The construction of the housing units in the municipal building of El Portón, at the entrance to the Santa Cruz neighbourhood, is coming to an end eleven years after being suspended. The Housing Board of the Alicante City Council foresees in its General Meeting, the execution project to complete the pending works, with an investment of more than 1.2 million. The work will allow the completion of the 13 dwellings planned for the building, in a project that was originally conceived to house university residents, next to the existing residence in Calle Santa Lucía. However, they will now be used for social renting.
Work on the building began in 2007, but had to be stopped in 2010. The works were completed in 2013, with the structure of the building already erected but unfinished. They have remained blocked until the present day.
Currently, the aim of the Housing Board is to resume these works in order to have the 13 apartments, together with a laundry and storage area, a community room and a premises for rent. The aim of this work is to create a residential complex for social renting, which would have a specific access programme, which would include both the 13 homes to be completed in this building in El Portón, and the rooms in the residence in Calle Santa Lucía.
It would also include a new additional dwelling to be built from scratch on an adjoining site in Calle San Bartolomé, after the Town Hall acquired the property in exchange for a property transfer. The project also includes the construction of a lift shared with the residents of the Santa Cruz neighbourhood, which is intended to facilitate access to the neighbourhood residents, as a complementary system to the new pedestrian walkway that was inaugurated at the beginning of this year. Finally, the project also envisages the urbanisation of the area around the building, which will create a pedestrian walkway to Calle San Bartolomé and a new square.
