The Bloc4BCN has taken another step towards becoming a reality with the completion of the rehabilitation and adaptation works of the building. The space, of 4,500 square metres, aims to transform into the Centre for the promotion of Cooperativism and the Social and Solidarity Economy of Barcelona. The new public, cooperative and community project will come into operation during the first quarter of this year 2024. 

The space will host more than 60 transformative business projects and is part of the municipal goal of the Social and Solidarity Economy Strategy in Barcelona 2030. Technological and digital initiatives, attention and care of people, energy, housing, mobility, culture, tourism and sustainable textiles, local retail and sustainable food and agroecology will coexist together. 

Different Barcelona Activa services will also be developed in the building, such as a support space for the social economy and cooperatives to complement the needs of other Bloc4BCN resources. In addition, there will be the new proximity satellite facility of Sants-Montjuïc Activa, with spaces intended for labour insertion and guidance and the defence of labour rights.   

The works began in the summer of 2021 and the Barcelona City Council has invested 10.3 million euros to rehabilitate the old industrial warehouse, which it has loaned to the Associació Bloc4. An entity with the participation of the Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia, the Federation of Labour Cooperatives of Catalonia and the Coòpolis Association.