The Mínguez Pier is being built in Torrevieja

The Torrevieja Port Board met yesterday at the offices of the Ports of the Generalitat Valenciana. Marc García, who is the Director General of Coasts, Ports, and Airports, was there, as well as Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, and Agustina Esteve, who is the representative of the Consell in Alicante. All the groups and businesses in the city’s port, like the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja (RCNT), the marinas of Marina Internacional and Marina Salinas, the Fishermen’s Guild, the Torrevieja salt flats, the tourist apartments of Marina Internacional, the dry dock, and the company that runs the Leisure Centre in the port of Torrevieja, were there.

The Director General of Ports said that the Torrevieja City Council has the right permissions to improve the Mínguez Dock, so the work has already begun. Additionally, the main electrical work on the port area will soon begin, along with the planned redevelopment of Paseo La Libertad and the areas around it. On March 1, the hippie huts will be taken down and moved to the Vía Verde, where they will be set up and will be open to the public during Easter.

Marc García said that the Port of Torrevieja and the Port of Denia are the two most important in the Valencian Community. He also said that the concessionaire company of the Leisure Centre and the Torrevieja council are investing more than 100 million euros right now.

At the same time, the government of Valencia is working on getting a global contract for the work in the area around Eras de la Sal and for the work to reorganise and improve the front of the port. This piece of land will be ready in March. The City Council needs this global concession in order to begin building the new theatre at Eras de la Sal. The building will be located in the old dry dock at the Marina Internacional sports port.

Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, said that the Government team wants the 2026 International Habaneras and Polyphony Competition to take place in this new area at the Eras de la Sal.

Another thing that was talked about this morning at the Port Roundtable with the Marina Salinas, Marina Internacional, and RCNT nautical clubs and ports’ officials was the concession extension that they need to keep doing their work. The length of the extension will rest on the investments that these ports make, which have already been shown to the Director General of Ports.

Enrique Riquelme, who is in charge of the concessionaire company running the Leisure Centre at the port of Torrevieja, said that the underground parking garage with 640 spaces will open in March. This will happen at the same time as the opening of the road from Avenida de La Libertad to the Levante Dock. Also, Riquelme said that the Leisure Centre will be opened in July, after all of the work on it has been finished.

Finally, Eduardo Dolón, the mayor of Torrevieja, said that the path for pedestrians that will connect the Levante Dock to the upper part of the Leisure Centre might be finished in June 2025.