Overview
- The Miraflores municipality launched a public tender to sell the closed Market No. 1 for roughly US$12 million.
- Public records list the property under Miraflores despite its location inside Surquillo, a legacy of past boundary changes.
- Miraflores legal chief Lino de la Barrera says the asset belongs to his district and the buyer must keep it operating solely as a public market.
- Surquillo mayor Cintia Loayza denounced the move as a threat to local heritage and asserted the market’s historical ties to the community.
- The 1939 market, about 4,000 square meters with three levels and some 300 stalls, has been shuttered since August 2023 for health and safety issues, and its prime site by the Vía Expresa and Ricardo Palma station heightens its value.