Torremolinos will transform its old landfill into a park for the whole family

The mayor of Torremolinos, Margarita del Cid, has announced the creation of a large peri-urban park with spaces for the whole family on the sealed landfill site, a transformative project that includes a large leisure and recreation area featuring an outdoor auditorium for concerts and large-scale events. "At the moment, I can share some plans of what this project entails, but I believe it is a perfect example of what this government team has set as a standard: never to settle. Always, always be self-critical and improve," emphasized Margarita del Cid, the mayor of Torremolinos. The Torremolinos landfill was permanently sealed in July of this year, marking the end of the last major landfill in Andalusia. The Almeria-based construction company, Jarquil, in a temporary joint venture with Rialsa, was responsible for these works, which began in 2023. The project had a budget of 6.5 million euros and covered an area of 52,300 square meters, with nearly 684,000 cubic meters of waste moved to a new cell and the planting of 75,536 shrub plants. These works have been noted for the uniqueness of the procedures used and the application of new technologies aimed at quality, efficiency, and, of course, the safety of the construction. Among the set of innovative technologies and systems used in the control and monitoring of slopes and rock blocks, topographic measurement with drones and GPS support, gas measurement, as well as monitoring with inclinometers, piezometers, and photographic timelapse stand out. Additionally, the constructor instrumented the slope being excavated to anticipate possible landslides during the trash movement works and ensure the safety of the operations and those carrying them out. The mayor announced this new project at an event that took place at the Isabel Manoja Community Development Center, where Del Cid reviewed her management at the helm of the Torremolinos City Council today, December 20, marking four years since her arrival at the mayor's office. "The purpose of this event is none other than to report on the management carried out by this government team over the last four years, since I took office with the commitment to move away from complacency in municipal management and work with ambition and the aspiration to make a better city," explained Del Cid. "I believe we have managed to change the inertia of the City Council and move from routine to proactivity, from complacency to ambition, and from the ordinary to the extraordinary. I believe that is the main change in these four years," pointed out the mayor, who cited as an example of this progress the transformation of the Los Álamos hotel into Oceanika, the coliving for digital nomads that is already revitalizing the area, La Nogalera Square, María Barrabino's House, Vicente Aleixandre Square, and the Isabel Manoja Community Development Center.