This is now our fourth update on the state of the renovation works at the Agora in Chania. The contract for renovation was originally signed in January 2022, with a deadline for completion of 24 months. With the remaining traders having left the site at the end of 2021, the contractors moved quickly to strip the building down to its bare shell, following which there was a hiatus. Nothing seemed to be happening and citizens began to suspect that the project would go the way of all public works in the city, with the work proceeding by fits and starts and subject to endless extensions of deadlines.