On 21 October the Eix Besòs Business Association celebrated its 25th anniversary. The event took place at the emblematic Casas Baratas museum in Bon Pastor, the neighbourhood that saw the association’s birth and where many of the people who work in the companies of the business estates it represents still live.
UPIC wanted to support the Board and its members in this celebration of one of UPIC’s founding members. In her opening speech, the association’s President, Montse Ferrer, described its growth and its good relationship with the administrations, which does not mean giving up being demanding in order to improve the estates.
Pedro Murga, Director of the Federation, called for improving the estates and fitting them well with the rest of the territory’s realities, highlighting mobility, safety and talent among other issues, and stressed the importance of associationism in achieving this.
The Mayor of Sant Adrià de Besòs, Filo Cañete, and the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, also spoke, discussing the creation of a new centrality and a new strategy for industrial estates. Collboni linked the existence of industrial estates to the challenge of making the right to stay, live and work in Barcelona a reality. Maintaining industrial activity is essential.
From the Union of Industrial Estates of Catalonia we want to congratulate the Lower Besòs Business Association and wish them a bright future that radiates to the rest of Catalonia’s industrial estates.
Montse Ferrer, President of the Lower Besòs Business Association