One year, one month and one week after nissan closed its factories in Catalonia, the Japanese firm already formally has a successor. He Barcelona Free Zone Consortium (CZFB) plans to publish this Wednesday the resolution to award the land formerly occupied by the automobile manufacturer to Goodmanaccording to sources familiar with the process.
The decision, which will be signed by the special delegate of the CZFB, Pere Navarrowill allow the real estate group to be the tenant until 2072 of those 517,000 meters of surface -with permission of the small plot that Nissan keeps for its technical center and the other on which it already works silence-. The Australian firm will in turn sublet a large part of the land to the D-Hubthe group of companies led by QEV Technologies and BTechwith which they remain pending some “fringe” to negotiate as with the Consorci, according to the same sources. In any case, it is assumed that all this will be closed between this Wednesday or Thursday.
Despite the details still to be closed, the hypothesis is already being worked on that next February 28 an event is held in Barcelona to celebrate the final agreement in which the Minister of Industry could participateReyes Maroto; and the Business Minister, Roger Torrentamong others to stage that the objective has been reached thanks to collaboration between administrations, according to the sources consulted.
The legal and bureaucratic complexity of the contract -according to they argue- is what has caused the delay of months to reach a definitive solution to reindustrialize the land. Now, the entity directed by Pere Navarro effectively start the process. Still, given how tortuous the road has been so far, fingers are crossed by all parties that the story has a good ending. The Goodman-D-Hub alliance project was the only firm bid, although the companies cilsa and Mecalux they raised “non-binding” offers in case the contest for the land of the Free Zone was deserted. The process to present candidacies was opened on June 29 and has been resolved seven months later.
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The process has suffered several shocks. The Goodman-D-Hub alliance was not the first option and along the way the one preferred by all those involved in the reindustrialization commission (Ministry of Industry, Generalitat, unions, Consorci and Nissan), the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors. Finally it will be the society promoted by Joan Orús. the main manager of Qev Technologies, who industrially replaces Nissan, over which doubts hover over his ability to produce all the vehicles he claims to claim. Doubts that were reflected during his attendance at the Automotive Part, for which the lack of bank guarantees caused him to lose almost half of the public funds to which he opted.
The D-Hub’s commitment is to absorb a large part of the workers left on Nissan Street after its closure. By 2023, he publicly expressed his forecast of hiring between 600 and 800 workersof the 1,300 who were laid off from Nissan and did not take early retirement.