Marbella designs a permanent fairground at Arroyo Segundo of 70,000 square meters

The City Council of Marbella has designed a new fairground in the area of Arroyo Segundo spanning 70,000 square meters, where the construction of a "multipurpose" center is planned to host fairs, concerts, or sports activities throughout the year, as announced this Tuesday by the councilor for Urban Planning, José Eduardo Díaz.

This initiative is part of a broader project for the expansion and development of the area as a new neighborhood of the city, for which today the local government board has initially approved the “delimitation proposal” of the Urban Transformation Action (ATU) of Arroyo Segundo and the project for the work of the channeling at the height of the fairground to “prevent flooding”.

The councilor recalled that the City Council recently declared the “public interest” of the project, which will be followed by the publication of the delimitation proposal in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOPMA) and the request for the relevant report from the General Directorate of Urban Planning of the Andalusian Regional Government. After this, the final green light and the advancement of the partial plan of the area will take place, which, according to the municipal official, is expected to be approved in the coming months.

The project will be developed over an area of 365,000 square meters and includes the construction of a residential area with 1,130 housing units, of which 532 will be subsidized, in addition to “various facilities and communications”, such as the north-south connection of La Cañada with the A7 highway and from the east Las Albarizas and the La Ermita industrial estate to the Bello Horizonte area.

The future fairground will be a “multipurpose” space

The initiative also includes the transfer or “a land reserve of 90,000 meters that can reach 140,000”, in which “parking spaces, a large green lung, and a multipurpose area that also includes our fairground” are planned, stated the councilor for Urban Planning.

According to Díaz, the project for the new fairground was approved this Tuesday by the local government board, which he assured will “not only operate during the fair days but will also be active throughout the year”.

Regarding the transfer of land by the owners of the area, the councilor pointed out that “any development always has an area for facilities and 10% of the profits from what is built there must be returned to the city”, highlighting that this will translate into the “improvement of infrastructures” and allocating land for “the future fairground”.

For her part, the councilor for Festivities, Yolanda Marín, noted that the future space will be possible thanks to the “early transfer” that developers have been carrying out for several years, which in 2026 has allowed the expansion of the fairground by 10,000 square meters; emphasizing that it is projected over about 70,000 or 80,000 square meters.

The councilor outlined the design of the future fairground, which will have a “very large expanse” and will be bordered by an access lane, with loading and unloading zones and parking areas. Thus, she explained that the multipurpose center will be distributed in areas for security and health, food, family and youth booths, and attractions for adults and children, and will be dissected by “a wide avenue with green areas”.

Additionally, it will feature an auditorium at the end with a seating capacity of 2,500 and a standing area, which will connect to the residential area of Arroyo Segundo, with plans to use this space for “more uses, such as the fair or sports or cultural activities”, she indicated.