Puerto Vallarta’s popular malecón to see major upgrades this year

Puerto Vallarta’s boardwalk, amended known by its Spanish sanction malecón, volition soon acquisition renovations, the Public Works Adjudication Committee for Jalisco announced connected Monday. 

During Monday’s session, Mayor Luis Munguía voiced his enactment for improvements to the fashionable malecón, a root of pridefulness for section residents of the celebrated Pacific Coast destination.

Additional places to beryllium are a invited summation to the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk. (Gobierno Municipal de Puerto Vallarta/Facebook)

The project’s extremity is to make a much charismatic and safer abstraction for visitors, Munguía said. The plans see the renovation of curbs, seawall cleaning, and the installation of prefabricated benches. 

Around 2.6 cardinal tourists visited Puerto Vallarta successful the archetypal 7 months of 2024, and the mile-long malecón is beloved by residents and tourists alike. 

The Public Works Adjudication Committee precocious completed improvements to the malecón, including the replacement of 35 accepted lamps with LED technology, infrastructure repairs and a thorough cleaning, each aimed astatine enhancing sustainability and vigor efficiency, the municipal authorities shared connected its Facebook site. 

More improvements successful the pipeline

In January, Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro announced plans to physique a caller 140-meter-long pier adjacent Hotel Rosita connected the Puerto Vallarta malecón.

The task is expected to outgo 430 cardinal pesos (US $21.3 million), according to Lemus. It volition diagnostic a canopy with a metallic operation and alloy mesh, pedestrian and signifier lighting, outdoor seating and a ample viewing platform. 

Lemus expressed his imaginativeness of a much standardized representation for Vallarta’s future. 

Around 2.6 cardinal tourists visited Puerto Vallarta successful the archetypal 7 months of 2024. (Gobierno Municipal de Puerto Vallarta/Facebook)

“We privation the radical of Puerto Vallarta, the historical center, to person a standardized municipality image,” Lemus said. “That is, for the full municipality of Vallarta to beryllium seen arsenic those of america successful my procreation who grew up present retrieve it — each white, tiled, with each the houses the same, not arsenic it is today, wherever immoderate are 1 color, others another. We privation to standardize the full representation and promote galore much tourists.”

Several piers person precocious been completed on Jalisco’s coast, including successful Quimixto, Punta Pérula, Melaque and Boca de Tomatlán.

The authorities authorities plans to conception much piers on the seashore successful Mismaloya, Las Peñas, Yelapa, Chimo, Bahía de Tehuamixtle and Bahía de Navidad.

With reports from NoticiasPV, El Occidental and El Economista