Work on the Paseo Marítimo in Palma, Mallorca

The Paraires bridge is due to be demolished this weekend. | Teresa Ayuga

Andrew EdePalma19/02/2025 17:00
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The president of the Balearic Ports Authority, Javier Sanz, said on Wednesday that the work to remodel Palma's Paseo Marítimo will be completed by April 16. The official inauguration will be in October, a year after the work had originally been scheduled to finish.

Responding to this announcement, the president of the Paseo Marítimo's business association, Manuel Jiménez, expressed his hope that this will indeed be the case, as he wasn't convinced. "Let's see if it is true that it'll be ready by the end of the year." He and businesses in the area have so far had to endure more than two years of disruption. The work started in November 2022.

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There are 80 members of the association and nearly all have suffered as a consequence of the work. He pointed out that "15 per cent of the businesses are up for transfer and many have been closed over the winter". There are, he added, "only a few that have closed completely".

At present, he explained, some businesses are undertaking renovations; they are all "waiting for the arrival of aid". "We will calculate the total losses once the work is finally finished, but right now the average cash loss is 50 per cent, which is crazy. But there are some businesses that have lost even more".

Restaurants have suffered greatly and "car rental companies have disappeared". "All the companies to have left have done so because it was impossible to work here."