The Bilbao City Hall tender to sell a plot on Zorrotzaurre to build fixed-price housing as part of the neighbourhood rehabilitation project, has attracted seven bids. It is the first housing operation City Hall has launched in this area.

The Contract Award Board has finished demolition work on the facilitiesVicinayCadenas had on Zorrotzaurreand which had begun at the beginning of September. This thus concludes the last great demolition operation to be performed in phase one of the Zorrotzaurreproject. The demolition has been carried out on the VicinayCadenas installations except for the two office buildings forming part of the 19 conserved under the Special Plan to be devoted to new purposes: The former Banco de Bilbao archive and the old La Coromina paint factory. The first is earmarked to be the future headquarters of Tknika, the Research and Applied Innovation…

Today at 13:30, Deusto canal was opened, converting what had hitherto been a peninsula into an island. The canal opening ceremony was chaired by the Mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, who was accompanied by the Head of the Regional Government Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing, Iñaki Arriola, amongst other eminent figures.