The Government of Nuevo León announced on August 21, 2026 that it will institutionalize the Ponte Nuevo program through an executive decree, converting it into a permanent public policy. The public-private collaboration scheme, involving 106 companies and more than 350 million pesos across 310 initiatives, aims to outlast the 2026 World Cup, according to El Universal Estados.
The announcement was made at the Laboratorio de Nuevo León (LABNL) before business leaders, where Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda argued that the decree route allows the policy to be regulated without depending on a legislative process. The program was created as an urban transformation strategy ahead of the World Cup and has funded projects in security, water, mobility, and urban regeneration, as well as interventions in schools, parks, and public spaces. García drew a comparison with what happened to a similar scheme after the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, which lost continuity, and maintained that the objective is for the projects not to end with the sporting event, according to Quadratín Nuevo León.
According to the official balance, 106 companies, institutions, and universities participate in the program, with more than 350 million pesos allocated to 310 initiatives. Mariana Rodríguez Cantú, head of AMAR a Nuevo León, noted that the challenge is converting the World Cup collaboration into a permanent scheme: "The path to making Ponte Nuevo a legacy for Nuevo León is to institutionalize it." Program management will fall under the Secretaría de Economía, the Secretaría General de Gobierno, the Secretaría del Trabajo, the Tesorería, and the water authority Agua y Drenaje. García also announced a decree to expand direct business support in permitting, strengthen the zero-shutdowns scheme, and digitize state procedures. On the security front, the state's C5 surveillance center grew from roughly 12,000 to 18,000 cameras, and the governor proposed expanding it to a network of up to 30,000 devices.
The institutionalization establishes a template that other states can replicate to anchor private partnerships beyond any single event. The next milestone is the publication of the decree and the program's operation under the state administrative structure, with an expansion of business support mechanisms.
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