Almuñécar Mayor, Juan José Ruiz Joya, announced that the underground-parking facilities beneath the unfinished Municipal Market will open on the 21st of this month.

Apart from the 200-odd parking spaces, not all of which will be available for summer visitors, there are charging points for EVs and it will remain open 24 hours a day.

According to Mayor Ruiz Joya, this completes an electoral pledge he made.

Editorial comment: the 21st of July? That gives Almuñécar only eight days before they shut down the whole of the parking area where the Friday/Sunday markets are held (Plaza Blas Infante) for three weeks in August to make way for the damned fairground.

As it is, Almuñécar’s summer season is reduced to between the 15th of July and the 15th of August and even then you can tell a weekday from a weekend. So from the 15th to the 21st, there won’t be any parking under the still unfinished municipal market? How does the Mayor think he can sell this disaster as a gain for the town?

And just when is the market going to be inaugurated despite promises that it would be ready before the summer?

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Keywords: Municipal Market, Underground Car Park, Plaza Blas Infante, Fairground, Mayor Ruiz Joya

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Reader’s comment: “He’s desperately trying to put a positive spin on the fact that ‘they only needed to put the pavement around the market’ and it would be ready late April or start of May… and they have hardly touched it since!
Instead of focussing on finishing the market, they have fiddled a bit with the roundabouts, planning changes to Av. Costa del Sol and Caletilla etc…
It became painfully clear, when they removed the ugly metal fence, and we had a full view of a buildingsite battlefield! …and the longer it takes to finish it, the more the building costs go up!!! ???? More nuisance for the businesses and the neighbours around it!
But yay… let’s be positive…. we have a few parking spaces! (Which are so desperately needed because the same people have destroyed so many parking spaces ‘remodeling’ the streets, and removing trees that would have given a bit of shade… ????
I, so badly, want to be positive, but its been 5+ years! And when you look at ‘their big future projects’ like the underwater park and the harbour, all the plans were presented without any parking spaces, at all…” – Charlotte Hjorth

Reader’s comment: “Is their possibility long time rental parking spaces or even buy one ?” – Geert Weck

Reader’s comment: “At present if you are a wheelchair user or of limited mobility there is no hope of getting out of this car park unless you take your life in your hands and negotiate the vehicle access ramps. To be fair it will probably be a good facility when it’s finished, but when will planners get it into their heads that Palm trees are as about as useful as concrete lamp posts, and in many ways less attractive; they certainly don’t belong on urban streets.” – George