La Mata Town Hall on Schedule for June

Torrevieja´s first satellite Town Hall, in La Mata, will be completed and ready for business in June 2010. On May 13, Torrevieja’s Mayor Pedro Hernández Mateo, visited the construction site to see the progress for himself, accompanied by Councillor for Works and Services Javier Montoro and the Mayor’s representative for La Mata, Manuel Paredes. The new Town Hall is located just off the main seafront square in Plaza de Gaspar Perelló. The new facility is right on schedule and has an investment of 3,335,310 euros for the project.

The building has a basement, ground floor, 2 floors and attic, with the project also including the redevelopment of the whole area of Plaza Gaspar Perelló with further improvement works consisting of the paving of 126,000 square-meters, for almost all of the streets of La Mata’s town centre. The mayor expressed his satisfaction as the construction company is meeting all deadlines and mandates. The facility will house local building regulation offices, toilets, Local Police, technical offices, offices for council members, meeting rooms, assembly hall and reception plus customer service; occupying a total area of 1,825 square meters.

The building is a welcome addition for the hamlet that also has its own social centre, 3rd Age Centre and library. The new building has very functional spaces with wide corridors, while fully glazed walls with large windows provide great natural light into the building. La Mata is the first of a phase of Satellite Town Halls for Torrevieja with the second to be located at the site of the present Semana Santa Museum in Aguas Neuvas, when building is completed on the new Museum, which shall soon start construction on Avda. de la Habaneras.

Keith Nicol