El Toyo, the “model” urbanisation outside of Almeria that has been compared as a prototype of our projected Llano Central, is facing a 100% strike of all public workers.
It seems that since the hotels have closed, half the houses have not been built, the commercial centre not even started and the place falling apart, budgets [...]
A cornerstone of El Toyo (the luxury residential and commercial area between Almería and Cabo de Gata, and a model for our own Llano Central) was going to be 120,000m2 of shopping - a centre that would rival Murcias Nueva Condomina. A proposal was sent, with a flourish, to Ikea and El Corte Ingles.
Now that [...]
If El Toyo is “failing” - what future “Llano Central”?
There’s a report in La Voz de Almería today about how El Toyo, the large luxury tourism complex behind Almería Airport, first built for the Mediterranean Games in 2005 and now mooted as the template for the ambitious “Llano Central”, is failing, if not already failed.
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Matinesa-Fadesa, the huge construction and real estate group that was one of the main movers behind El Toyo (they built the Olympic Village, one of the main hotels and a bunch of houses) has just gone into administration after failing to renogatiate a debt of 5100 million euros. Another nail in the coffin!
What was going [...]
The mayor of Almería was refreshingly honest and open about the crisis in El Toyo . “I have sent several urgent communications to Costas [the coastal authorities who the mayor claims are in charge of looking after the beaches in the area] and they have not yet replied to me” he said. “As regards the [...]
[Read full post]El Toyo was to be Almerias showcase leisure and tourist region to the east of the city (just before Cabo de Gata natural park, past the airport). Eager to get in from the beginning, a number of large hotel companies built 4 and 5 star hotels in the area, two golf courses were planned, shopping [...]
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