Recovery Bolhão begins at holiday time and costs € 27 million – Express

You can be the first step of a long and longed walk. Market recovery works Bolhão, with a total cost of € 27 million, will finally begin on 1 August, but only abroad. Only during the first half of next year will reach the decisive stage of intervention in the interior, which will require to find an alternative space for traders.

There are thirty years of waiting. There are thirty years promises. There are thirty years never materialized ads. Are thirty years of frustration. Dozens of years of accumulation of degradation, the point of the market today to present an air bleak. No one comes to realize sometimes if the crowds of tourists every day the visit are looking for a copy of a certain type of architecture or attracted by the decadent air of an impoverished market.

the recovery of Bolhão was one of the promises of Rui Moreira and outside Rui Rio, or Fernando Gomes, or other mayors. Over the years they have been presented designs of all types, some of them like the one developed by Rio intended to distort completely the spirit of the market. Moreira promise is that the Bolhão continue, by definition, be a traditional fresh market, maintenance of the building traces, which will be modernized and to which other facilities will be added.

For this, the August 1 start works abroad underground. The aim is to divert some infrastructures, in particular, a water line that crosses all the market area for the flag Sa streets and Fernandes Thomas. It is a crucial intervention to allow another phase to stabilize the building and build a technical basement.

First hard works 240 days

This first part has a € 800,000 budget and is the only way to ensure the possibility of a keynote speech in the building, emergency declared since the year 1980. the contract is expected to last 240 days and will involve traffic conditioning in the adjacent streets to the market. Thus, from the beginning of August it will cut traffic on the street Fernandes Tomas, between Alexandre Braga and Sá da Bandeira. Two-way will be created in Taiwan street and eliminated a sense in Sá da Bandeira, between Formosa Street and Fernandes Tomás.

The creation of a temporary space for traders is one of the major concerns of the Porto executive, since it will be necessary to ensure a place with good safety and attractive enough to not lead to a loss of customers. A council document refers all “current traders will be invited to move to the temporary market and return to the Bolhão Market, already restored in 2019, when the process is complete.”

The Office Bolhão market will meet from Tuesday with each of the merchants in order to find consensus on a possible solution.

at the moment is preparing the launch of tenders required for the award of the following contracts such as the construction of the tunnel between the street Commercial Atheneum Oporto and the future basement of the Bolhão market and the general contract for the restoration and modernization of the market. The work for which everyone expects.