Post by account_disabled on Feb 11, 2024 4:23:50 GMT -6
Like fashion, retail is cyclical. What worked yesterday, doesn't work today. Concepts that were profitable at the time, years later cease to be so. However, retail is a business that always enjoys second chances, and this is what a private investor wants to give to the iconic Vía Wagner Galleries in Barcelona , although with a twist: as explained to idealista/news sources close to the project, this complex will reopen focused on the office business and gastronomy .
These galleries closed their doors in 1993, and since then they Australia Telemarketing Data gone through many phases: squats, a fire in 2003, a rat infestation and their total abandonment, as they are today. The asset is in the hands of three owners. Two of them, who make up the majority of the property, and a group of 10 owners who operate under the same umbrella. As idealista/news has been able to confirm, the group made up of ten owners is not aware of this project, so the negotiation will drag on over time.
Its reopening would also be due to continuous complaints from neighborhood residents, who claim that the façade continually falls apart due to its neglect. The City Council has opened two files on the property due to the poor condition of the facades, which are currently in process.
Although the project will ultimately be 100% focused on profitability , the neighborhood association complained that the lack of facilities in the neighborhood could have been solved if the City Council had exercised the right of first refusal and purchased a part of the galleries to convert it into a day center for the elderly. The owner has finally decided to make a profit from this property and turn it into an office and commercial complex.
The project, which is currently in the offices of the OUA architecture studio, involves converting the galleries into 2,500 m2 of offices and 500 m2 of 'rooftop' to install a gastronomic concept. At the moment, all the licenses are pending from Barcelona City Council, so for now there is nothing official.
Some galleries with a lot of history
Inaugurated on November 15, 1985, the Via Wagner galleries were an attempt to extend the fashion of commercial galleries, an intermediate step between the conventional store and the large shopping center, in the upper area of Barcelona, in a wealthy neighborhood. The Via Wagner were located on the large island delimited by Diagonal-Beethoven -Bori i Fontestà and Ganduxer, around Wagner Square, in the interior of the island. This gallery housed nearly a hundred small stores, mostly fashion stores, where the best brands were present, according to an article on the Barcelophilia blog.
Starting in 1992, business began to drift and stores progressively closed. The appearance of the galleries was increasingly pitiful. A letter from the owner of one of the stores denounced to the press speculative movements for forcing the few remaining stores to leave business in the face of an alleged purchase offer for the entire premises. In June of that same year, the galleries' offices were destroyed by fire. This fact would definitively precipitate its end, which meant a progressive degradation of the space with the closed premises offering an appearance of abandonment.
These galleries closed their doors in 1993, and since then they Australia Telemarketing Data gone through many phases: squats, a fire in 2003, a rat infestation and their total abandonment, as they are today. The asset is in the hands of three owners. Two of them, who make up the majority of the property, and a group of 10 owners who operate under the same umbrella. As idealista/news has been able to confirm, the group made up of ten owners is not aware of this project, so the negotiation will drag on over time.
Its reopening would also be due to continuous complaints from neighborhood residents, who claim that the façade continually falls apart due to its neglect. The City Council has opened two files on the property due to the poor condition of the facades, which are currently in process.
Although the project will ultimately be 100% focused on profitability , the neighborhood association complained that the lack of facilities in the neighborhood could have been solved if the City Council had exercised the right of first refusal and purchased a part of the galleries to convert it into a day center for the elderly. The owner has finally decided to make a profit from this property and turn it into an office and commercial complex.
The project, which is currently in the offices of the OUA architecture studio, involves converting the galleries into 2,500 m2 of offices and 500 m2 of 'rooftop' to install a gastronomic concept. At the moment, all the licenses are pending from Barcelona City Council, so for now there is nothing official.
Some galleries with a lot of history
Inaugurated on November 15, 1985, the Via Wagner galleries were an attempt to extend the fashion of commercial galleries, an intermediate step between the conventional store and the large shopping center, in the upper area of Barcelona, in a wealthy neighborhood. The Via Wagner were located on the large island delimited by Diagonal-Beethoven -Bori i Fontestà and Ganduxer, around Wagner Square, in the interior of the island. This gallery housed nearly a hundred small stores, mostly fashion stores, where the best brands were present, according to an article on the Barcelophilia blog.
Starting in 1992, business began to drift and stores progressively closed. The appearance of the galleries was increasingly pitiful. A letter from the owner of one of the stores denounced to the press speculative movements for forcing the few remaining stores to leave business in the face of an alleged purchase offer for the entire premises. In June of that same year, the galleries' offices were destroyed by fire. This fact would definitively precipitate its end, which meant a progressive degradation of the space with the closed premises offering an appearance of abandonment.