The project is particularly important as it will free up five municipal buildings, with a total of 5,600 square metres of space between them. The buildings will be used to create nearly 70 publicly owned homes, with a further 1,500 square metres of space able to be conditioned as ground-floor commercial premises. The premises in question are at C/ Avinyó,7, 15 and 32, at C/ Ciutat,3, and at C/ Paradís, 14. In addition, the new offices in Via Laietana will also be the home of the Manager’s Office for Safety, Prevention and Coexistence, currently housed in the building in Pl. Carles Pi i Sunyer. Part of this space will be leased to the Catalan Health Service to build the new CAP Gòtic there.

The work now getting under way involves an investment of 8.86 million euros and is expected to take 15 months. The project entails a complete revamp to the three upper floors, which will house the new municipal offices, and a partial renovation of the underground floors. Some structural work will also be carried out on the second, third, fourth and fifth floors, as well as measures to condition some communal spaces, such as entrances, foyers and the rooftop etc.

Once this stage is completed, the spaces inside the building with be ascribed uses and the offices equipped, through a project drafted in parallel and likely to mean another 12 months of work. As a result, municipal staff are expected to be able to move into the premises in the middle of 2026. Initially there will be 220 people, although the goal is for the rest of the municipally owned floors to be progressively reconditioned and more staff to move in, up to a total of 700 municipal workers.

The installation of the new municipal offices in the middle of Via Laietana forms part of a broader set of measures by the City Council to revitalise the city centre and is part of the current transformation process in his area.