The Madrid City Council will requalify the empty lands in the sports city of the Real Madrid from the Valdebebas neighborhood to carry out the Madrid Innovation Center projectas reported on Wednesday five days. A change of land use must be approved, changing sports for the tertiary so -called, that is, for offices.
This will imply giving much more value to that land of the white team. However, the news has not had a good reception from the municipal opposition.
“It's a full -fledged ball. The plot is of private sporting dotational use and everything that is done in it has to be linked to that sports use, ”said Rita Maestre, municipal spokesman for more Madrid, in five days.
“Florentino Pérez has not hidden it, his goal is to make the club's heritage profitable and there is Almeida, to the rescue, to favor a lucrative use of a plot that today they have in disuse. So there are two options: or try to make up a sports bond of technological business projects although in practice they have nothing to do with sport, or modify the general plan and change the use”He added.
Meanwhile, councilor and spokesman of the Municipal Group of the PSOE in urban planning, it has also been pronounced: “From the PSOE we have nothing against this type of innovation centers, quite the opposite, but it is already a coincidence that just one of the changes that were introduced into the bun Owners to taste of the consumer. “
“In this case, the same owner (for acting together with ACS, a company chaired by Pérez) who has casually won the contest of the City of Justice that, casually, is on the sidewalk in front. When we know the project we can value it, but for now we have only seen two figures and some renders. Nothing about how it will come true at a technical level“He said.
Madrid Innovation Center
Last Wednesday, Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, presented the Macroproject Madrid Innovation Center, accompanied by Martínez-Almeida and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid. The club pointed out in a statement that this initiative would take place in the 850,000 square meters that it has available in Valdebebas. “Real Madrid will contribute a unique and high potential space to carry out the project,” explains the informative note. “This is a privileged enclave with a strategic location next to the Adolfo Suárez and IFEMA airport”it is added. Development will require 8,500 million euros of investment, according to Díaz Ayuso at the event.
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 objective of this initiative is to attract the implementation of headquarters of the world's world innovation companies, together with other types of companies with more technological vocation, “Generating synergies and a collaborative environment”according to the Madrid statement. Real Madrid as the promoter of the idea, together with the City Council and the Regional Government, expect companies, researchers and entrepreneurs to work together in this new space. At the moment, the number of real estate and square meters that will be built is unknown.
The urban options that could be used go through construction in a small part of the plot through the alternative uses of the land; a special plan to requalify them or; As they finally indicate from the Department of Urban Planning, it will bet on a modification of the General Plan.
Real Madrid landed in Valdebebas precisely after another requalification of its former sports city in the north of the Paseo de la Castellana, some floors that Madrid – under the presidency of Pérez – sold in 2001 as tertiary and where the known as four towers were built. The new facilities of the White Club in the northeast outskirts of the city were inaugurated in 2005. The entity has a plot of 1.2 million square meters, where sports equipment (including the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium) occupies around 400,000 m2.
