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Felipe Ward, Chile’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development, visited the site to check on the progress of the work. A group of authorities and social leaders, led by Chilean Housing and Urban Development Minister Felipe Ward, visited the site whe- re the Mapocho Río Park project is being carried out to check the state of the work, which at the time of the tour was 50% complete. During the visit, the minister highli- ghted the work of the construction company and thanked “all its wor - kers for having started and carried out this project in the middle of the pandemic, with all the difficulties that this entails”. On the other hand, he explained that the park has been “designed, thought out, worked on and built with the neighbours”. “When you make public policy decisions with the citizens, the chances of making a mistake are very low. Citizen par- ticipation is not just an input, it is the soul of any project”. An extension of 52 hectares over 9 kilometres The design of Parque Mapocho Río was the result of more than 2,000 participations in 12 territo- rial dialogues, five consultations in fairs, three workshops with chil- dren and adolescents, and an on- line survey. Mapocho Río is a project that see- ks to recover and revitalise the south bank of this river in the wes- tern sector of the city of Santiago, in the districts of Quinta Normal and Cerro Navia. When the park project is completed, it will cover an area of 52 hectares over a leng- th of 9 kilometres. It is also the largest urban develo- pment plan with green areas con- templated in the current program- me of the Chilean government’s Ministry of Housing and Urban De- velopment and the second largest urban project in the country. FCC Construcción has been awarded the contract for five of the six sec - tions of the park’s development. construction B U S I N E S S 21 B U S I N E S S