The City Council receives 12 proposals to draft the remodeling projects for several neighborhoods in Estepona.

The Consistory plans to undertake the improvement of twenty streets and squares around the Park-Orquidario, a dozen roads in Tres Banderas and the reform of the streets Conejera, Valencia, Formentera and Cabrera. The action aims to revitalize these areas and includes the renovation of pavement, landscaping, infrastructure and street furniture.

The Estepona City Council continues working on the special plan for the comprehensive remodeling of neighborhoods, which will add almost fifty streets and squares in the municipality. The tenders opened by the Consistory for the drafting of the projects have aroused the interest of companies, which have submitted a total of 12 proposals. As usual, the most economically advantageous for the municipal coffers will be selected.

The neighborhood remodeling plan currently includes three interventions. One of them focuses on about twenty streets and squares around the Botanical-Orquidario Park, Andalusia Avenue and the Plaza del Ajedrez, in an approximate area of 17,074 square meters. The streets included in this project are Plaza Antonio Mingote, Maspalomas, Plaza de la Comunicación, Zurbarán, Hermanos Costaleros, Locutor Juanma Herrera, Salvador Dalí, Pasaje Cristo del Amor and Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza, Gibraltar, Greco, Velázquez, Juan Gris, Cid, Híspalis, Ibiza, Sorolla and Miró.

The proposed works will consist of the renovation of the pavement, infrastructure, landscaping and street furniture, with the aim of modernizing and transforming this area that was executed more than three decades ago, to bring it into line with the urban improvement and transformation actions that are being carried out throughout the city.

The base bidding budget for the drafting of the project is 234,300 euros (VAT included) with a deadline for the presentation of the same of four months. Once the project has been drawn up, the works will be put out to tender. Four bids have been received for this tender.

The second scheduled action is for the Tres Banderas area and includes more than a dozen streets and squares, where the renovation of the pavement, landscaping, infrastructure and street furniture is planned. The streets included (completely or partially) in the area are Tres Banderas, Pablo Neruda, Santo Domingo Guzmán, Isaac Peral, Jorge Juan, Velasco, Gravina, Rodríguez Acosta, Escaño, Alsedo, Juan de la Rosa and José Luis Díez. In total, the work will cover an estimated surface area of 11,300 square meters.

The base bidding budget for the technical services contract for the construction project drafting, works management and health and safety coordination of the same is

133,100 euros (VAT included) with a three-month deadline for the presentation of the same. Three bids have been received for this tender. Once the project has been drawn up, the tender for the execution of the works will be issued.

The third open tender is for the drafting of the project to intervene in Valencia, Formentera, Cabrera and Conejera streets. In total, an estimated surface area of 8,111 square meters will be affected.

The base bidding budget for the contract is 133,100 euros, (VAT included) with a deadline for submission of the same of three months. This tender has received five bids from companies. Once the project has been drawn up, the tender for the execution of the works will be put out to tender.

The deputy mayor of the area of Development, Infrastructure and Tourism (FIT), Ana Velasco, explains that this plan pursues an intervention aimed at the complete improvement of the entire set of streets in order to modernize and transform the areas, which are currently outdated, to adapt them to the actions of improvement and urban transformation that are being carried out throughout the city.

The intention is to homogeneously renew the paving and furniture with noble materials and design elements, modern and efficient, as well as a rearrangement of spaces, pavements, signage and signage, and elimination of architectural barriers. Another fundamental objective will be the replanting of vegetation and the planting of gardens and trees in the landscaped areas to be renovated in order to recover and beautify the existing vegetation.