus trabajos sea por lo general menor, lo que provoca menos tráfico, si hubiera mas gente viviendo en el centro de la ciudad y no en las orillas, el tráfico en la ciudad sería mucho menor, simplemente no se haría el tráfico mortal que se hace en 5 de feb. de toda la gente que viene desde las zonas norte y poniente de la ciudad.

[langner]

+1
Esto aunado a un buen sistema de trasporte masivo (como el Metrobus) y una red de ciclovias y pasos peatonales crean una ciudad sustentable

[Pidrovati]

Así como va la cosa que no nos extrañe que Chufani salga con alguna de sus soluciones faraonicas y poco esteticas, como poner un segundo piso en Corregidora y Juarez

[ATMillenia]

Armadora de BRP en Querétaro

Las negociaciones con Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP) tomaron la recta final y, de concretarse, en Querétaro se instalaría su primera armadora de productos recreativos.

Marcelo López Sánchez, subsecretario de Desarrollo Económico de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Sustentable del estado (Sedesu), informó que las negociaciones van avanzando de forma positiva para que la empresa se instale en la entidad...

dbecerril@eleconomista.mx
http://eleconomista.com.mx/estados/2...-brp-queretaro

[DieQro]

Mientras tanto, en New Soho...



Vaya cambiazo que le vino a dar este desarrollo a esa banqueta de Constituyentes, que no era fea, sino lo que le sigue!



Alguien lleva la cuenta de los Starbucks?

[AVORER]

Veamos, tenemos el de Galerías, Los Arcos, Boulevares, Jardines, Urban Center Jurica, no recuerdo otro.

Mmm... sería el 6to???

[guyqro98]

Con urban juriquilla serán 7, mas faltan el 8 y 9 en antea y en central park.

[Qrofan2010]

Y urban la gota y empresalia....

[Tinieblas]

según yo solamente hay 5 sucursales, no hay 9....

En un futuro a lo mejor va a haber 9 pero si salgo HOY de mi casa y quiero ir por un Starbucks solamente puedo ir a comprarlo en 5 lugares....

[AVORER]

Exacto!!!

[Vicus27]

Originally Posted by Tinieblas

según yo solamente hay 5 sucursales, no hay 9....

En un futuro a lo mejor va a haber 9 pero si salgo HOY de mi casa y quiero ir por un Starbucks solamente puedo ir a comprarlo en 5 lugares....

serían 9, pero en un futuro, nadie dijo que ya sean ahorita 9. Saludos.

[Qrofan2010]

En un futuro serán 11....