New Community Center in Sinaloa to be named “Marco Alonso Verde Álvarez”

Mazatlan. The Mazatlán City Council approved that the Community Development Center located in the Benito Juárez neighborhood, still under construction, be named “Marco Alonso Verde Álvarez” in honor of the feat of the boxer who won a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The boxer known as “El Green” and his trainer Radames Hernández, also received economic incentives of 250 thousand and 100 thousand pesos, from the municipal authorities headed by the substitute mayor Edgar González and councilors.

In the hall of the council chamber, the boxer received his reward and thanked the citizens for the prizes awarded by the mayor and the councillors.

The Olympic silver medalist in boxing from Paris was received this morning at the Rafael Buelna International Airport by family and friends, with banners and flags, and neighbors from the popular Montuosa neighborhood who welcomed him with shouts of “Marco, Marco, rara ra” and “Champion and the pride of Mazatlán”; where “Silver for you will be gold and also for Sinaloa.” Congratulations!

Led by his father, Olympic boxer Samy Verde, a large group of people attended the reception, with a Sinaloa band and also with the assistance of his trainer Redames Hernández and his father, veteran trainer Marcos Hernández.

The Community Center in the Benito Juárez neighborhood, formerly a municipal jail, is one of two that SEDATU is building in neighborhoods with the greatest urban lag in Mazatlán.

The Secretary, Román Meyer Falcon, Secretary of SEDATU, announced it on June 24, 2024, that it is being built with the Urban Improvement Program (PMU) with an investment of 218 million pesos and is part of equipment and public space projects that will support the development and integration of Sinaloa families. that is being built.

The building will consist of four buildings that will house a cultural and performing arts center, an open-air forum, a gym with a weight area, a martial arts dojo-gym, a boxing space, as well as green areas and citizen service offices.

In the afternoon, his neighbors from the La Montuosa neighborhood prepared a great popular celebration to celebrate the distinguished Olympian neighbor.