Barcelona City Council is studying a proposal from FC Barcelona for the Camp Nou works to last from Monday to Friday from 8 in the morning until 12 at night. As a condition, the four extra hours that may be granted would be limited to tasks that are silent and without machinery to avoid the nocturnal noise that is already noticeable during the day. The City Council has transferred this proposal to several neighborhood associations in the Les Corts district.
To date, any suggestion to extend the work had met with opposition from neighbors. However, there is also a desire for them to be finished in time so that the environment can once again regain its calm and local tranquility. “We are doing everything we can to avoid inconvenience,” say sources from the Barcelona club.
Currently, the Camp Nou works last from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with some work on weekends, specifically on Saturdays, which run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. under controlled acoustic and lighting regime. At the moment, there are already eight Saturdays that have become workdays. The last one was on Saturday, March 23, just before Holy Week. The club is negotiating month by month to expand the weekend calendar. This time, as Betevé advanced, it has committed to closing the quarry of the missing Miniestadi to avoid inconvenience to residents and businesses with the bustle of trucks transporting stones and raising dust.
There are currently 1,400 workers from the Turkish construction company Limak on the large esplanade of the Barça fiefdom. In recent weeks, construction of the pillars and partitions inside the first and second stands has begun. In principle and as established in the contract with Limak, the forecast is that both the first and second stands must be ready in November 2024, coinciding with the club's 125th anniversary, to open with 60 percent capacity and that The third tier will be completed at the end of 2025. By then, the roof and the last finishes will remain to be finished. It is predicted that the new Camp Nou will be completely ready for the 2026-2027 season.
“Every day outside the Camp Nou penalizes us. We lose income. "You have to be in Montjuïc as long as you need," the club insists, recalling that, at this point in the year, it is 30 million below what was expected and is, in part, due to the drop in ticketing for matches at the Lluís Companys. They also remember that the contract with Limak contains a clause in which the Turkish company undertakes to pay one million euros for each day that the completion of the first part of the works is delayed.
In terms of design, several changes have been detected between the initial Nikken Sekkei project approved by Bartomeu's board in 2016 and the one that Laporta's board is finally executing. The new model shows how the 360º video scoreboard will be replaced by three large scoreboards. The cover, built with tighter wiring, has also changed, acquiring a blue appearance.
The third tier was completely demolished to build a new one and house the ring of boxes between it and the second. The objective is to deposit 76.5 million euros in VIP concepts that will make the pharaonic work profitable and return with interest the 1,450 million euros of the agreed financing operation. The Camp Nou is intended to be a meeting point for the best companies in the sector, especially taking into account that Catalonia has 29,000 medium and large companies, a figure that places the Catalan community as the fourth European region with the largest base of companies.
Following the American model that has so inspired the new project, when Limak finishes the Spotify Camp Nou in 2027, Barça, behind A
