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Expaciomérida, the Park's southern Industrial development of Extremadura

Drafting Interempresas05/02/2010

February 5, 2010

The Park of industrial development in the South of Extremadura projected by the city of Mérida and the Junta de Extremadura is marketed under the name Expaciomérida and whose work initial, consisting of the works of urbanization of the first phase has already begun. The development of this business area is marked as general purpose constitute a powerful incentive capable of attracting the introduction of new companies in this city based on the offer of a space adequate, equipped with all the services and at a competitive price.

Southern Industrial Development park beside the kilometre 633 of the N-630, Bodegas Viña Santa Marina and next to the motorway A-66.

Expaciomérida is one of the most ambitious industrial infrastructure staffing projects promoted to date in the region. The implementation of the Park will allow to sell a total of 1.360.271 square metres over industrial land urbanized after conclusion of the five phases of development under 207 hectares.

Southern Industrial Development park beside the kilometre 633 of the N-630, Bodegas Viña Santa Marina and next to the motorway A-66. According to the forecasts of the Junta de Extremadura, 210 companies of all kinds will be available and will allow the creation of 5,300 jobs with an investment of 990 million euros from firms that are installed on their plotsthat they will have a surface area of between 8,000 and 87,000 square meters. Access will be through the N-630, with two direct access to the motorway A-66. A few meters away is the railway line, which enables the connection with an area reserved for the intermodality of transport.

This new industrial area will be endowed with all the services necessary for their proper development, with gross and drinking water supply and wastewater treatment of waste itself. It will also have electrical substation in order to ensure the quality of electricity, natural gas, and fiber optic networks, as well as other value service added as surveillance perimeter and interior of the enclosure, clean point for centralized of recoverable residues or green areas and rest collection. Complementary services include a building of multiple uses, with a unique design, offices, showrooms and congresses, rest areas and a business centre offering: EMAG (multifunctional building of support and management).

The immediate incorporation of entrepreneurs will be provided in the facilities provided, offering offices you modular, areas for congresses and training classrooms. Among the additional services are also cited incubators of companies, crèches, rest areas, consulting or clusters that are considered necessary for the proper exercise of a professional, and business activity with the latest technologies, facilitating also the immediate implementation of the undertakings concerned.

Provided for surfaces

P.I.R. definitively approved in Decree 166/2008 of 1 August 2008, by the Government Council of the Junta of Extremadura:

Industrial surface: 1.293.267 m²
Tertiary surface: 10,000 m²
Surface area: 209.573 m²
Sector–specific surface: 104.922 m²

First phase in March

Construction of the Park's southern Industrial Development, known as Expaciomérida, have begun in the plot chosen by the Junta de Extremadura for a new initiative that seeks the establishment of new companies in a strategic location. Work began at the end of last year, but heavy rains have slowed land movements.

Work has begun for the urbanization of the first phase, which includes the development of 49.3 hectares. The competition for the execution of these works was awarded last July to the companies Placonsa and roads and buildings for an amount of almost € 9.2 billion. Draft general budget of the autonomous region for 2010 raises investment over this exercise 13,78 million euros due to the remnant of the past year. In principle, the performance was expected to begin at the end of last summer. However, the necessary procedures for the award of contracts (also was carried out during the past year the Commission of technical assistance) and, especially, the expropriation of land required, have delayed the start of construction. As it appears the resolution which was launched last September the application of forced expropriation and urgent occupation of the property affected the development of the Industrial Park South of Extremadura, the forecast of the regional administration is carrying out the precommercialization of farms throughout the first half of 2010, to promote the implementation of the companies at the end of this year and its operationalization in the middle of the next. At the end of the first half of 2011 must be culminated the settlement of companies.

After the final impetus to the first phase, the forecasts of the Junta of Extremadura through that the rest of the action will proceed according to the perspective of demand. The budget of material performance estimated for the development of Expaciomérida is 72.3 million euros.

Complementary services include a building of multiple uses, with a unique design, which will provide offices, showrooms and congresses called EMAG (multifunctional building of support and management).

The initiative was launched in February 2006, when the extraordinary Council of the Junta de Extremadura commissioned to the society of Industrial development of Extremadura (Sofiex) promotion, management and construction of two industrial parks in strategic locations in the region. After finding two more appropriate locations, Mérida and Navalmoral de la Mata, were born two specific corporations, which launched the urban management of the chosen grounds in April 2007. In August 2008 was definitely adopted the planning of Expaciomérida under the figure of a project of Regional interest and opened the recruitment process of the work of urbanization, which today are already a reality.