That future involves entrepreneurs like Estefanía Cardona. Twenty years ago, we didn’t go out for coffee it’s a small example of a big impact.” Neighborhoods are full of bars, coffeeshops, restaurants-it’s a new way of life. “Their parents used to live in a big house and now they want to live in an urban space in an apartment. “The culture is changing for the youth, in particular,” says Rómulo Moya Peralta, an architect and the general director of multidisciplinary design center Trama. Five luxury apartment blocks have shot up on its perimeter in the past five years, and while the changes follow the familiar roadmap of gentrification-avocado toast, fancy coffee shops, and co-working spaces-what’s unique to Quito is that this high-rise living and its connected sense of globalism is new. I stroll around a fraction of La Carolina’s namesake 165-acre park, which was marshland less than a century ago, passing its peaceful botanic gardens, lake dotted with pedal boats, and many food stalls selling ceviche and llapingachos (Ecuadorian potato patties stuffed with cheese). Traveling from the Old Town to La Carolina previously took up to an hour with traffic on the metro, it takes seven minutes. Once regular service picks up, it will reduce congestion and pollution, improving the lives of many Quiteños and opening up the city to visitors. During the process, they discovered a muddle of pre-Hispanic and Colonial ceramics, as well as some chambers and staircases artifacts of interest will be displayed in a small museum at the San Francisco station. A wildly ambitious public works project, stations were constructed beneath the 400-year-old city, with each cobblestone of the historic Plaza San Francisco painstakingly lifted and labeled to be returned to its original setting. La Carolina’s evolution is largely thanks to its proximity to one of the 15 stops of the Quito metro, which opened in a limited capacity in March after years of delays (it’s expected to be fully up-and-running in December 2023).
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