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Bumper investment for Mijas
€200m bonanza Mijas is set to enjoy a €200 million property bonanza over the next 10 years. The first €10 million development is already underway in the municipality, which embraces Mijas Pueblo and several resort areas on Mijas Costa. The area is home to more than 11,000 expatriates. Announcing the €200 million bonanza, Mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado said the major local boost to residential tourism has highlighted “the security that our locality generates for international companies.” La Cala de Mijas is set to be among the main beneficiaries of the funds, with more than 600 houses and apartments planned within the next 10 years in a joint project between British construction firm Taylor Wimpey and Irish chain FBD Hotels and Resorts. These two companies alone are to invest almost €125 million following
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Probe death parents plead THE parents of toddler Lucia Vivar - found dead four kilometres from where she disappeared while playing - want her death further investigated. Though a post mortem examination revealed no signs of violence or a sexual attack on the three-year-old who disappeared on July 26 near Pizarra railway station, about 30 minutes inland from Malaga, relatives and friends still view her death as mysterious. Lucia’s death – Page 2
UNDERWAY: The Horizon Golf development. completion of the new Horizon Golf development which will see 48 flats and 55 townhouses built by next year. “Mijas is at the forefront of international residential tourism with some of
the best and most varied housing and where golf, sea and the mountains c o m b i n e w i t h t h e c l i m a t e t o o ff e r strong support to our greatest economic engine,” Maldonado added.