The dismantling of the structures and cleaning up the area represents an important step in the revitalization of the exterior industrial estate.
LThe operation will begin after the granting of the municipal permit and will last for six months
The Free Trade Zone of Cádiz has requested this Wednesday from the capital's City Council for a construction license to proceed with the demolition of the existing buildings on the plot of the old Pastoriza Workshops, a site located in the outer industrial estate at the entrance to the city through the Carranza Bridge.
Once this permit is granted, the work of dismantling the structures and collapsing the construction will begin, which has a period of six months. To speed up the start of the process, the technical department of the Consortium has completed the necessary procedures to proceed with the bidding for the work, so the publication will be carried out imminently and in parallel with the granting of the permit by the Consistory.
In this way, the Consortium takes another step in the recovery of different plots of the outdoor area in order to recover spaces that were obsolete and in decline and convert them into attractive settings for the establishment of companies.
In this case, to the recovery of an important space in the industrial estate, is added the fact that it affects the image of an access area to the capital of Cadiz, which will be considerably improved.
The works will affect a significant part of the existing buildings on this plot, located at the confluence of Algeciras and Alcalde Sánchez Cossío streets and whose construction dates back to the early 70s of the 20th century.
The Pastoriza ships housed an industry linked to the naval sector, where boilermaking work was carried out for the manufacture of blocks and other metal elements that make up the ships. All types of materials, tools and consumables aimed at the same industrial sector were also sold.
The total area of the plot is 9,422 m², it has a constructed area of 9,935 m², although the work in this first phase of the work affects a part of the building, specifically 7,050 m².
The existing office building, which includes changing rooms and shops with a total of 972 m2 on the ground floor, has a transformation center owned by Eléctrica de Cádiz attached to it with access from Sánchez Cossio street and will not be affected in this phase of the work.
In this context, it must be remembered that a week before the confinement due to Covid 19, the State delegate, Victoria Rodríguez, and the director of Feder Projects of the Incyde Foundation, Natalia Vázquez, offered a press conference in which they presented the subsidy of 2.5 million euros granted by the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain Feder 2014-2020 "A way of making Europe" and managed by the Incyde Foundation.
This subsidy will facilitate the implementation of the first phase of the Base Zone project, which will be located on the old Ibérica Aga plot, another disused plot of land that the Zona Franca is developing to convert into a Center for Innovation and Technological Expansion, which will include a highly innovative incubator dedicated to the Blue Economy sector.