Valencia City Council has approved the building permit for the Nou Mestalla stadium and work can resume immediately on the stalled 50,000-seater venue.
Valencia CF said the decision represents the first milestone for construction work on the future Valencian stadium to resume.
Nou Mestalla is a partially built football stadium in Valencia, Spain, intended as a replacement for Valencia CF’s current Mestalla Stadium.
The basic concrete structure of the stadium was built between August 2007 and February 2009, but work was then halted for financial reasons.
New plans to get stadium construction back on track were revealed in 2022, with the aim of building a 59,000-seat venue which would be expandable to 70,000.
In June this year the club announced the sale of the land attached to the Nou Mestalla to a subsidiary of Grupo Atitlán in a €30 million deal. The money will be spent on the new stadium.
Plans call for two skyscrapers to be built on the 40,000 square meters of land that would house a hotel, offices and commercial premises. These would provide more pedestrian traffic to the sports venue and boost the plans of having the complex open for 365 days a year.
Under the terms of the permit approval, the project must be completed within 30 months from its resumption, which is required to be by January 2025.
To this end, Valencia CF is working with both the construction company and the architectural firm to restart the works on the Nou Mestalla within a maximum period of six months.
Valencia CF said in a statement, “Obtaining the Building License is confirmation of the commitment shown and the work carried out by the Club over recent years so that the team and the Valencia fans can move to our new stadium.
“Valencia CF is convinced that the Nou Mestalla will become a symbol of pride and modernity for the city, a benchmark in sports, and a space that is an example of the Valencian spirit.
“This is a fundamental step in the path undertaken by Valencia CF with the aim of turning the Nou Mestalla into a reality for all Valencian fans.”
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