Three phases of road work
Municipal officials coordinated the work, held a conference call with an engineer from the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) and met the week before with the contractor selected for the restoration, the outlet reported. The project has three phases: DTOP first fills and stabilizes the area where the road will be rebuilt; a stone revetment then goes up in line with guidelines from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and DNER; the roadway is paved last.
We are confident the work can be completed in time before another high-surf event affects the area again.
The mayor said that, and she called on DNER's secretary to accelerate the agency's own erosion mitigation project in Parcelas Suárez: "That project is necessary to protect everything we are about to restore," she said, according to the outlet.
The work follows the executive order the governor signed in May 2026 declaring a state of emergency over critical coastal erosion in Parcelas Suárez and other communities on Puerto Rico's northern coast, the outlet reported. The mayor said 92% of the municipality is subject to flooding and that Loíza ranks among the municipalities most affected by coastal erosion, conditions that she said make construction permits extremely difficult to obtain and limit economic development.
What the property records show around Parcelas Suárez
RED Atlas property records bear out the mayor's figure. Of the land area of Loíza's 7,838 recorded properties, 87% lies in a FEMA special flood hazard area (zones A, AE and VE), and 94% once the 0.2%-a-year flood zone is counted. By number, 4,678 properties, 60% of the town, are outside the minimal-risk zone X. In Medianía Baja, the barrio that holds Parcelas Suárez, 2,045 properties are on record and 98.7% of them are outside zone X. Within 500 meters of the Parcelas Suárez properties, 547 of 559 (98%) are in zone AE or the 0.2% zone.
Property still trades there. The registry records 78 sales within 500 meters in the three years to October 21, 2026: 62 were condominium units on five properties, with a median price of $237,500, and 16 were houses or lots on eight properties, median $195,000; the latest of those was a $65,000 sale on Carretera 187 Km 7.8, in Medianía Baja, on July 16, 2026. Widening to 1 kilometer, the last 12 months hold 60 recorded sales at a median of $214,750: 44 condominium units (median $216,000) and 16 houses or lots (median $213,750).
On October 21, 2026, 22 properties were listed for sale within 1 kilometer, at a median ask of $227,500 (from $65,000 to $360,000), and 7 were for rent at a median of $1,300 a month. Short-term rentals outnumber both: 117 were active within 1 kilometer, 107 of them entire homes, at a median nightly rate of $208 over the last 90 days, out of 307 across the town.
On permits, Loíza logged 483 filings in the 12 months to October 20, 2026, down from 654 in the previous 12 months; 170 were approved and 125 marked incomplete. Within 1 kilometer of Parcelas Suárez there were 51 filings, 18 of them approved. The construction-related ones are a consolidated construction permit for the PRIDCO-FEMA 4339 disaster recovery program at PR-187 Km 22.2, filed on February 10, 2026 and marked incomplete; an apartment construction at Urb. Santillana del Mar, whose consolidated construction permit was archived on September 10, 2026 after an infrastructure recommendation was approved in May; and an approved infrastructure recommendation, on December 11, 2025, for an Early Head Start center in Parcelas Suárez.
The town's figures are on the Loíza market profile.
