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The impulse to the regeneration of the Expo enclosure still leaves pending fronts
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The impulse to the regeneration of the Expo enclosure still leaves pending fronts

Aug 4, 2025

The 2027 horizon in the city of Saragossa, with the new Romareda or the Goya Center, it has a touchstone in the enclosure of the 2008 Expo. After years of abandonment, and despite the use of spaces such as office buildings, the city of justice and the attached courts, the reform of the water tower and the possible new uses to the peanuts and the pavilion of Aragon They represent a new push to the space of Ranillas Avenue, which despite everything will have pending fronts almost two decades after the Aragonese capital was showed to the world.

Expo Zaragoza Empresarial has brought together the two contracts related to the Torre del Agua, which today constitute the greatest investment in the environment: 5.9 million to adapt the interior, which will now have a viewpoint, restaurant, and exhibition halls and conferences, and almost the same (5.6) for the exterior facade with 9,000 square meters of luminaires, according to the project of the company of the company. Also of the Las Vegas sphere. In total, 11.2 million without VAT waiting for offers. The works are expected to begin the last quarter of this year and that they last until the end of the one that comes, with an eye on the International Logistics Congress of February 2027.

It aims to overcome the investment of the ‘peanut’ Ebro 3 to be the new headquarters of the Aragonese Radio and Television Corporation. In October last year, the drafting of the project was awarded to the study of Lamela for just over half a million euros, although without estimates of the cost of the works.

This is the largest building of the five, where the Cartv expects to have 14,000 square meters to move from the summer of 2027. For that, the works should be completed between January and February of that year, according to the specifications.

Thepower University, one of the private campuses that aims to be implemented in Aragon, could occupy number four. The Minister of Development and the manager of Expo Zaragoza Empresarial, Octavio López, announced this Friday the beginning of the process with the tender for the drafting of the construction project, for which they estimate between fifteen and 20 million euros of investment, also above the last forecasts on the Torre del Agua.

According to the same counselor, another relevant company at national and international level could be in the rest of peanuts. On the other hand, in the fifth there are several court courts and No. 2 of the commercial. The numbers one and two are still available, next to the walker Berta Cáceres.

In sum, different solutions that could give new use to these spaces after the construction of affordable rental housing for young people was discarded, which was one of the stars proposals of President Javier Lambán in the last regional elections. After the elections, and with the acting government, the Board of Directors of the public company participated by the DGA decided to park the project for cost overruns that raised the package of 50 to 77 million euros.

The proximity with the Ebro and the danger as a flood zone also comes into play. An issue, without going any further, which is collected in the master lines for the new house of radio and public television and will force to reinforce the lower plants.

The Pavilions of Aragon and Spain

Regarding the Aragon Pavilion, the Ministry of Health He valued it at the time as an ideal headquarters to host the State Public Health Agency, which Zaragoza aspires. To the second, the bill that guarantees it went ahead in Congress last July and the entire selection process remains ahead, led by the Ministry of Territorial Policy.

A few meters away, the Spain It is one of the main disuse spaces. The last proposal that survived the facilities was that of the INAEM entrepreneurship and innovation center, still with Lambán as president, although he ended up in the drawer.

Amphitheater and Water Park

Last year the partial face washing of the amphitheater took place, enabled as one of the scenarios of the Vive Latino festival. On the other side of the avenue, the Water Park, the Water Canal, the beaches and the ranillas spa have not run the same fate. The latter is expected to reopen, although not with the same uses.