Next Sunday, November 16, Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders will play at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium the first NFL game that will be played in Spainbut from the Real Madrid They are not the only two American football teams to which attention is being paid to this part. Among the extra -sports projects that the white club has is the Raise a technological campus at its Valdebebas facilities. And for this he has set the Dallas Cowboys and their headquarters in Frisco, in Texas.
It was confirmed by the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, when presenting the future project already baptized as Madrid Innovation Districtalthough very little is known about him. “In Real Madrid we have carried out a deep analysis of the most relevant cases and we have studied the most consolidated of those that exist in the world, including the campus that the Dallas Cowboys have developed in Texas, which is similar to what we intend to do here,” he said.
Digital recreation of the future Madrid Innovation Distict that Immpulsa the Real Madrid in Valdebebas. / REAL MADRID
In Frisco, in an extension of about 37 hectares, the American football team has, in addition to its stadium, an entire leisure area with about thirty restaurants and stores, but also work spaces open to other companies or an advanced sanitary complex of 28,000 square meters in a nine -storey building.
The idea that in the merengue entity for Madrid Innovation District goes even further. What is intended is allocate 85 of the 120 hectares that Real Madrid has in Valdebebasin the northeastern area of the capital, to create what Pérez calls “The largest technological district in Europe”. The intention is to concentrate there companies in the technological sector but also academic institutions and research centers that serve as “motor” of innovation.
The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez (center), among the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. / REAL MADRID
The White President is convinced that it is a “unique opportunity” to make Madrid “the great technological capital of southern Europe.” It remains to be seen how that campus would be, for which names of interested companies or possible deadlines have not yet been advanced to start it. The project was presented in the city of Real Madrid of Valdebebas itself at a meeting with representatives of the Community of Madrid and the City Council headed by the regional president itself, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and Sports Sciences
Both institutions have shown their support to the Real Madrid plan, which, according to a note from the Community of Madrid, It will attract a foreign investment of 8.5 billion euros and will serve to create around 25,000 qualified jobs. He emphasizes artificial intelligence, biotechnology and sports sciences. Ayuso spoke of “an exciting challenge.” Almeida, meanwhile, stressed that “where there are 85 hectares empty content today, we will have one of the great transformation engines of the city of Madrid that will make it the great 'hub' of Europe.”
It is especially trusted in the location of the place, next to the Madrid airport and in particular to its T4 and the IFEMA fairgrounds. The environment will also suffer a great transformation in the coming years with the construction in the vicinity of the future city of Justice, which from 2026 will begin to house all the Madrid judicial units to be completed in 2028. And it will win in international projection when, since 2026, the Spain Grand Prix of Formula 1 is disputed in the urban circuit already in Madrid works, which partially passes Valdebebas.
In any case, it is still a very preliminary project and that almost everything is to be known. In the presentation the press was not summoned. Some digital recreations of how it could be distributed, but they are not at all the final stamp. It is accentuated in these images, yes, what Florentino Pérez has described as “avant -garde architecture”, “sustainability icon” and making nature “a differential element”.
