The new municipal ordinance prepared by Córdoba City Hall to limit licenses for housing for tourist use (VUT) in the Historic Center, Center and South district from 2026 will undoubtedly have a calling effect for the projects planned in these areas and awaiting execution. In fact, three companies in the sector have taken the first steps to build more than three dozen new tourist apartments in areas where in two years it will be impossible to obtain a license for this use.
Amistad Hotels SAGlobaltecnia SL and Project Gran Roma are the companies that have requested the perceptive environmental qualification from the licensing department of the Municipal Urban Planning Management (GMU) of the Cordoba City Hall to launch several projects that will allow the construction of a little more of 30 tourist apartments. in the central axis of the city.
The most innovative project is the one being prepared by Hoteles Amistad SA, owner of the NH Amistad hotel in Maimónides Square. The owners of the hotel complex are immersed in a double process. On the one hand, work has already begun to completely renovate the four-star hotel to make it a five-star hotel, one of the few in the city. These works will cost just over five million euros, to have 89 completely new luxury rooms and a completion period which should end in October 2025, after a year of work, as ABC has already reported a few weeks ago. It will also host a new restaurant for an excellent dining experience.
At the same time, the novelty is that Amistad Hotels SA She is also encouraging the conversion of the headquarters across the street from this hotel into a new tourist apartment complex. In addition to serving a clientele with high purchasing power in the future five-star hotel, the owners also aim to manage accommodation with lower purchasing power and more familiar ones in the same Plaza Maimónides, next to the Bullfighting Museum. There are no major details yet on the Amistad owners’ project, except for the start of planning procedures to obtain permission to transform this headquarters into an apartment complex for tourist use before the authorizations become impossible for this purpose in the historic center of. Cordoba in 2026.
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Others join the Amistad Hotels project 24 tourist apartments promoted by two other companies in the Center, with 15 new residences for tourist use, and Ciudad Jardín, with nine additional SUTs.
Globaltecnia is the company responsible for promoting the construction of 15 new tourist apartments planned in the Center. In this case, the company has already decided on the location. It will be a building located at number 3 Sevilla Street. The promoter presented the project to the GMU to obtain the mandatory environmental qualification before moving on to the next steps.
In addition, Gran Roma SL Project is responsible for mobilizing the project which supports the commissioning of nine other apartments tourist in the district of Garden city. In this case, the project is planned at number 8 Virrey Caballero Góngora street. This is one of the first routes in Ciudad Jardín, as it allows direct access to the Argentine Republic, on the one hand, and to the Rectorate of the University of. Cordoba and the gardens of Juan Carlos I, at the other end.
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The appeal was not long in coming after the announcement by the Town Hall to limit licenses in 2026 in Casco, Centro and Sur
The decision of the Córdoba City Council to resort to the recent regulations of the Junta de Andalucía which allow Andalusian municipalities to limit the use of tourist accommodation in saturated areas of the cities which make it difficult for their growth to be compatible with coexistence with residents was greatly applauded by the inhabitants of Historic Center, Campo de la Verdad and Mirafloresas ABC was able to test it last week after the announcement of the mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido, that he would protect the Casco, the Center and the South of the city from VUT in 2026.
However, some hoteliers or traders They showed their reluctance in the face of a decision which had an effect on the calls for projects which were in the drawer, as evidenced by these three reactivated since Friday.
