Deposito Tetepilco. Mexico Av. Municipio Libre 402, Colonia San Andrés Tetepilco 09440, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico
The Depósito Tetepilco site is located in the mixed-used housing along the urban North-Eastern side of the Iztapalapa corridors. Parks and educational facilities municipality, one of the most emblematic, are adjacent to the site, providing dense, and culturally rich municipalities of opportunities for integrating the proposals the city. Its location offers easy access to to the surroundings. major roads and public transport. Bidders will have the opportunity to develop With an area of 166,120 sqm, the site mixed-use proposals that include retail, currently hosts several buildings including services, and educational and energy the main offices, workshops, and operation generation. yards of the Electric Transport Service (Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos - STE), In addition, as a legacy of a longstanding which is the agency in charge of managing history of electric mobility, STE and the city and operating electric transport in Mexico are looking forward to proposals that City. recognize its heritage and commitment to This site holds the extraordinary potential to connecting the residents across the city, reorganize and enhance STE’s current using clean energy, and promoting a more operational program, free up space, and efficient, innovative, and sustainable allow the integration of new uses. development, mainly water management Land uses in the proximity of the site are and energy generation. predominantly low-density housing and
Expected program: Plot area: The site is currently used for administrative 166,120 sqm offices, storage, and operation of STE, the current property area will be subdivided to allow Type of property transfer intended: the introduction of new land uses while keeping Two possible scenarios: STE´s current operations. Bidders will have to Concession: As a concession, the site will be prioritize mixed-use projects that include retail, leased to a private entity to be redeveloped for a services, culture, training, education and public given period. spaces, as ordering elements of the urban PATR, Permiso Administrativo Temporal structure. Revocable (Temporal Administrative Revocable The city will precisely define the size and parts Permit): instrument developed by Mexico City’s of public services that will have to be rebuilt on government to give authorization to a private site by applicants. (Please refer to the online developer to use Mexico City’s private or public dataroom for more information) real estate properties. Under this scheme, the private developer must meet certain Owner: requirements on an evaluation process to The Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (STE) develop a legal and authorized use in the (Electric transport services) property. (Please refer to the online dataroom for more details).
Presentation of the site and expectations for its redevelopment
The site is located in the Colonia San Andrés Over the years the predominance of fossil fuel Tetepilco in the Iztapalapa municipality. For a vehicles has replaced the use of electric long time, this municipality has faced mobility, reducing dramatically their operation. challenges such as the development of Despite these reductions, the electric mobility informal settlements, incompatibility of uses, system, specially the tramway has an lack of quality public space and vegetation, important historical significance for Mexico visual pollution, and loss of heritage sites. City. The tramway was the first massive public transport mode that connected the central However, within Iztapalapa, the Tetepilco site areas with peripheral towns, strengthening is in a privileged zone, with access to major economically the city. It is also a mode of roads and public transport. The Portales transport tied to the industrial history of the Station of Line 2 of the Metro System is city and the country. located within a few blocks’ walking distance, and Line D of the Trolleybus System passes As a testament to STE´s longstanding right in front of the site. Land uses in the tradition on electromobility, the Depósito proximity of the site are predominantly low- Tetepilco hosts the Museum of Electric density housing and mixed-used housing. Av. Transport, which portrays the history of Municipio Libre and Av. Andrés Molina electric mobility and its importance for the Enríquez, that border the site to the South and urban, economic and social development of East respectively, are secondary roads that Mexico City. connect to primary arteries Av. Churubusco and Calzada de Tlalpan. The site is also in a Given the legacy and history on electric radius of 1 km of the future Zero Emissions mobility, STE and the city are looking forward Corridor Eje 8 Sur, promoted by Mexico City´s to proposals that recognize its heritage and government and C40 Cities Finance Facility. commitment to connecting the residents This corridor will boost the connectivity of this across the city, using clean energy, and part of the city and bring new development promoting a more efficient, innovative, and and investment. sustainable development. Proposals that include projects of energy generation within The Depósito Tetepilco site is the home to the the site (i.e. solar power) will be highly Electric Transport Service’s (Servicio de valuable. Transportes Eléctricos – STE) central offices. Since the 1950’s this site has been key for the The Depósito Tetepilco is currently used for operations and administration of the administration and operation by STE, organization. During the 1950s and 1960s, at proposals should consider that these activities the peak of the operations, STE controlled 32 will continue at all times. Proposals that lines with a fleet of over 1,000 units including include construction and development tramways and trolleybuses. Currently, they phasing programs will be valued. See, the operate with only 290 units, reducing additional documentation for more details considerably the space needed in the site to about the specific areas that can be relocated operate the system. This makes their property or reorganized for optimization. apt for introducing new programming and uses. STE is open for proposals that reorganize and redistribute the site, including their current STE is a decentralized agency of Mexico administrative and operational areas, when City´s government in charge of the electric the changes are financially, economically, and transport systems of the city since 1947. operatively feasible. Costs of the relocation Currently, the agency operates and manages should be considered in selecting the best the trolleybuses, light rail, and a small fleet of redeveloping strategy. STE is open to give electric taxis. STE´s fleet comprises 290 feedback and answer questions to evaluate trolley buses, distributed in 8 lines covering a feasibility. total of 203.64 km; 20 light rail trains, covering a line of 13.04 km that runs North-South of the It is expected that the site will be ready legally city; and a fleet of 20 electric taxis. for redevelopment by mid-2018, STE will continue with its operation as indicated above.
Specific planning rules and regulations regarding the development of the sites
The site is subject to the following regulatory Besides, the PDDU-Iztapalapa mentions that and planning framework (please refer to the the Colonia San Andrés Tetepilco, where the online dataroom, where summaries of each of site is located, is considered a traditional town these documents will be prepared, including (pueblo tradicional) of historical relevance. the most relevant information): However, no historic or preservation - Programa General de Desarrollo Urbano regulations are in place. de la Ciudad de México - Programa Delegacional de Desarrollo For more information on the planning rules: Urbano para la Delegación Iztapalapa - The Programa General de Desarrollo (PDDU-Iztapalapa) Urbano de la Ciudad de México (General - Normas por Ordenación Generales y Urban Development Program): - Particulares - http://www.seduvi.cdmx.gob.mx/program - Normas Técnicas de Accesibilidad as/programa/programa-general-de- - Norma de Estacionamientos y desarrollo-urbano - Biciestacionamiento - The Plan Delegacional de Desarrollo - Programa Integral de Movilidad 2013- Urbano para la Delegación Iztapalapa 2018 - (Urban Development Plan for the - Reglamento de Construcciones de la Iztapalapa Municipality) Ciudad de México - http://www.data.seduvi.cdmx.gob.mx/por - Public consultation and citizen tal/index.php/programas-de- participation desarrollo/programas-delegacionales - The Construction regulations: According to the E 3/40 regulation, the site - http://www.data.obras.cdmx.gob.mx/nor should be dedicated to urban services, with at matividad-obras/ least 40% of open space but no specific limitation on density.
Specific climate or environmental issues regarding the development of the site On earthquakes: On pollution issues: According to the Construction Ordinances Currently, pollution studies have not been (Reglamento de Construcciones para el conducted within the area. However, given Distrito Federal) Iztapalapa is located in a that repairing, vehicles storage, and trash former lake area, with sand sediments in the deposits activities took place on the site, subsoil that make constructions vulnerable to some light soil pollution is expected. seismic activity.
On water issues: On flooding: The municipality of Iztapalapa is located at Iztapalapa is also located in one of the lowest one of the lowest levels in the city, and is points of Mexico City´s topography, making thereby vulnerable to flooding and sinking. the municipality vulnerable to flooding, Besides, the municipality is not able to provide sinking. adequate water supply to its residents. Proposals should then include strategies for On sustainability: managing water: rain capture, recycling, Bidder teams will be encouraged to integrate disposal, etc. This site can become a much- sustainability strategies involving clean needed demonstrator of water management energy, transport, water and waste innovations in the city. management, social inclusion in their proposals.
1. Main offices 9,12,13. Manufacture and repair workshop 2. Employee Parking 10. Mechanic workshop 3. Museum of Electric Transport 11. Woodshop 4. Operation yards (patios de maniobras) 14. Welding workshop 5. Material storage 15. Substation 6. Physical archive deposit 16. Visitor parking 7. Repair workshop for support vehicles 17. Electric taxi parking and charging (cars, pick-ups, trucks) stations 8. Heavy maintenance workshop (engine, 18. Electric workshop fuel) 19. Tire workshop