Boulevard of Sabana Grande

Coordinates: 10°29′21″N 66°52′25″W / 10.4892714°N 66.8737124°W / 10.4892714; -66.8737124

Boulevard of Sabana Grande
Sabana Grande
Boulevard of Sabana Grande. Balú H&M shopping
Former name(s) Abraham Lincoln Avenue (50s-1983), Main Street of Sabana Grande (1700s-1950s)
Part of Parroquia El Recreo of Libertador Municipality and Chacao Municipality
Type public space, shopping thoroughfare
Owner PDVSA La Estancia, Caracas Metro, private entrepreneurs
Length 1,5 Km (1,8 Km Luis Brión Square added)
Location Caracas
Quarter City Market Shopping Mall, Banco Unión Building, Banco Mercantil y Agrícola, Radio City, Banco Metropolitano Building, 3H Building, Asunción Building, William Phelps Museum, Centrum Tower, Sabana Grande Business Center, Univel Building, Los Andes Building, Gran Sabana Building, Ben Building, Permontsa Building, Camurí Building, Santa María Building, Banco Venezolano de Crédito Building, Banco de Venezuela Building, Galerías Bolívar, Selemar Tower and others.
Postal code 1050
Nearest metro station Plaza Venezuela Metro Stop, Sabana Grande Metro Stop, Chacaíto Metro Stop
San Antonio neighborhood end Las Acacias Avenue
Quebrada Chacaíto end Plaza Luis Brión (Luis Brión Square)
East Luis Brión Square
West Plaza Venezuela (Venezuela Square)
Construction
Commissioned 70s
Construction start 70s
Completion 1983
Other
Designer PDVSA La Estancia
Known for shopping, tourism, business, financial district
Status completed, active

The Boulevard of Sabana Grande is an important leisure and shopping area located in eastern Caracas in the geographic center of the Metropolitan District of Caracas. It is a pedestrian-only, tree-shaded public space.[1] In 2011, the boulevard of Sabana Grande went through a rehabilitation process, thanks to PDVSA La Estancia.[2] A commercial and financial district, Sabana Grande is the commercial corridor, and a tourist district of Caracas and is visited by an estimated 500 thousand people or more daily.[3] Since the construction of the boulevard, the Sabana Grande district has become the main meeting place of Caracas.[4]. Today, Sabana Grande has stores such as Balú H&M[5], Apolo Shoes[6], Brands Shop (Estivaneli-Alcott)[7] Planeta Sports (Levi's)[8], Angely[9], AISHOP[10], Mango and others. Many important public works of art are displayed along the boulevard and it is considered an open air museum.[11] The boulevard of Sabana Grande is home to the most important ornithological collection in Latin America, the William Phelps Ornithological Collection.[12][13] It is the space preferred by the LGBT community[14][15] and urban tribes. The boulevard of Sabana Grande replaced Abraham Lincoln Avenue.[16] Until the beginning of the 20th century, it was called Calle Real (Royal Street) because it was the town's main road. Sabana Grande was the residence of Jenie Soep Bamberger, one of the most important madams in 20th century Latin America.[17] The first gay march in Venezuela took place in the Sabana Grande district at midnight on June 23, 1997.[18] City Market Shopping Center, known as the technology center of Caracas, is also located here.[19][20] In 2013, Revista Distorxión displayed a guitar autographed by Good Charlotte in the City Market Shopping Mall.[21] The boulevard of Sabana Grande is also considered the main bohemian district of Caracas.[22]

History

Sabana Grande at night (2017)

The boulevard of Sabana Grande was built on what was previously known as Abraham Lincoln Avenue,[23]. The land was ideal for the construction of the Caracas Metro. As early as 1968, El Nacional suggested that the fate of Avenida Abraham Lincoln was to remove cars from the street and turn it over to pedestrians. On February 27, 1968, a whole page of a thesis described the results of an experiment to close the avenue during one whole weekend.[4]

The Caracas Metro was an important work of the democratic period of Venezuela and one of the great achievements of national engineering. In El Nacional on May 25, 1981, Francisco Lara García from Metro de Caracas CA, said that the boulevard was the victim of improvisation. These statements reflect the repeated renovations that the boulevard has experienced throughout its history. The work of the Caracas Metro and the Sabana Grande boulevard is complicated by the geography and topography of Caracas. [4]

The favorable topographic conditions of Sabana Grande, the advantages of transportation that the Caracas Metro would bring, and the strategic location of the sector, suggested the need to build a boulevard in Sabana Grande. Sabana Grande is the location of the main connections of the Caracas Metro system and has three stations: Plaza Venezuela, Sabana Grande and Chacaíto.[4] The Boulevard of Sabana Grande extends from the Los Andes Building to Quebrada Chacaíto, where Chacao Municipality begins.

Cyclists on the boulevard of Sabana Grande (May 2018)

Following the subway project in Caracas, whose construction began in 1975, more Caraqueños (Caracas naives) began to arrive at Sabana Grande, and since then it has become a place of mass recreation. The boulevard of Sabana Grande was built from the surroundings of La Previsora Tower to the Brión Square. It should be noted that the Brión Square of Chacaíto was built as the final leisure space of the commercial and financial district of Sabana Grande, despite being part of Chacao Municipality today. Metro de Caracas was in charge of the construction of the Luis Brión Square.[24] The popularization of the area in the 1980s ushered in the arrival of the informal economy.[25], This did not cause major trouble until the year 2001.[26]

Following the problems between Caracas Metro and Libertador Municipality of Caracas over who had responsibility for it, the boulevard of Sabana Grande was not maintained in the 1990s, but then re-emerged through a series of changes that were applied.[27]. In 1994, the Caracas Metro finally granted the administration of the Boulevard of Sabana Grande to the Libertador Municipality. In 2007, based on the historical value of the Boulevard of Sabana Grande, the Venezuelan government commissioned its recovery to PDVSA and the Libertador Municipality of Caracas.[28][29] In 2001, City Market Shopping Mall was opened[30][31][32] in an attempt to help the Sabana Grande recover, but it did not have great success until 2009 when the rehabilitation of the boulevard had already begun. Today it is one of the most visited shopping malls in Caracas.[20]

Since 2017, medium-high standing stores have started to open in Sabana Grande, as a result of significant improvements the sector has undergone.[33] These stores include: Balú (three stores), Planeta Sports, Angely, AISHOP, Brands Shop, Mango, and many more. Sabana Grande is the pedestrian space with the best stores in Caracas, even though Caracas residents still show a marked preference for New York-style malls. The strategic location of Sabana Grande means that this boulevard is frequented by Venezuelans of all social classes, who can easily travel there thanks to its three subway stations. [34]

Culture

Artwork Anemoi, located in the heart of the boulevard of Sabana Grandein Caracas

The boulevard of Sabana Grande was recently restructured. This commercial corridor has places and buildings of high historical, cultural and patrimonial value, icons of the modern architecture of twentieth century Venezuelan. Among the most important buildings and commercial locations are: the Mercantil y Agrícola Bank building (former headquarters of Key Club),[35]) the Banco Unión Building, the Gran Sabana building (headquarters of the William Phelps Ornithological Collection), the 3H building, the Univel Building (former headquarters of the Banco de Credito Venezolano), the headquarters of the Bank of Venezuela, Centrum Tower, Sabana Grande Business Center, the Banco Metropolitano Building, the Teatro del Este, the Los Andes building, Radio City Building, and many others. PDVSA Centro de Arte La Estancia, in the process of renovating the boulevard in 2011, managed to identify a total of nine heritage properties in the second section of the pedestrian promenade including: Arismendi, Manaure, Araure, Acapulco, Continental, the Assumption, and other buildings. There are many restaurants, pubs and coffee shops, such as: Pizzería Va Bene Sabana Grande, El Rey del Sujuk, Eight Bistro Caracas, and others. Pasaje Asunción and Calle Villaflor in Sabana Grande district are the oldest streets of significance for gays in Caracas.[36][37]

The boulevard of Sabana Grande houses an number of important artworks, among which the following sculptures stand out: Tres Rebanadas en Cubo (2011) by Vicente Antonorsi; Los Petroleros (2010) by Beatriz Blanco; Tajatí (1990) by Lía Bermúdez; Infinite Column (2009) by Joel Casique; Anemoi (2008) by Alberto Cavalieri; Propuesta No. 1 (2011) by Felix George; Columna Barroca (1995) by Carlos Medina;[38] Circuits (2010) by Rafael Rangel; Boceto para un Bosque (2009) by Sydia Reyes; Libélula (2002) by Luis Prada Colón; Tributo a las Orquetas Venezolanas (2009) by Daniel Suárez; Corintio (2004) by Zerep and more. Murals include: Circuitos Jazz Color (2011) by J. J. Moros; Alfabeto plástico tricolor (2011) by Víctor Gil; El Pozo y las ocho estrellas (2007) by Paúl del Río; Atardecer en los campos petroleros by Ernesto León; and Sinfonía by Josefina Rondón. [39] Graffiti is also found in the following spaces: Pasaje Asunción[40] and Calle Baldó. PDVSA La Estancia tried in Sabana Grande to connect art with the public spaces of Caracas.[41] In Sabana Grande some sculptures have been removed and new ones have been added in recent years. The artwork Volumen by Francisco Narváez was not located in Sabana Grande at the time of its rehabilitation but was later included in the urban and artistic furniture of the place.

Some of the architects of the buildings located in the district have been recognized worldwide. These include: Manuel Salazar Domínguez (Los Andes Building),[42] Clifford C. Wendehack (Gran Sabana Building, headquarters of the William Phelps Ornithological Collection),[43][44] José Miguel Galia (Banco Mercantil Building, Metropolitan Bank Building, Polar Complex and The East Theater),[45][46] Francisco Pimentel,[47] Marcel Brauer,[48] Bernardo Borges,[47] Oscar Capiello,[47] Ariel Cohén Waxsman, Emile Vestuti,[45][49] Carlos Goméz de Llarena,[50] Carlos Raúl Villanueva,[51] Mauro Trotta,[52] Moisés Benacerraf,[53] Jorge Romero Gutiérrez,[54] Alfredo Himiob,[55] Dirk Bornhorst,[54] Rafael Bergamin (Banco Venezolano de Crédito Building),[56] Pedro Neuberger,[54] Jimmy Alcock,[57] Mario Breto,[45] Santos Valdes,[55] Pablo Lasala,[52], Rupert Joaquin,[55] Enrique Feldman,[58] Carlos Guinand Sandoz,[49] Michelle Benko,[59] Alfonso Duro,[59] Ana Lasala,[52] Isabel Lasala,[52] Dale Badgely,[56] Silvia Lasala,[52] lvaro Sanz,[59] Juan Carlos Parilli,[45] Francisco Arocha,[45] and more.

Unfortunately, the registration of all the properties has not been carried out and it is necessary to perform an exhaustive investigation to determine who the architects were of all the important buildings on Sabana Grande. Until then, it is still notknown who designed the Araure Building located on the Boulevard of Sabana Grande, even though it was declared part of the Architectural Heritage of Caracas. Most of the architectural heritage of Sabana Grande dates back to the twentieth century, although some buildings from the nineteenth century stand out, such as the Immaculate Conception Church of the Recreo. In 2007, it was estimated that approximately 20 percent of the buildings in Sabana Grande may be renovated or demolished in order to adapt the district to the new times.[60]

See also

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