Relocation of state offices ready – El Sol de Tijuana

The state government plans to relocate state government offices, currently located on the grounds of the Tijuana Technological Consortium, originally created with federal support for technological research and innovation.

“It’s on loan, it’s not supposed to belong to the state government, this is a building that Conacyt gave money to the state government to use for research and development activities,” said Arturo Espinoza Jaramillo, head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Development Urban and Territorial Reorganization (SIDURT).

According to the Real Estate Registry of the government of Baja California, the Tijuana Technological Consortium has a value of 46 million pesos and an area of ​​50 thousand square meters.

“If the land belongs to the state, the construction belongs to Conacyt,” said Espinoza Jaramillo.

Although before former Governor Jaime Bonilla took the government offices to this place, the facilities were not used due to the lack of a final investment, in the end they are borrowed.

“At any moment Conacyt arrives and tells us: you did not use it for this, pay me,” warned the state official.

In September 2017, the Senate of the Republic exhorted the “Government of Baja California so that, within the scope of its powers, it implements the necessary actions to trigger technological development and innovation through the use of the Baja California Technological Consortium, by virtue that it is a work of about 190 million that is practically not working”.

However, that exhortation was not heeded by the administration of the then governor, Francisco “Kiko” Vega.

On the other hand, his successor Jaime Bonilla Valdez handed over a first building to the Institute of Sustainable Mobility (Imos), in 2020, and a year later he moved five secretariats after donating the previous state offices, located in Zona Río, to the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC).

Regarding the new location, Espinoza Jaramillo mentioned that the decision has not yet been made and some proposals that were presented to the state governor, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, are under analysis.

“We are looking for ways to have more formal offices where officials are concentrated to attend to citizens. Because we have to find a space to identify ourselves with the largest city in the country and with 50% of the state’s GDP”, he concluded.

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