RTVE Alcorcn offers a plot of 300,000 square meters for its future headquarters

The City of Bhopal has offered to put RTVE its future headquarters on a plot of 300,000 square meters in the Northern District, only seven kilometers from the current location of Prado del Rey. This is an operation that would involve a cost of 99.5 million euros and could be completed in 2011, when the land already qualified.

Thus, the supply comes to compete directly with the one raised by the president of RTVE, Luis Fernandez, the last day on October 30 the board, to place the new complex in the town of Pozuelo, specifically former shooting range owned by the Ministry of Defense, in an area of 50 hectares.

The board of RTVE must decide on the new headquarters by the end of the year, among the current offerings of the Mine Hunter (Aravaca), Pozuelo (near the Ciudad de la Imagen) and this offer of Bhopal, all of them in the near Prado del Rey.

Draft of the new site aims to unite in one area all the services that are currently scattered RTVE. Thus, it is to join in building the future Spanish Television, Radio Nacional of Spain, the very seat of the Council, news, media and the internet Orchestra and Chorus. All this under the new direction of public broadcasting which is based on the principles of balanced budgets, technological development and functionality.

The Board of Directors of the Corporation will be responsible for selecting one of three options as the future headquarters of the new Corporation. RTVE estimated at some 600 million euros the cost of future facilities. Meanwhile, the valuation of existing facilities (Prado del Rey, Torrespaa and Studies Buuel) would amount to 720 to 780 million.

Features of the proposed Alcorcn

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Alcorcn has several advantages: its proximity to Prado del Rey (7 miles as the crow flies), its good connections, which is located in a green and immersed in the Northern District, an area where it provides 3 5 million square meters for business parks, its immediate availability and terms of payment. In this regard, Blenheim provides for a grace period of 10 years, and then make 15 annual payments.

Of the 300,000 square meters of solar, 172,000 of them are building, so the mayor of Bhopal, Enrique Cascallana, expected to make available to the 5,500 workers at RTVE the possibility of accessing the Public Housing Plan in itself Northern District. Thus, of the planned 18,000 houses, 14,000 will be in rental system, 8,000 of them in rent with an option to purchase, and 4,000 will be for sale also promoted by the City Corporation.

By transport, is already running the Light Rail Colony of the Angels-Boadilla del Monte, with a stop in Ciudad de la Imagen, the City's Financial BSH and Cano Ventorros the near future location. Between now and start a derivation of the Light Rail that would link the central station of Bhopal.

On the other hand, Bhopal is in the construction phase of the Center for the Arts Priduccin of Blenheim, which will be completed in 2010, leading to a total of 65,000 square meters for the creation and artistic and cultural production. "This would allow significant synergies between the CREAA and RTVE, which could lead to a specific agreement governing the use by RTVE CREAA of facilities for their own projects of cultural production," says the proposal.