HE “Amazon effect”Triggering the sale of urbanized industrial land in Asturias in 2021, diluted. Commercialization of land for the establishment of companies has almost halved last year, according to data from the Institute of Economic Development of the Principality of Asturias (Idepa).
Registered in Asturias in 2021 With 197,615 square meters, the highest industrial land sales figure since the pre-crisis that started in 2008. The landing of the e-commerce giant Amazon in the Bobes industrial area in Siero was key, both in terms of direct occupation of the land and the traction effect it created around the land. The American multinational has built its logistics center in full swing in Bobes, but a change in plans has left the plant idle and the tractor effect has yet to be noticed. This situation and the uncertainties created by the war in Ukraine and its inflationary wave caused the industrial land market in Asturias to cool.
According to the annual report recently published by Idepa, 106,764 square meters of polygonal plots were sold in Asturias in 2022. The figure is a far cry from the 197,615 square feet sold in 2021., but well above the 25,563 square meters of 2020, the year of curfew due to the coronavirus pandemic. The level of 2022 is similar to the year before covid 2019. Sold 109,987 square meters of land in Asturias Industry.
According to Idepa, 18 companies will be established on the marketed land -31 plots- by 2022, with a planned investment of 21.5 million euros and 170 jobs, 92 of which are newly created.
Reservation of plots
Discount on land sales in 2022, Asturias There is still 1.7 million square meters of industrial land. These lands are located in the central region of the region – particularly in the Logistics and Industrial Operations Zone (Zalia) and in the industrial zones of La Lloreda in Gijón and Bobes in Siero – in mining areas such as the industrial sites of Reicastro. in the vacant Mieres and Modesta in Langreo, and on the flanks of the region – such as the Guadamía polygons in Ribadesella or Barres in Castropol.
At the 2022 sales rate, industrial land would still be available in Asturias for the next 16 years. Despite this, the development of two industrial zones continues in the area, Villallana in the Lena council and Venturo in the San Martín del Rey Aurelio council. Both projects receive assistance from mining funds.