The Price of land within large cities makes it impossible for companies to develop their corporate infrastructure in them, and they are forced to look for that space at a more reasonable price in the periphery. Inditex has decided to do exactly the opposite.
The textile giant founded by Amancio Ortega has opted to take the opposite path and bring its next large corporate campus closer to Barcelona and build it next to the iconic Tres Chimeneas, in one of the enclaves of the metropolitan area that is changing the most in recent years. The project plans to move the offices that four of its brands currently have in Tordera (Maresme) to this new space, converting an old industrial land into the new business heart of an area that has been waiting for its opportunity for decades.
An industrial floor that is reinvented. The land chosen for this project is the old site of the Schott Ibérica factory, in Sant Adrià de Besòs, which Inditex acquired in 2018. The local City Council has initially approved an Urban Improvement Plan that covers nearly 90,000 square meters of land, where the brand’s new campus and an Alcampo hypermarket relocated to a new building will coexist.
The new business proposal establishes a clear separation between the commercial use area, to the north, and the Inditex corporate campus, which will occupy most of the complex in the southern area, with 67,243 square meters intended entirely to house different offices of the Inditex brands.
Four brands, one campus. The facilities that Inditex has in Tordera and Palafolls (Maresme) today house the headquarters of Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho and Lefties. With the move to Sant Adrià, these Maresme facilities will be able to dedicate themselves exclusively to logistics, reinforcing the group’s distribution capacity for these four chains in all its markets. The Zara and Zara Home offices are the only ones that do not change their location on the Arteixo campus, at its headquarters in La Coruña, which has also undergone a significant expansion with a complex of about 170,000 square meters.
In Sant Adrià, the new Inditex campus will have a total of 164,098 m2 built distributed in four ground-floor buildings and four floors, organized around three interior patios connected on the ground floor. These buildings will house offices, pattern-making workshops, pilot stores, audiovisual production and technology spaces.
The locomotive that the neighborhood is waiting for. However, the importance of this move lies in the impact on the local economic fabric that the presence of an industrial giant like Inditex provides. The mayor of Sant Adrià, Filo Cañete, considered that the arrival of Inditex represents an exceptional opportunity to position the municipality as a benchmark for innovation and business activity in the metropolitan area, and highlighted that among the reasons that the company has valued most are the location and “good connectivity in public transport with metro, tram and train.”
The campus will bring with it the arrival of around a million workers to a municipality that aspires to become one of the new economic districts of the Barcelona metropolitan area. To this end, the promoters undertake to pay the Sant Adrià City Council some nine million euros to finance two bridges that will connect the campus with the future audiovisual hub of Catalunya Media City, transfer 10% of the urban development generated and restore the chimney of the old CELO factory, classified as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
Our sights set on 2030. The project still has to overcome some steps before becoming a reality. Just as I collected The Newspaperthe town councils of Sant Adrià and Badalona must consolidate the urban plan for the area, necessary by Catalan legislation to authorize large commercial areas of more than 2,500 square meters in municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
With the municipal decree approved on February 27, 2026, a one-month public information period was opened to present allegations. If the deadlines are met, the partial opening of the campus is scheduled for 2028, with the complete completion of the complex around 2030. Inditex has more than 8,500 employees and more than 170 stores in Catalonia, and this new campus will reinforce the axis between Galicia and Catalonia as the backbone of its global activity.
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