The City Council of Olhão will move towards the redevelopment of Avenida 16 de Junho, the artery that borders the west side of the fishing port of Olhão, with the aim of widening the city's riverfront.
The project, which will also focus on the eastern part of Avenida 5 de Outubro, is in the public tender stage and will cost 1 million and 850 euros.
According to the Municipality of Olhão, the intervention “will provide the city with an additional 700 meters of privileged contact area with the Ria Formosa”.
From the moment the requalification is completed, «this area of the city will give a jump in terms of urban quality, with the creation of new green areas, modernization of public lighting, planning of parking and construction of new sanitation and rainwater infrastructures».
The Chamber of Olhão will, moreover, become responsible for the space, where the Feira de S. Miguel is held, in front of the Conservatory of Olhão and the headquarters of the GNR Coastal Control Unit, following an agreement signed with the Docapesca.
“We are going to catapult this entire area – which will no longer be a post-industrial area to become another noble area of the city – to a new level of quality of life”, summarized António Miguel Pina, mayor of Olhão.
The mayor adds that this project, «along with the implementation of the Eastern Detail Plan of Olhão and the potentialization of the ways of using the water mirror that is the fishing port, represents another step in an intervention that began in the west, with the 5th of October and the gardens, and it will end even further to the west, with the redevelopment of the area between the roundabouts of the seahorse and the light source».
Once these projects are completed, "the city will have a riverfront of 3 thousand meters, an excellent fruition zone, without equal in the entire region, with privileged contact with the Ria Formosa, without urban or other obstacles", concluded the Chamber of Olhão.
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