A massive luxury development in south Tenerife continues to face snags, this time in the form of a family which is refusing to sell a small building on the site chosen for the development’s flagship Beach Club.
Just days after the Cuna del Alma mini resort in El Puertito de Adeje put some of its luxury villas up for sale off-plan, at prices of up to 2.4 million euros, it has emerged that its overall plans are still being held up by the Galindo family, who own a building which the developers hope to convert into a Beach Club.
The Cuna del Alma project has attracted controversy since details were first announced and has triggered one of the biggest mobilisations of environmentalists in Tenerife in recent decades.
The family strongly oppose the plans to transform the virtually unspoilt location on the coast and have resisted all overtures to release the old construction, even though they are aware that a compulsory expropriation procedure is already underway.
In its advertising, Cuna del Alma makes specific mention of its proposed Beach Club, which it says will connect the open beach with the residential areas, acting as the “heart of the village”, where “the spirit lives and dances, resonating with a welcoming, collective energy”.
According to media reports, the family have received at least three financial offers (the first for what they say was “a laughable sum” of 12,600 euros) to sell the small building but have rejected all of them. Spokesman Juan Francisco Galindo says that they are prepared to fight the matter in court rather than give into the pressure exerted by the developers and Adeje council to give up their land.
“If we are going to lose it, we would like it to be used for a museum of sea life or something similar, not a beach club serving purely private interests” he insisted, adding that, in the past, the building was used as a packaging centre for agricultural products from the Adeje area and had been included on a list of proposed industrial heritage sites in south Tenerife.
