The Cádiz Free Trade Zone Consortium has sent the announcement of prior information for the tender for the new Algeciras Services Building to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), an essential requirement to advance the deadlines for the tender for the works, which will take place imminently.
According to the announcement, the tender budget is 7,816,992.41€ VAT not included and the execution period is one year. The work, which is put out to tender with a mixed contract with the purchase and sale of property owned by the Consortium or, where appropriate, provision of guarantee through bank guarantee, is co-financed with European funds and also has a Reindustrialization aid loan of 8 million euros, 100% of the request made by the Consortium for its execution.
The project, which is built on a municipally owned plot of 4,000 square meters located on Avenida Juan Pérez Arriete, includes the construction of a modern Business Center of 8,445.59 square meters, which will include a parking lot with capacity for 80 vehicles and more than 5,000 square meters of offices for entrepreneurs.
The good reception that the Almanzor Business Center has had, which Zona Franca has managed since 2004 in the La Menacha Industrial Estate, with an occupancy of more than 90%, motivated the need to launch a project with similar characteristics in the heart of the city, next to the Campo de Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce building to meet the needs of the business fabric of Algeciras and the Region.
Background
This new Business Center is a clear example of the need for collaboration between institutions to promote the business community and, therefore, employment in the province. Specifically, on April 23, the State delegate in the Free Zone Consortium, Jorge Ramos Aznar, presented the project for the new building to the mayor of Algeciras, Jose Ignacio Landaluce, highlighting already then the close collaboration between the Free Zone and the Algeciras City Council.
"Algeciras is an example of the provincial vocation of the Free Trade Zone, from the perspective of the actions carried out in recent years such as the Business Center that is in Menacha and the SDA company, dedicated to archives; now we come to finish this project that the city needs to achieve what I call a backbone of entrepreneurs in the Paseo de la Cornisa of Algeciras and that integrates magnificently into the style of vanguard next to the Chamber of Commerce building,” declared Ramos.