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Luis Barcala with the presidents of the EGM. A.A.
Alicante Plans to Expand Industrial Belt by Two Million Square Metres

Alicante Plans to Expand Industrial Belt by Two Million Square Metres

Mayor Luis Barcala Meets with Presidents of Four Management and Modernisation Entities to Review Future Projects and Industrial Development Measures

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Alicante

Miércoles, 15 de enero 2025, 14:30

Mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, held a meeting on Wednesday with the presidents of the four Management and Modernisation Entities (EGM). During the meeting, the mayor emphasised the need to provide new industrial land.

Thus, the mayor met with the presidents of the EGM of Las Atalayas, Francisco Samper; Aguamarga, Luis Mascaró; Ocaña Avanza, Pedro Meseguer, and the manager of Pla de la Vallonga, Juan Luis Escoda, to review projects for the development of business areas that form the industrial belt, aiming to improve access and public transport networks alongside the expansion of more than two million square metres, in addition to those already planned in Las Atalayas and the University of Alicante Science Park.

Alicante currently has 10 business areas, in addition to the University of Alicante Science Park and the Port hub, providing around 15,000 jobs and generating an annual turnover exceeding 2.4 billion euros. Barcala also highlighted the recent implementation of the 7P urban bus line to connect industrial areas, as well as future studies for the arrival of the TRAM or even the possibility of establishing a stop on the commuter rail line with the future development of the Torrellano variant.

Barcala also addressed the need to undertake new urbanisation of the roadways and access to the Ocaña road in its industrial spaces, including Mercalicante, and significant logistics companies that result in a high volume of truck traffic.

The mayor was accompanied by the Councillor for Employment and Promotion and head of the Local Development Agency, Mari Carmen de España; the Councillor for Infrastructure and Maintenance, Cristina García, and the Director General of Employment, Business Promotion and New Economy of the Alicante City Council, Vicente Seguí.

Industrial Land

The mayor explained that during 2024, various procedures and technical studies have continued to expand the industrial land available to the city. At present, preliminary studies are already underway with the Generalitat to expand "Atalayas, business city" by 650,000 m² and the UA Science Park by 800,000 m²; and we have more than 2 million square metres identified in the 2018 study for the development of the industrial belt, which would allow the development of new modern, sustainable, technological industrial areas with all kinds of facilities and services.

"Our programme to improve Industrial Areas aims to develop a high-quality industrial and business belt that becomes a green corridor integrated into the landscape, encompassing the city's industrial areas, serving as a benchmark in advanced areas of the 21st century, and positioning Alicante as a major hub of business dynamism in the southern Mediterranean diagonal, in a clear commitment to boosting the industrial sector in the city's economy," emphasised Luis Barcala.

New EGM

The mayor highlighted the effort made by the Local Development Agency in promoting new EGM for the development and modernisation of business areas, with Alicante being the city in the Valencian Community with the most established entities, four in total, with Las Atalayas being one of the first to achieve the classification as an Advanced Area.

This consideration of production spaces established in the Valencian Law on the Modernisation of Industrial Areas allows, in addition to determining their level of services, access to better financing conditions for project development with the collaboration of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE). "We will continue working to create new EGM in all the city's industrial areas," emphasised the mayor.

Million-Euro Investment

Over the past five years, Alicante has allocated more than four million euros to modernising the city's industrial areas, allowing progress in areas such as road improvement, lighting renewal with LED technology, security and traffic control improvement with the installation of intelligent control cameras, or the installation of informative signage, new hydrants, and sensors for air quality control, in addition to improving urbanisation conditions by expanding parking spaces, landscaping, and launching a new urban bus line, the 7P, which connects the city centre with industrial areas up to Las Atalayas, or developing projects such as car sharing by establishing 17 reserved parking spaces, among other projects.

The mayor explained that through IVACE, 1.5 million euros were invested in 2024, two million if 2023 is included, in road improvement plans. Specifically, in Las Atalayas, the main artery, Avenida de la Antigua Peseta, was asphalted and improved with access and roundabouts, with an investment of 561,892 euros in 2023, in addition to undertaking the first non-tactical roundabout in the Valencian Community, introducing a garden area and pedestrian crossings in its central space.

In 2024, the asphalting of two other important streets in Las Atalayas, Libra and Euro, was completed with another 784,094 euros, which have been recently finished. Reinforcement works were also carried out on the firm in Pla de la Vallonga for 325,463 euros and energy efficiency improvements in Aguamarga by renewing all its public lighting for another 217,877 euros, as well as in APD21 in Mercalicante, where another 218,646 euros were allocated for cable replacement and LED lighting installations. "All these actions have been financed by IVACE, making 2024 the year of the highest direct investment in Alicante's industrial areas," emphasised Luis Barcala.

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