Mijas will expand and renovate the Las Lagunas Active Participation Center

The Mijas Town Hall will refurbish the Las Lagunas Active Participation Center to increase space and make these facilities "more accessible ... and friendly". For now, the Municipality has opened a public tender for 59,856.32 euros for the drafting of the project, which will determine the details of the intervention.

The center is located on a plot of 2,233 square meters classified as consolidated urban land with a public facility designation. The current facilities date back to 1986, so with the project the Town Hall "aims for a total update of the spaces, which will be expanded" in facilities that have become "obsolete" and "small" for its 3,480 users. "Hence the importance of this remodeling project to gain space and offer a greater number of workshops and services," explained the senior citizens' councilor, Silvia Marín.

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The refurbishment will connect the inner courtyard with the garden area, to enhance the use, stay, and enjoyment, as well as the conditions of connection with the activities that are being developed in the center with workshops and multipurpose outdoor rooms.

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The Municipality seeks to make the place efficient, "in such a way that it integrates energy, structural systems, air conditioning, natural light, water and space management, and the implementation of actions that improve the comfort of users". The building will also be accessible internally and externally, and the installation of an elevator is planned.

In the senior centers, daily leisure dynamics are organized directly by the Town Hall or by initiatives from different retired associations. Additionally, various activities, primarily recreational, are carried out, and seniors are provided a sociocultural framework where they can satisfy their information and knowledge interests.

Currently, there are three such centers in the municipality, one for each population center of the locality.