Julio Redacción

A new project takes over from BCN World. Rebecazado Hard Rock Entertainment World, will have 2,000 million investment and will launch next September in the Costa Dorada.

A future macro-complex leisure of 745,000 square meters will see the light in the middle of the coast of Tarragona. Hard Rock Int. Has announced a million dollar investment on the Costa Dorada to be called Hard Rock Entertainment World.

The new park, which will take over from BCN World, will be one of the largest leisure complexes in Europe. A project, located in Vila-Seca and Salou, with a unique combination of hotels and convention areas, with entertainment, restaurants and shopping.

This announcement coincides with the publication of the latest European ranking of tourist areas. A report where the coast of Catalonia is positioned as the third region in number of visitors.

Besides the positioning of Port Aventura as the sixth park of Europe, and first of Spain, in number of visitors.

A good starting point for projecting the Costa Dorada internationally.

Hard Rock arrives in Vila-seca and Salou

After a long wait, the US company Hard Rock Int. Has unveiled its project for the future Recreation and Tourism Center of Vila-seca and Salou.

It is a macro-complex with a total investment of 2,000 million euros and a new name: Hard Rock Entertainment World. A leisure park that will be the first stone in September 2017.

The project will begin with an investment of over 600 million in its first phase. Time to build a hotel with 500 rooms for family tourism. Establishment developed by Port Aventura. Along with more than 75 luxury product stores that will develop Value Retail.

The result of this first phase is expected to create 11,500 new jobs and achieve an economic impact of 1.3 billion euros for the Costa Dorada.

The new jewel of the Costa Dorada

The epicenter of the new park will be the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

An iconic hotel with guitar shape of 100,000 square meters and 600 rooms. And a casino with 1,200 slot machines and a hundred table games.

In addition to a performance hall with capacity for 15,000 people, the Hard Rock Live. And a pool of 6,000 m2.

A whole business opportunity next to one of the most successful parks in Europe: Port Aventura. The sixth largest leisure park in Europe, after growing by 1.4% and reaching 3.6 million visitors per year.

Catalonia: third region for tourism

The Hard Rock project on the Costa Dorada coincides with the publication of the latest Eurostat tourist data.

In them, Catalonia is the third European region with more visitors. Completing 75.5 million overnight stays in 2015. Only surpassed by the Canary Islands with 94 million and the region of Île-de-France (Paris) with 76.8 million.

Standing out together with other Spanish regions such as the Balearic Islands, Andalusia, the Valencian Community or the Community of Madrid.

Areas that are among the regions with the most real estate projection in Spain.

Approved the proposal to connect the Diagonal by the tram to relegate the car to the background. The future of mobility passes through the Barcelona tramway.

The idea of ??passing the tram on the Diagonal, raised by the Barcelona City Council, receives the approval of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (ATM).

This proposal, not without controversy, proposes to limit the traffic of the private vehicle exclusively to the sides of the great avenue of Barcelona.

The informative study approved by ATM aims to connect the two existing tram networks through Avda Diagonal, installing a large central bike lane. A project that has received more opinions in favor, compared to others such as the burial of the tracks, passing through the streets Comte d’Urgell and Provence and even the electric bus.

The connection by the Diagonal is imposed by the cost and the final benefit, in addition to environmental impact criteria.

From now on the negotiation between the different political groups begins and the drafting of an executive project that will come to light in the summer of 2018.

New conquest of Barcelona tramway

The future project for the tram includes six stops that will connect Anda Diagonal Barcelona. Located in: La Monumental, Sicily, Verdaguer, Pl Cinc d’Oros, Diagonal, Balmes and Casanova.

The study predicts that the tram will not need a catenary and will run at an average speed of 16 kilometers per hour, with four minute intervals. After the recent update of the Diagonal, the design of wide sidewalks is maintained in the stretch already reformed between the Pg de Gràcia and the Pl Francesc Macià.

The conciliation between the various means of transport will pass the tram by the central trunk of the Diagonal, next to a bike lane 3.8 m wide.

While the private vehicle will be displaced to the sides of the avenue. With two lanes per side. In the affected part of the Diagonal it is planned to limit the circulation of the bus to the section between Pau Claris and Via Augusta. Sharing space with the tram of Barcelona from the Pg de Gràcia to the via Augusta. At the same time that in the section between Pl of Glòries and Marina, the tram and the bike path will circulate along the sides.

As for the other options, the burial is drawn between Francesc Macià and Lauria, a proposal that would allow the tram to gain speed, but that would affect several trees when making the underground stations. The union by Comte de Urgell and Provença gains in connectivity, but loses speed and has a difficult fit in Provence. The informative study draws the electric bus with the same section as if it passed the tram and, although it gains speed with respect to the current buses, it does not capture all the demand that is foreseen with the tram.

The highest district of Gracia is also one of the most buildable areas of Barcelona. It is Vallcarca, which after a long abandonment faces its urban reorganization.

The project, involved in the so-called social urbanism, will affect the triangle formed by Avda Vallcarca, Becquer Street and Farigola Street. An area where there are plentiful land and buildings in poor condition.

El nuevo objetivo del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona pasa por rehabilitar dichas fincas, limitando la construcción de viviendas y generando zonas verdes y sostenibles.

A neighborhood model that could be taken to other areas of the city.

Future project for Vallcarca

The reorganization of the Vallcarca neighborhood hosted a contest in which up to 23 different projects were presented. Being the winner the project ‘Arrels’ of the architect Carles Enrich and his team.

This project proposes to optimize the use of existing resources, sensitizing the historical heritage of the neighborhood and putting its water importance in value. In fact, the area hosts the outflow of the streams of Vallcarca and Tomillo.

The affected area includes the streets Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Calendau, Cambrils and Tomillo. In addition to Vallcarca Avenue. A space that will house its current buildings and include a total area of ??15,443 square meters.

The project for Vallcarca includes 6,000 m2 of public housing, 2,570 m2 of urban orchards and a multipurpose space of 1,000 m2. In addition to a space for the production of renewable energies equipped with a pergola formed by 300 photovoltaic plates, a biomass boiler with a deposit of 24 m3 and almost 4,500 m2 in living spaces.

Barcelona’s privileged area

Located at the top of Gracia, and the city of Barcelona, ??Vallcarca allows you to see two large parks that separate it from the urban fabric. It is the Park of the Putxet and Park Güell.

It also has a characteristic urban design, based on steep streets and green spaces that preserve the tranquility of the neighbors.

A privileged area that, like the area of ??Tres Turons (Rovira, Carmel and Creueta del Coll), hopes to change the north of Barcelona in the coming years.

The city of Barcelona once again surprised us with two new restaurants. Projects that will make even more succulent gastronomic offer in Barcelona.

Where will the new referents of Barcelona gastronomy be found?

The good weather of spring has given way to an early summer in the city of Barcelona.

Sun time and enjoy the cuisine here or there. That is why they are constantly announcing novelties in the form of new premises and proposals.

On this occasion Barceloneta and Eixample are the two scenarios chosen for two projects linked to the gastronomy of Barcelona.

‘Can Manel’ has relief

Among the classics of Barceloneta, Can Manel is a gastronomic institution.

A restaurant of reference that closes to give way to a new gastronomic project in Pg Borbó.

Martí Domènech, the great-grandson of the founders, and the investor Milos Klimek have joined Enric Pérez, head of Quonia. New owner of the property that is fully involved in recovering the essence of a centennial establishment.

Rehabilitated the structure of the building, the current objective is to restore the image of the restaurant in the early twentieth century.

By giving a new tenant, Degusplus (company of the Klimet), and inaugurating a new establishment for lovers of fish and Mediterranean cuisine.

Gastón Acurio brings ‘Yakumanka’

As its website says, Yakumanka represents the Peruvian cuisine of the sea.

Connected to almost fifty restaurants around the world and an authentic master of ceviche, Gastón Acurio once again chooses Barcelona for a new restaurant of reference.

It is a cevichería that will open its doors next August in the middle of the Eixample of Barcelona. The restaurant, located on Calle Valencia with Enric Granados, wants to recreate the atmosphere of the restaurant La Mar. Located in Lima.

One of the most successful of Acurio, the most international chef in Peru. With the classic Peruvian ceviche and the succulent cuisine typical of the Andean country.

This project, which aims to be a reference for expansion in other cities will have 300 m2, a double bar and capacity for 50 diners.

Another new challenge for a chef that we enjoyed in the summer letter of Carme Ruscalleda for the restaurant Moments. An establishment of the Hotel Mandarin Oriental with 2 Michelin stars.

The Innovation District, 22@ Barcelona, ??will host two new multinationals. The most demanding area for the transfer of offices to the city of Barcelona extends the list of new ‘neighbors’.

During this week the arrival of the multinational Amazon and the British Regus, specialized in business centers, has been formalized.

Between both operations is completed the contracting of 13,000 square meters of offices in the new fashionable district of Barcelona.

An innovative district that has broken its own record in 2016 with an investment in offices of 930 million, and still has 100,000 m2 pending exploitation. A real estate challenge!

New Amazon Headquarters

Amazon will inaugurate its new headquarters in the 22@ Barcelona in next month of February of 2018.

It is the rent of a space of 11,000 square meters for a period of 15 years.

This real estate contracting, the largest produced in Catalonia during the last decade, contemplates the construction of three buildings for a value of 60 million euros.

This is the sixth investment of Amazon in Catalan territory, after confirming in April the opening of a logistics center in Martorelles. Third ship of the e-commerce giant, after his arrival in El Prat de Llobregat and Castellbisbal.

Regus in 22@ Barcelona

Earlier this week, Regus signed his landing in the city of Barcelona.

The British multinational, which has more than three thousand business centers worldwide, will be installed in the Diagonal Sol building.

With this, Regus will add a dozen centers of business centers in the city condal. In addition to a headquarters that had been waiting for time.

The future building of Regus will have approximately 3,000 square meters. An operation that has been reported in parallel to a new business center in the World Trade Center of the city.

The Market of Sant Antoni begins the last phase of works with an opening date: April 2018. A time expected by neighbors and merchants.

The redevelopment of the Sant Antoni Market, one of the areas with the most projection of Barcelona, ??includes the pacification of the most traveled areas. Especially the one of the crossing of the streets Comte Borrel and Tamarit.

Although access will also be limited to the different sections alongside Manso, Floridablanca, Comte Urgell and Viladomat.

The new market of Sant Antoni, not only modernizes its interior design, but also recovers the four old squares that surrounded the enclosure.

Green areas and multifunctional spaces for a business forum open Monday to Sunday. A nod to the Eixample of Ildefons Cerdà.

Remodeling Sant Antoni and its neighborhood

The redevelopment of Sant Antoni will be open to the public during the spring of 2018.

Of the last two phases of the project, the first raises the pacification of the streets that limit with the market. As well as the intersection of Comte Borrell and Tamarit streets.

In this way, they recover the four squares that formerly surrounded the market.

While the second, and final phase, contemplates the extension of the perimeter reserved for pedestrians. An intervention that affects the streets that cross with Comte Borrell, from Manso to Floridablanca. As well as Tamarit, from Comte Urgell to Viladomat.

Preference for pedestrians

The new design of the market environment will give priority to pedestrians and bicycles, restricting access to other vehicles. Placing the whole area on a platform to a single level.

The project includes a margin with a width of four meters with mixed circulation of cars and bicycles. It will also open a space of 5 to 6 meters wide with vegetation and areas to sit.

Not to forget an area reserved for the celebration of activities and the meeting between neighbors. All these spaces have been agreed with the participation of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood area and Sunday market

One of the great novelties will be an area of ??700 m2, reserved for activities of all kinds.

Here will be installed a fully equipped cooking class. In addition to multipurpose spaces for young people and public entities.

The new Sant Antoni Market will also debut the redesign of its Sunday Book Market. A total of three fixed canopies surround the building. In addition to a fourth retractable type, and completely uncovered, it will be located on Comte Borrell.

Spaces that will integrate the life of the market with that of the residents and professionals of the area.