MND Local: Puerto Vallarta September news roundup

Puerto Vallarta and Nayarit are presently advancing respective large projects, including airdrome and road construction, h2o strategy improvements and tourism-related initiatives. Officials accidental the developments are intended to grow infrastructure, code work demands and respond to changes successful the region’s system and visitant profile.

Puerto Vallarta airdrome enlargement reaches 54% completion

Construction of the caller terminal astatine Puerto Vallarta International Airport has reached 54% completion, according to relation Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico (GAP). The 9.2 cardinal peso task is scheduled to statesman phased operations successful precocious 2026, with afloat usage expected successful 2027.

The enlargement task astatine the Puerto Vallarta International Airport is present 54% implicit (X, formerly Twitter)

The terminal volition adhd 74,000 quadrate meters of space, expanding the airport’s full aboveground country to 119,114 quadrate meters. Once complete, it is expected to treble rider capacity, accommodating 6 cardinal further travelers per year. The plan includes 8 caller jet-bridge gates and up to 7 distant positions, bringing the full to 19 interaction and 13 distant gates for home and planetary flights.

The task incorporates sustainability features aimed astatine LEED Gold certification, including rainwater harvesting, star panels and solar-control solid facades. GAP describes it arsenic portion of a wider programme to grow capableness crossed respective airports, with large investments besides underway successful Morelia and Aguascalientes.

Puerto Vallarta handled 6.8 cardinal passengers successful 2024, a grounds high, and 4.3 cardinal betwixt January and July 2025. The airdrome serves 18 airlines and 52 routes successful highest season, with caller services scheduled from Porter Airlines successful precocious 2025 and Southwest successful aboriginal 2026.

Puerto Vallarta marks 3,355 escaped favored sterilizations

Puerto Vallarta has surpassed 3,300 escaped sterilizations of dogs and cats, reaching 3,355 procedures during the archetypal week of September, according to Bienestar Animal Puerto Vallarta. 

The program, led by section caput Roberto Ornelas, provides escaped sterilization services crossed the municipality to assistance power overpopulation, forestall illness and trim favored abandonment. Officials item that each process supports carnal health, arsenic good arsenic eases the fiscal load connected families who whitethorn different conflict to spend veterinary care.

The metropolis hosted its archetypal Animal Welfare Fair, wherever volunteers carried retired 229 sterilizations implicit 3 days. The lawsuit took spot astatine aggregate sites, including Linear Park, the Ixtapa Dome, La Lija Sports Center and the Agustin Flores Contreras Stadium. Alongside the surgeries, residents participated successful acquisition activities connected favored attraction and liable ownership.

So acold this September, volunteers person sterilized implicit 3,000 animals for escaped successful Puerto Vallarta. (Unsplash/Andrew S)

They clasp the escaped campaigns each Thursday astatine rotating locations. Residents tin find details astir upcoming venues, fasting requirements and hygiene guidelines connected the Animal Welfare Department’s societal media channels.

Puerto Vallarta concern groups contiguous associated tourism initiatives

Puerto Vallarta’s main concern groups person presented a bid of proposals aimed astatine strengthening the city’s tourism sector, citing concerns implicit declining edifice occupancy, little visitant spending and a shifting tourer profile. The initiatives were outlined astatine a press league connected September 17 by Carlos López Aranda, president of Canaco; Francisco Gabriel Vizcaíno, president of Coparmex; and Jorge Luis Carbajal, vice president of Canirac.

The leaders emphasized that the task reflects collaboration betwixt concern groups, academia, civilian nine and government, to revitalize Puerto Vallarta’s Malecón, the Cuale River and the Cerro neighborhood. They noted that the country has faced challenges from constricted infrastructure, insufficient promotion and reliance connected highest tourer seasons.

The organizers person structured the proposals astir 4 main pillars: upgrading infrastructure and mobility, implementing grooming and selling programs for section businesses, coordinating among cardinal visitant introduction points specified arsenic the port, autobus station, and airport, and promoting sustainable tourism practices. Additional efforts volition absorption connected showcasing Puerto Vallarta’s culinary country done tours, festivals and grooming successful sustainable edifice practices.

Final signifier of Tepic-Compostela road underway

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) reports that operation is advancing connected the Tepic-Compostela highway, with completion targeted for October 31, 2025. The existent enactment focuses connected the last passageway successful the municipality of Tepic, marking 1 of the past large steps earlier delivery.

The 26-kilometer conception volition diagnostic a 2.4-kilometer subdivision to Tepic Airport, a toll plaza, 10 bridges, 2 railroad crossings, 19 intersections and a loop junction. It volition besides nexus to the Las Varas-Puerto Vallarta highway, reducing question clip betwixt Tepic and Puerto Vallarta International Airport from 3 and a fractional hours to astir 1 hr and 15 minutes. 

Work connected the Tepic-Compostela Highway (pictured here) volition see a nexus to the Las Varas-Puerto Vallarta Highway. (Gobierno de Mexico)

They program to unfastened the roadworthy to the nationalist connected November 1. 

A caller subdivision of the highway, from Las Varas to San Blas, is successful the survey signifier arsenic well. Construction teams expect to statesman enactment successful 2026.

Meagan Drillinger is simply a New York autochthonal who has spent the past 15 years traveling astir and penning astir Mexico. While she’s connected the roadworthy for assignments astir of the time, Puerto Vallarta is her location base. Follow her travels connected Instagram astatine @drillinjourneys oregon done her blog astatine drillinjourneys.com.