Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo assures Penasco is here to stay as it undoubtedly has a tremendous future. With this in mind, he stated, he will continue to put his bets on this tourist destination.

Bours made these remarks upon the occasion of the inauguration of the first phase of the Hacienda de Cortez housing subdivision, which includes 560 homes and represents an investment of 150 million pesos.

In a ceremony held at the new housing development, located at kilometer 88 of the penasco-sonoyta highway, the sonoran head of State delivered Rogelio Mendez, Abisai Garcia and Arturo Loreto deeds to their new social interest homes in the suvdivision. Begun in June 2008, the project envisions the construction of a total of 2 thousand homes.

Bours Castelo emphasized the delivery of these 560 houses in one more example of the join work of the government with the private sector to better the living conditions of the people of Penasco.

The national subdirector of the regional offices of the National Institute for the Housing of Workers (Infonavit), Victor Eduardo Perez Orozco, emphasized there are advances in housing in the city due to the coordinated work of the three levels of government with investors.

In this manner, he added, Penasco now welcomes new housing development, which is very important as it is the municipality with the greatest demand in this realm.

792,000 pesos to be used to replace dirt floors with concrete: Seeking social equity.

With the objective of attaining social equity, a recent announcement outlined the planned use of $792,100 pesos to replace dirt floors with concrete ones in 400 homes in outlying areas of the city.

Within the framework making Governor Bours Castelo's twentieth official visit to the area, the training workshop entitled ?A paso firme? served as the venue for the presentation of funds that will benefit families of limited means.

Governor Eduardo Bours, accompanied by major Raul Contreras and Heriberto Renteria, from sonoyta and penasco respectively, head up the event announcing that 2,268 families from the areas of Caborca, San Luis rio Colorado, sonoyta and Penasco are set to benefit from these founds.

Mrs. Elizama Sanchez took advantage of the opportunity to speak about the work of Governor Bours as a frined and as a human being concerned with resolving the needs of Sonoran families.

He stressed that while the state government is interest in large infrastructure construction, like the coastal highway, it is also interested in plans to achieve social equity and this is what the program a paso firme is about.

Author: Steve Schwab