A municipal plan that will attempt to emulate Paral.lel Broadway.

Plan to transform a big city street
The Windmill Theater creates a foundation to revitalize the avenue

JORDI SUBIRANA / BARCELONA

Avenida del Paral.l.el live in the coming years a renewal to become a boulevard similar to New York Broadway. The project, announced yesterday that the council was founded with the creation of a foundation-driven drama El Molino Avenue to energize this deteriorating located halfway between the districts of Eixample, Sants and City Vella.La processing Paral.lel will take place the next municipal mandate, between 2011 and 2015, said the councilor of the district of Sants-Montjuïc, Imma Moraleda. The plan is at a very early stage - and which will define in the coming years - although the intention is to recover the shaft and turn it into a ride that the Plaça d'Espanya to the Rambla de Mar, close to the World Trade Center.

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For the founding of The Mill, which was filed yesterday in partnership with the presence of the former president of the Generalitat, Pasqual Maragall, the urban plan is a priority in order to create a Paral.lel Barcelonan Broadway - the street is more theaters - and relaunch as a major artery recreational, commercial and cultural.

The foundation, which is financed with private capital and which has among its patrons with the singer Miguel Bosé and exten Emilio Sanchez Vicario, is launching a "special plan" as the architect and member of the collective Josep Bohigas, to lift street "low hours" to live. Bohigas raised the possibility of "changing the plan Paral.lel use", or what is the same regular shops put into operation, although the council avoided pronouncing on the matter. "I think twice before deciding," Moraleda said.
Among the proposals that the deck foundation that it intends to work with neighborhood associations and businesses and governments are promoting new business, renew the facilities, promote social integration and launch activities in the exhibition as an avenue youth tennis, a dance project that would boost the dancer Sol Picó and magnitude of an event that will close the street.

El Periodico 21/01/2009