Updated: 27.06.2020 00:44 h.
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The opportunity, for the smartest. The Madrid City Council is already negotiating with the promoters of the sub-headquarters of the Museo Hermitage in Spain. The mayor’s team José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP) has confirmed contacts on “location” and “museum project” the same day that Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, has once again rejected the investment for Barcelona in a municipal plenary session.
This has been confirmed by the press spokesperson of the city council of the capital to questions from this medium. The office has indicated that “during these months conversations are being held with the promoters of the Museum. Issues related to the future location and its museum project, among others, are discussed. “Where are these negotiations at?” For now, we cannot be more precise, since these conversations are still ongoing, “added the same source. official.
BComú rejects the project again …
The information that Madrid has already begun formal contacts with the promoters of the Museo Hermitage in Barcelona – the Swiss-Luxembourg fund Varia and the company Cultural Developements Barcelona, linked to the architect Eugenio Shy Pallarés – is known the same day that Barcelona en Comú (BComú), the match of Ada Colau, has once again slammed the gallery projected in the Port. The confluence of the left has reiterated its refusal to authorize the work. It has done so during the June municipal plenary session.
Toyo Ito’s architectural proposal for the Barcelona branch of the Hermitage / CG Museum
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In that session, Barcelona pel Canvi (BxC), a broad platform led by the former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, has proposed “to negotiate as soon as possible” with the Port and investors to close the construction of a cultural agora that would employ 400 people. The BxC proposal has garnered the support of Ciudadanos, Junts per Catalunya and the PP. ERC has abstained and BComú and PSC have voted against. The deputy mayor of Urbanism, Janet Sanz (BComú), has warned that they will not endorse urban development. The proposition has failed.
… and Madrid does what it promised
While in Barcelona the anger over whether or not to give permission to Museo HermitageMadrid works quietly and effectively. José Luis Martínez-Almeida’s team promised in January that they would try to capture the investment if the Catalan capital rejected it. Immediately afterwards, he announced that the Urbanism team was already preparing site proposals for the art gallery sub-office located in Saint Petersburg (Russia). Without a continuity solution came the crisis of Mobile World Congress (MWC) – which the capital also sought to attract due to the political anxiety in Catalonia – and the pandemic.
Now him City of Madrid confirms discreet talks not only to close the site where the equipment designed by Toyo Ito, but also about his own museum concept. What will happen in Barcelona? Yes Colau and yours drop the investment, the Nova Bocana del Puerto plot will be offered to the highest bidder. It has a commercial and cultural use, the latter conditioned to an approval of the town hall. The Barcelona Port Authority (APB) has already warned that commercial facilities –such as the outlet proposing a Chinese investment fund, as it advanced Open Metropolis– It would not require the municipal license. For their part, to the repudiated investors of the Hermitage they would only have the way of the patrimonial claim.
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