Yesterday, Thursday afternoon, the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz carried out the ceremony to lay the first stone for the construction of the Algeciras Administrative Building, on the plot next to the city's Chamber of Commerce. The event was attended by the president and the delegate of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone Consortium, Teófila Martínez and Jorge Ramos; the mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce; the deputy delegate of the Government, Javier de Torre, and the General Director of Industry and SMEs, Manuel Valle Muñoz, as well as representatives of the winning company Vías y Construcciones S.A.
The contract for the action, whose rethinking report will be carried out next Tuesday the 23rd and which has a loan from the Ministry of Industry for Reindustrialization Aid, amounts to 4,796,574.98 euros VAT not included and has an execution period of one year. The Consortium put out to tender the works on November 20, with a balance of 27 offers presented.
The initiative that Zona Franca undertakes in Algeciras 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 project is built on a municipally owned plot of 4,000 square meters located on Avenida Juan Pérez Arriete, next to the Algeciras Chamber of Commerce.
This new building is a clear example of the need for collaboration between institutions to promote the business fabric of the municipalities. Furthermore, the project consolidates the presence of the Free Trade Zone in Algeciras, where it already has a Business Center in the Almanzor building, in the Menacha industrial estate, with an occupancy of more than 90%, which motivated the launch of a project with similar characteristics in the heart of the city, next to the Campo de Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce building, to thus meet the needs of the business fabric of Algeciras and the Region.
Zona Franca also has a branch of the company Servicios Documentales de Andalucía in Algeciras, also in the Menacha industrial estate, dedicated to the custody of files and document management.