Almería seeks a new location for the Sports City

The Almería City Council has accepted the resignation of Almería has accepted the UDA’s resignation to the concession of land to the south of the Almería Swimming Club signed by Alfonso García before the landing of Turki Al-Sheikh. The new directive of the rojiblanco club has renounced this transfer of land pending a new concession for a larger surface area that “allows them to develop the ambitious sports project they want to do in the city”, according to the council itself.

The remodeling of the Mediterranean Games Stadium and the construction of a sports city were two of the fundamental projects for the Saudi property, which has run into the slow Spanish administrative process. The works in the Mediterranean already began last August, but the search for land continues with regard to the sports city. According to ‘Diario de Almería’, in the Indálica entity like the urbanization of El Toyo, where “the council has contemplated in its master plan for sports facilities a complex with an Olympic swimming pool, among other endowments”. The UDA is looking for a space to build three soccer fields (one with natural grass), as well as a 7-a-side soccer field and a futsal court, as well as six paddle tennis courts and a building that includes changing rooms.

As reported by ‘Diario de Almería’, the plot that the UDA has renounced, located in the area of ​​Jaúl Bajo, next to the Andarax park and the Almería Swimming Club, It went to public concession in 2014, having 38,832 square meters and awarded to the rojiblanco club for a period of 50 years. “In June 2018, the maximum period of four years that Almería had to present the execution project expired, a step that was never taken to make this investment of more than three million euros a reality (not including maintenance costs valued at about 120,000 euros per year) “, exposes the Almeria publication.