The Mexico City government approved the reconversion of office buildings to residential in ten corridors. This, after the publication of the guidelines in the Official Gazette of the capital.

In said document, the location of the polygons and the roads that will be intervened in the project were specified, among which the following stand out: Historic Center of Mexico City, Santa Fe Zone, Polanco, Granadas, Paseo de la Reforma, the section from Avenida Hidalgo to Fuente de Petróleos and Avenida Revolución in its entirety

They also join the Insurgentes Sur reconversion issue in the section of the Monument to the Caminero at the intersection with the Peripheral Ring, the Insurgentes Centro avenue in its entirety, the Insurgentes Norte avenue in the section of Ribera de San Cosme avenue and Mexico Tenochtitlan to Ricardo Flores Magón and the Peripheral Ring in the sections that are within the Benito Juárez, Coyoacán and  Miguel Hidalgo.

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In addition, it stipulated that the reconversion will not have to be total and the developers will be able to keep 40% of its current use as an office.

The Historic Center polygon is included in other reactivation projects also linked to housing, while the intervention in Santa Fe covers 11 neighborhoods of Álvaro Obregón and Cuajimalpa, contemplated in the Partial Urban Development Program.

As for the Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office, the project covers four neighborhoods in Polanco, which are governed by its Partial Urban Development Program, made up of four office sectors: Anzures, Granadas, Lagos and Traditional.

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For its part, the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing released a series of rules that must be followed by the owners of these empty corporate buildings. The first is that, once remodeled, they cannot be used for vacation purposes, that is, rented on platforms such as Airbnb.

The reason given by the secretary is that the goal will be to reduce the city's housing backlog and generate greater availability of affordable housing, without allowing the demolition of existing buildings or generating extra parking spaces.

Finally, the interior and exterior of the building, which is abandoned, will have to be demonstrated with photographs, where the General Directorate of Urban Planning will be responsible for operating and attending to the reconversion within the project.

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