Thursday, June 30, 2016

New Plan To present BCN Urban World – The Game Daily (press release) (blog)

The Planning Commission of Tarragona will meet on Thursday to give its initial Recreativo urban master plan and Tourist Center Vilaseca and Salou popularly known as BCN World- approval. Although not revealed for now any details, it is clear that is lowered very significantly space for casinos.

Convergència convinced Esquerra Republicana to take forward the tourism project which will be located next to Port Aventura, which accumulated almost a year of delays, so had generated uncertainty among investors interested, as Melco Asian group and the American Hard Rock.

the approval urban planning, will allow holding the contest to award the final licenses expected three casinos that will launch in the future complex of leisure and entertainment.

the agreement between Convergència and Esquerra involves important technical changes draft. Check the buildable area is reduced. It will increase from one million to 750,000 square meters. This also means that there are fewer areas dedicated to casinos, namely half. The towers will not exceed 75 meters in height compared to 90 the first project.

The story of BCN World began to take shape in the first term of Artur Mas as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia (2010-2012 ). Initially the Government and the community of Madrid Eurovegas installation vied in the state, a project that finally ended discarded.

Then, the Government promoted a redesign of the project and sought new investors. Thus he was born BCN World, where casinos were also a very important component of the complex.

Finally, the new project in the presence of casinos will be greatly reduced, but not yet finalized. In the urban plan initially approved tomorrow, the space for residential, tourist and commercial uses will be implemented, and how will the buildings to be built.

In the morning, the project will be presented in the consortium which was formed two decades ago when it was installed Port Aventura, which brings together the Government and the municipalities of Salou and Vila-Seca.

in the afternoon, the plan was initially approved by the Planning Commission Tarragona, and then open the deadline for submissions. Sources from the Catalan government reported that final approval could take place in November.

Miquel Iceta, first secretary of the PSC (Partit Socialist Party of Catalonia), forced this morning the president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, to advance announcement release, expected to make just four days after the holding of general elections.

construction of the complex is the focus of a deep division in Tarragona, in which CDC (Democratic Convergence de Catalunya) and PSC (Partit Socialist Party of Catalonia) were positioned in favor to blurriness of ERC (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) and the opposition of the CUP (Popular Unity Candidates). In the end, the Republicans took over the project if a downsizing was assumed. Melco, who gave up one of the two prelicencias available to it, paved the way, as the resort is limited to a maximum of three casinos, if Peralada Group, the only Catalan investor remains in the project.

“the work has been done and has been done well,” said Puigdemont, who thanked the support of the PSC and announced that it is scheduled to report “tomorrow morning” approval of the PDU (Urban Development Master Plan) .

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