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14 March 2017, 00:00h
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Sevilla Tower: icon of economic and cultural dynamism in Andalusia
Picture of Sevilla Tower
Picture of Sevilla Tower
Work on the Sevilla Tower shopping centre will represent a cost of 20 million Euro.
CaixaBank will complete a 305 million Euro investment in the Sevilla Tower (www.torre-sevilla.com) architectural ensemble to make it an icon for Andalusia's new economic and cultural dynamism. The financial entity has approved spending 20 million to set up the new Sevilla Tower shopping center. Opening this shopping center will turn Sevilla Tower into a living space, all possible thanks to its different business, commercial and cultural uses.
Although the future shopping center structure has already been built in terms of the podiums, the 20 million Euro investment will be used to fit out the different indoor spaces currently being built.
A whole new shopping experience in Andalusia
The Sevilla Tower shopping center will come up with a whole new shopping experience in Andalusia, an unbelievable model in terms of offer and format that will complement what is already on offer in the city.
Prestigious flagships will be divided between the two podiums –with three and four floors respectively– to create an open air shopping space, adapting the American model of an outdoor shopping mall. This adaptation includes a grand central avenue, like a “High Street” to bring back the traditional concept of a shaded street, with squares at either end. The premises are divided into arcades giving a shopping experience where stores, restaurants and leisure areas come together as a complete leisure offer.
The architecture studio Broadway Malya, winner of international awards for many development, design and architecture projects, are the brains behind the shopping center. Consultants Knight Frank and LyC, are in charge of marketing.
A singular premium hotel run by the Hotusa Group
If the shopping center is well under-way, the Sevilla Tower hotel project is right behind it. Eurostars Hotels Company, the Hotusa Group hotel area, that currently owns 150 hotels in 18 countries, will run this hotel as singular, premium accommodation that will complement the existing offer in the Andalusian capital.
CaixaBank, through Puerto Triana, is currently working to adapt the top 13 floors –a total of around 17,000 sqm – of Sevilla Tower to turn them into the most emblematic accommodation in the Andalusian capital.
Sevilla Tower, focus point of business dynamism in Andalusia
Sevilla Tower already has ten floors occupied by companies distributed as follows: Puerto Triana, Sumasa and Building Center, CaixaBank subsidiaries, occupy the first floor, covering 400 square metres; Active Business & Technology occupies the fourth floor, with 200 square metres; Optima Research & Development, world leader in gaming software and online gambling, also occupies part of the fourth floor, with 630 square metres; Orange España occupies the fifth floor, with 1,400 square metres; the engineering firm Ayesa occupies floors 8, 9, 10 and 11, with 5,400 square metres; the consultancy firm Deloitte occupies floors 12 and 13 with 2,600 square metres; and CaixaBank-Banking Services occupies the second floor, with 1,000 square metres.
This premium office space in Seville is being marketed by Servihabitat, top service provider in managing property and financial assets and exclusive administrator for the CaixaBank Group property assets.
In addition, Sevilla Tower boasts a car park managed by Saba with over 2,800 spaces on three floors, capable of absorbing not only the flow of workers and visitors to the architectural ensemble but also a large proportion of the vehicles owned by 16,000 employees that drive to work every day in the Cartuja Science and Technology Park.
Adapting spaces to companies of different sizes in different fields, efficiency in terms of connectivity for the Isla de la Cartuja with other business nodes in Andalusia and the rest of Spain or the ahigh degree of comfort and sustainability of the building are some of the features that make the Sevilla Tower the flagship of the premium office market in Andalusia.
Promoting culture, citizen initiatives and the environment
The Sevilla Tower architectural ensemble is completed with the recently opened CaixaForum, ”la Caixa” Foundation cultural centre in Andalusia, working to stimulate the cultural offer in Seville and bring together social initiatives that might interest citizens. The eye-catching building offers over 8,000 sqm, representing an additional investment of around 20 million and is scheduled to open during the first half of 2017.
If ”la Caixa” Group's commitment to culture and society comes to life in CaixaForum Seville, the new river-walk along the banks of the Guadalquivir demonstrates CaixaBank's special interest in working on the Isla de la Cartuja respectfully in an attempt to improve such an emblematic space in Seville. Developing the riverbank has involved adapting a 40,000 sqm green zone especially designed for pedestrians and cyclists that will form a large river park, providing the city with welcome breathing space.
A new metal trellis has been set up, 300 m long, featuring bougainvillea and begonias. This work by Vazquez Consuegra also houses the new facilities for the Rowing Centre all following a strict sustainability code.
The sum of the investments made by CaixaBank in the Sevilla Tower architectural ensemble and by ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation in CaixaForum Seville, will rise to a grand total of around 325 million Euros. The skyscraper alone will provide jobs for more than 3,300 persons once it attains full occupation (including 2,350 employees from the different companies that will be located in the Sevilla Tower and a forecast of 1,000 persons directly employed in the future shopping center –these figures do not include the hotel).
