Torremolinos set to clear abandoned buildings as €575,000 social project moves forward

Torremolinos has plans to transform a long-abandoned site and general eyesore in El Calvario, with almost €576,000 being allocated to demolish unused buildings on the former Virgen de la Esperanza children’s centre site.

A contract worth €575,000 is now looking for a contractor for the demolition work. The project is the first physical stage of a wider plan to create a new social services area on land transferred to Torremolinos by the Junta de Andalucia.

For residents living in the town, the development is part of a wider regeneration programme that could eventually bring new public and community services to a central part of Torremolinos.

Abandoned buildings to make way for social facilities

Covering more than 15,000 square metres, the site contains several unfinished and unused structures. Buildings, particularly the one close to Calle Ecuador, have suffered from unauthorised access, occasional occupation, fires, rubbish accumulation and uncontrolled vegetation.

Removing the structures will allow the land to be reorganised while reducing problems linked to safety and cleanliness that have affected the area for years.

Official plans confirm that the main Virgen de la Esperanza building on Calle Honduras will not be demolished. That structure will be retained for later refurbishment and social use.

What will happen to the Torremolinos site?

Plans for the future social complex form part of the ongoing regeneration of El Calvario, where the former municipal market has already been converted into the Isabel Manoja Community Development Centre.

Torremolinos mayor Margarita del Cid said the demolition would tackle longstanding safety concerns while creating space for a new network of social facilities.

Junta de Andalucia approval for the land transfer was published in May, covering the 15,000-square-metre plot and authorising demolition of the unused buildings while retaining the main centre for social purposes.

For residents, the next stage will be watching how quickly the cleared land develops and which services eventually arrive at the future El Calvario social complex.