The building boom goes on

The site of the one-time Vale Navio 'resort' is now being redeveloped. They a re currently at thegroundwork and drain laying stage on the 32 hectare (79 acre) site.

This is what it's going to be when finished in 'about 3 years'.

Not much to see at the moment,

Some sympathy for the owners of the rather expensive houses along that road, given the current state of it!

As for the Albufeira Prime site near the town hall, not a stroke of work going on but maybe they too are closed just for holidays. Would you pay the asking price if you had seen the way they were built?

Interesting all these construction shots, must reviit the Arte Bar site this visit and collect some updated video.

On that subject I was lucky to come into possession of some early Marina development video and have compiled it for publish. It's interesting apart from a technical point view to see the timeline and also see some shots of older Albefeira.

It's on a temporary home at present but I will post a link to the Marina topic in around 4 weeks time. Meanwhile I am keeping an eye on phase 2 which seems to have had the summer off

Andrew wrote: I'd love to see that video mate. I have loads of stills pre marina and during construction but haven't seen any video, do shout up when you publish it, cheers.

The construction is pre our time so was lucky to have been trusted with the footage by a mostly algarve resident.

I really wanted to timeline the project as best possible and include as many shots showing 'how things were and changed' as possible, stills from the project would be a very welcome addition to the final video?

There are a few reference shots I want to take this trip then I will publish the video end of October. I assumed, wrongly, the Chapel da Orada pre dated the development but there were buildings on that site which were used during the project and have now gone. Not being Algarve visitors back in those years it was of great interest to us and a pleasure to compile.