The facilities of old market of San José They will have a new life. After the forced closure of this food gallery, carried out in July 2021, the owners of the two floors of the building, which also has judicial offices on the other two upper floors, took The property is for sale for a price of 1.7 million euros. And now, the international firm Fitness Park announces on its website the upcoming opening of a gym in this building located in the San José neighborhood, between Trille Street, María Auxiliadora Avenue and the Balbo area.
The shopping gallery has a total of 2,400 square meters distributed between its two floors. The square’s retailers also owned approximately two-thirds of the basement of the building: the other third is property of the Junta de Andalucía, which after the closure of the square undertook some emergency works that even forced the judicial offices to be closed and temporarily moved.
Fitness Park, which has nearly one and a half million users spread across several countries around the world, usually builds spacious gyms, around 1,800 square meterswhich fits perfectly in this building. On its website, the French multinational firm announces its project to install a gym at 9 Trille Street, an address that coincides with one of the two entrances to the San José gallery.
The company does not give an opening date, although it does open a registration process on its website for people interested in being part of the club, and who in this way can receive information about the opening date and “special launch promotions.” It seems logical that, once the opening is announced, the gym will be operational this year, perhaps in the summer, once the adaptation works on the current facilities, practically abandoned since the shopping gallery was closed four and a half years ago, are completed.
Fitness Park, whose gyms generally open from six in the morning to one in the morning, has facilities in the province of Cádiz in Chiclana, Sanlúcar and Jerez. In addition to Cádiz capital, it announces upcoming gym openings on its website in Puerto de Santa María and Puerto Real. To date, the international firm has a total of 19 gyms in Andalusia, a number that will grow considerably with the future projects announced both in Cádiz and in other provinces of the Andalusian autonomous community.
This commercial gallery in San José, of 2,400 square meters spread over two floors, was private and It originally had 64 positions. Its owners, some owners of several premises, were organized in a community that has put the facility up for sale with a unit price, of which each one will receive a percentage depending on the square meters of their property.
About the future of this market, which In its early days it replaced an old square located next to the parish of San José (with entrance also on Avenida de Portugal)the threat of closure always weighed due to the health and structural deficiencies of the complex. The community of owners, after rejecting other projects on the building, carried out some works many years ago, especially to prevent water leaks into the basement of the building or to improve the ceilings and the health of its facilities, but they rarely gave the expected result.
In fact, The merchants were closing stalls in the square until the municipal closure order arrived.which forced retailers to seek accommodation in other markets, both the Central de Abastos and the Virgen del Rosario de Varela, or to move their businesses to commercial premises located as far as possible in the closest surroundings of the closed market.
Even in January 2011, a municipal project which aimed to provide the San José market with a new modern building, with housing on the upper floors, the construction of an underground parking lot and, incidentally, the improvement of the Los Balbo area by expanding its pedestrian and leisure area with a new small square.
