Second the mall Alicante’s commitment become a business complex and business, after the success of the Panoramis experience. in this situation Carrefour Real Estate decided to transform their facilities Alicante Gate inside “business city“, a concept to confuse spaces for offices, others for services, and a space for events and conventionsas approved by the Alicante City Council, which collaborated to make the company and the project possible.
Alicante company will be behind the transformation Custom SuitsBy Javier Reina, who was also responsible for transforming Panoramis.
In total, it is estimated that the facilities can accommodate some of them. 1,800 workers when they are fully operational, this will also help to enliven the entire space. HE the beginning of the works scheduled for the end of next year June, so that the office space is already fully occupied It can be delivered in the first quarter of next year.
Puerta de Alicante has approximately 22,000 square meters of Gross Leasable Area (GLA). triple10,900 meters will be used for retail area, 7,500 meters flexible offices and co-working spaceand for 3,500 meters restoration.
The renewal of the commercial offer includes new services such as: children’s playrooms and gymwhile protecting the cinemas and hypermarket Carrefour and wide car park owned by the complex.
“After analyzing more than 70 assets on the market last year, we chose the city of Alicante to launch the first of the ‘work city’ projects at the national level due to increased growth. The position taken by the capital of the Costa Blancin attracting foreign companies that choose the city to place their offices”, he stated. gabriel tomHe is the CEO of Custom Suits.
According to the same sources, Puerta de Alicante Work City – henceforth – will house offices and co-working spaces in a complex. reproduces the center of a city with all its areas and services: market, restaurants, game room, gym, cinema, shops and offices. The space will be distributed into an urban structure consisting of urban furniture, trees, vegetation and outdoor spaces, as well as streets and squares, which will “faithfully” reproduce the most emblematic places of the city of Alicante. Specifically, interior design of the project Paseo de la Explanada, Portal de Elche, Rambla de Méndez Núñez or Alfonso X will represent El Sabio and Maisonnave streets.
Carrefour Property’s decision will allow restart a domain that has closed a large part of its offering in recent years, despite different attempts to revive the activity that didn’t work very well. it happened In 2017, when Carrefour’s real estate subsidiary chose to retain ownership of the complex, until then in the hands of the French administrator Klépierre, with the intention of reforming to revive the facilities. A reform that never bore fruit.
Now the company has decided to join the trend, which has led to a change in the use of these complexes. the decline of businesses that assume the advancement of electronic commerce. In the case of Alicante, a trend driven by the advent technology companiesHE request more office space and the scarcity of current supply of this type of facility.
As he explained lola banonCarrefour Property Spain’s general manager said, “The project represents a paradigm shift in the shopping center industry in our country. first of this size to start under the new concept of ‘working city’, which combines new uses and services and values existing retailers who will have a disruptive added value experience for consumers and society”.
social reactivation
If the mayor of Alicante, luis barcala, congratulated himself for the project and underlined the benefits it will provide to the environment. “This is great news for us. Social, economic and labor revitalization of the neighborhoods of Benalúa, La Florida, San Gabriel and Babel and the surrounding areas where around 55,000 people live,” said the mayor, highlighting the collaboration of the two promotional companies with the Alicante Investment Attraction Office (Alia) to support this pioneering initiative in Spain, which is aligned with the Alicante Futura municipal strategy to attract networking and technology-based companies. “The ‘business city’ of the future will also contribute to the economic and social rebalancing between the Alicante neighborhoods where the City Council works”.
This new business area adds to the enhanced ones. digital zone In Ciudad de la Luz or also in the port of Alicante, where it was converted panoramas, from the entertainment center to the business center. There are other private initiatives, such as those promoted by the entrepreneur. perfect palace On the Ocaña highway.
Owner of Puerta de Alicante Carrefour Real EstateReal estate subsidiary of the French group, Heritage consisting of 115 centers and exceeding 1.8 million square meters Leaseable space in addition to a buildable million-meter portfolio to develop commercial, logistics and mixed-use projects. He is also the leading manager of shopping complexes in Spain, with a portfolio of 2.7 million square meters and the management or administration of 118 assets.
on his behalf Custom Suits is a manager specializing in the transformation of offices. flexible fields, with more than 40,000 meters of leasable space under its management in Spain. Its main goal is to create value in unique assets in secondary cities such as Alicante, Malaga, Valencia or Zaragoza. Its core business has historically been based on the management of co-working spaces, and has evolved into hybrid office spaces that offer value-added services in its business model.