The project to urbanize the grounds of the former Military Hospital of San Fernando in Córdoba, an initiative that had been on the municipal agenda for decades, has received a new impetus. The Urban Planning Department has awarded the drafting of the project to the company Ingenia, Ingeniería y Medio Ambiente for 12,706 euros. The firm has a two-month deadline to complete this task.

The area to be developed is described as structured in three platforms connected by ramps, with an additional platform on the eastern edge. Currently, most of the surface is unpaved earth, preserving specimens of large orange and palm trees from the old garden. The project must consider a maximum investment of around 500,000 euros for the execution of the renovation, including facilities and urban furniture.

This action aims to resolve the anomalous situation of an unurbanized but occupied enclave—including facilities granted to UGT, Hermanos de la Cruz Blanca, Acojer, and the City Council's own Housing Emergency Center—in the middle of a consolidated urban area. The goal is to fully integrate it into the urban environment.

The budget of half a million euros has been included in Urban Planning's budgets since 2024. The urbanization was initially planned to be undertaken after the Housing Emergency Center became operational, but its opening faced significant delays, finally inaugurating in April 2025, more than six years later than planned. The mayor, José María Bellido, had already highlighted the need to resolve this issue definitively.

The provision of streets and services to this space would culminate a transformation process that began in 2001, when the City Council acquired the land from the Ministry of Defense for the equivalent of 2.34 million euros. The hospital, inaugurated in 1928, was operational until the 1990s.