With Nissan’s reindustrialization now in its final phase, the ball is now in Roca Junyent’s court. to award the land that until now was occupied by the Japanese company in the Zona Franca (Barcelona). Putting together the document so that it is unchallengeable is the main concern of the firm, but the first point investors will address will be the rental price, which will have nothing to do with the rent paid by the car company. The factory will go on the market for just over 12 million euros a year.
The port ship was rented for the last decades with an old rental contract. With the renewal of the tenant, the exception will end. The infrastructure will recover market levels and the 518,000 square meters of surface it occupies will be sold at 24 euros per square meter, explain the sources consulted by elEconomista.
The Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, the owner of the land, thus shields itself from possible claims from the owners of other venues, who could have raised their voices if the new investor obtained better conditions. The calculation leaves the annual cost of occupying the facility at 12.4 million.
However, the entity is open to a progressive rental to facilitate the entry of the new tenant. In order to allow you to undertake the necessary investments at your entry, the rent will not reach the maximum figure until the factory is already at full capacity and enabled for its new uses. It will be years before this happens.
The difficulties of the contract
Roca Junyent’s lawyers have been writing the bases of the public call for weeks. , because having the floor unoccupied is an open wound”, they point out from the administration. Joan Roca himself, executive president of the office, supervises its preparation.
The text must go through the reindustrialization table – made up of Nissan, unions, the Government and the Generalitat – where it will be debated and the different agents will try to introduce changes. It remains to be seen if they will be legal. For example: the unions will demand that the contract obliges the investor to respect the conditions agreed with Nissan. Points can be given to companies that comply with the labor agreement, but it is not legal to make it a requirement.
“It will be a bobbin lace”, settle. And it is that the chosen operator must in turn sublet the space, something that must be fine-tuned in the call so as not to give rise to claims. Another example: the decarbonization hub has been chosen to occupy most of the facility, but it cannot be fixed just like that in the agreement in case a third party challenges it. It will have to be done through points and always leaving an open door to free attendance.
More than half of the Barcelona factory (375,000 m2) is reserved for the hub promoted by QEV and Btech. Silence owns 55,000 m2 and two other plots of 30,000 m2 were divided, for which other industrial companies will be sought. The Generalitat is in talks with Hyundai Kefico, which assembles batteries for electric motorcycles, for one of them. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen what happens with the Nissan technical center. The tenant will be able to keep 70,000 m2 for logistical use.
The Australian Goodman, the British JLL, the American Prologis and Cilsa -the joint venture of the Port of Barcelona and Merlin Properties that operates the port logistics area- have already made public their interest.
Summit at SIL: Goodman, Prologis and Merlin face off with Raül Blanco and the Consorci
After offers announced to the media and endless meetings of the reindustrialization table, this week many of the relevant actors for the new life of the Catalan factory will face each other in Barcelona. No official meeting is called; The event takes place at the Barcelona International Logistics Exhibition, where both potential investors and public officials who have a say in the facility will meet.
The congress is organized by the Consorci de la Zona Franca, so the presence of its delegate, Pere Navarro, who will be at several discussion tables, is taken for granted. He will be accompanied by Raül Blanco, Secretary General for Industry, who will visit the Montjuïc fairgrounds on Wednesday afternoon to take part in a session on the use of Next Generation European funds.
The presence of Ignacio García, general director of the Australian company Goodman Group, who showed interest in occupying the plant in January and giving the center logistical and industrial uses and the creation of several data centers, is confirmed for the same day.
He will be accompanied by Dirk Sosef, Vice President of Research at Prologis Europe, and Cristian Oller, General Manager of Prologis Spain, who will present a report on trends in the logistics industry in the country. The multinational promised in February an investment of between 300 and 500 million euros if it was chosen by the reindustrialization table.
He does not appear in any of the talks, but the CEO of Merlin Properties, Ismael Clemente, will also be in the Catalan capital. The socimi shares a shareholding with the Port of Barcelona in Cilsa, the company that manages the ZAL, which also expressed its willingness to participate in the tender.
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