Posted Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Martinsa Fadesa, the huge builder that recently went bust owing billions, and the company behind the Ballabona golf course project in Antas (never built, but planned to be part of Llano Central, but we can forget about that now) artifically revalued it’s holdings in Antas and Lucainena de los Torres by 3000%. To be brief, [...]
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Posted Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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 [...]
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Posted Friday, October 24th, 2008
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.
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Posted Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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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