Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, November 6, 2026 – Puerto Vallarta owes contractors about MXN 23 million, holding up at least five street projects, according to a report published Friday.
Public Works Director José Andrés Abundis Méndez said the city hoped to pay next week and finish the affected projects before the end of the year.
“We have a cash-flow issue,” he said in Spanish.
He also said crews had returned to Jesús Langarica, where he expects the remaining work to take seven weeks.
The unpaid bills are estimaciones, or payments for work already completed. The report does not list every affected street or show how much the city owes on each project.
For people living beside the unfinished work, the question is when their streets will be usable again.
Still waiting on 5 de Febrero
On 5 de Febrero in Emiliano Zapata, neighbors have waited months.
Work began in March, but crews had still not finished the block between Ignacio L. Vallarta and Constitución. The two-block project continues toward Insurgentes and includes cobblestones, sidewalks, and drainage.
Resident María del Socorro Garibaldi Mercado told the newspaper that the person overseeing the work originally said it would take two months. By September, she said crews were showing up only a couple of days a week.
The unfinished sidewalks are part of the problem for people walking to homes and businesses along that stretch beside the Río Cuale.
Crews return to Jesús Langarica
Near Parque Hidalgo, the latest reports describe work getting underway again.
A report indicated water and sewer work had begun on Jesús Langarica and Paraguay. It described the work as the final stage of the project connecting a section of Avenida México toward the Malecón.
Residents and merchants had already raised complaints in July about unfinished work on Jesús Langarica and nearby 31 de Octubre. They reported standing water, construction debris, and damaged protective fencing along the approach to the waterfront.
Abundis’s seven-week target gives neighbors another deadline after months of delays.
Pothole repairs are also waiting on supplies
The city is also trying to get its pothole crews working. Vallarta Daily reported this week on plans to patch five major roads, with the start depending on materials.
Abundis named Avenida México, Politécnico Nacional, 20 de Noviembre, Francisco Medina Ascencio and Francisco Villa as the first priorities. He planned to put four crews to work and said he was waiting for money to buy materials.
Those roads are part of the separate pothole program. The MXN 23 million debt concerns unfinished construction projects.
On 5 de Febrero, residents are still waiting for crews to finish the first of the project’s two blocks, between Ignacio L. Vallarta and Constitución.
