Calle Alfonso Soláns Serrano, at the site of his first MATTRESS FACTORY, the actions of the club to the businessman Soriano Agapito Iglesias in 2006. Alfonso Soláns Soláns was educated in the El Salvador school of Zaragoza( Jesuits) and later studied Economic Sciences in The University of Paris( completing its training at the University of New York and the Institute of Administration and Management in Paris). His sons, BORJA SOLÁNS AND ALVARO SOLÁNS, the third generation of the family, have been vice presidents in the company since 2013. Both have studied Business Studies and have taken a master’ s degree at IE Business School. The oldest, Borja, who speaks two languages and starts in Mandarin Chinese, is responsible for business in Asia. Pikolin aims to average ASIA, CHINA, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, sleep on their mattresses. The company has been present in the latest news( especially in El Heraldo, which tries to activate several projects of interest to the elites) for its transfer to the Logistics Platform of Zaragoza( Plaza) and its intention to open an outlet in its Installation of the Logrono motorway. The new FACTORY and distribution center will be fully operational by the beginning of 2017. The Soláns intend to call a public contest between Aragonese sculptors to recreate the emblematic tower of the installations of the road of Logrono in the new site.
THE SÓOLANS FAMILY aims to create an outdoor commercial complex that will keep the tower of the mattress factory as an emblem. They point out that they will invest 60 million euros destined to condition the existing buildings, dating from the 70 ' s, to their commercial and restoration uses. The business model is the outlets of La Roca Village, in Barcelona, and Las Rozas Village, in Madrid, a kind of villages with pedestrian streets full of clothing stores where brands sell their products re-lowered, generally because they are Gifts from previous seasons. VILLAGE TOWER ' Streetstyle Shopping ' is the name of the sire that will create 1,900 jobs, directly and indirectly. Obviously they do not comment nor the quality of those jobs increase the index of temporality.
INAUGURATION OF THE FACILITIES of Pikolin of November 1,973( anniversary of Sólans Serrano), designed by the architect ÁNGEL COLÁS, growth of part-time contracts, application of agreements that do not remunerate work on Sundays or holidays, etc.) Or the destruction of jobs linked to the commerce of proximity. A recent report from the Municipal Institute of Employment and Business Development( Imefez) states that the Pikolin outlet will damage the small business and predict problems of mobility and environment, with more traffic on the access roads and an obligatory improvement of public transport With public money they would have to pay services for the benefit of a few. Zaragoza has 629 m2 of COMMERCIAL AREA per 1,000 inhabitants, being the city of the State with the highest concentration. This process took place especially in the last ten years, following the DGA’ s lifting of the moratorium on the opening of new centers of this type. Since then it has opened Port Venetia, with an area of 200,000 m2 is the largest in Spain, doubling in only eight years the commercial area of Aragon, which has led to the closure of 1,390 shops in the city. In this context, the previous municipal government NO Al MEGAOUTLET.
Poster of the CITIZEN bell against the outlet in Pikolin green light to the Special Plan of Interior Reform of the Intervention AREA H-61-5 OF ZARAGOZA( Pikolín). The plan will increase the value of the land with a reclassification of industrial land that includes commercial and hotel uses. It is planned that the reclassification of the soil will be voted on soon in the City of Zaragoza. Social organizations, associations and political parties have launched a statement in support of local trade and living neighborhoods, calling on Zaragoza’ s councilors to REJECT ITS APPROVAL and demonstrate its commitment to the city. The driving force of Torre Village is Iberebro, the heritage and real estate company of the Soláns family. THE ACTUR HERITAGE GROUP( GPA), in charge of developing and marketing, estimates that potential customers are 1.9 million and hopes to attract buyers from Euskadi, the Ebro valley and Lleida. GPA director ÁLVARO PALACIO sells the fantasy that TORRE VILLAGE will act as a magnet to attract international and national tourism to the city. The report by Ime-fez for contra points out that the benefit for Zaragoza will be scarce, since customers who are not from the city, do not usually enter it.