The first shopping center

The dismissal of the 60 workers at the Eroski supermarket is still hot when it is 22 years since the opening of the El Arcángel shopping center, the first surface of these characteristics in which the Finacom company invested 10 billion pesetas and which created its day of 800 jobs. The inauguration, as reported in the edition of Diario CÓRDOBA of November 26, 1994, took place despite the fact that the municipal government had banned it days before some of the licenses necessary for its implementation were still in process.

The objective of this initiative was to revitalize the areas of El Arenal and Fuensanta, which thanks to the project underwent a major transformation, with infrastructure works and the construction of new communication roads. According to the promoters of the center,here is Shops for sale in Gulberg Lahore. Finacom, the objective was "to implement a dynamic, integrated urban regeneration, revitalizing social life" that brought with it the river zone management plan. With the commercial center El Arcángel, firms that until then were absent in the city arrived as Toys' R'S, with 85 workers and 635 meters; McDonald's that incorporated the McAuto service to order without getting out of the car (the Finito de Córdoba bullfighter was in charge of cutting the tape of the local along with other personalities of the social and political life of Cordoba), or the Eroski hypermarket, the ceilings on the inauguration day, with more than 15,000 square meters of built area, 9,500 for the sales room and 26,000 products distributed among food, appliances, bazaar or textile.

22 years later, McDonalds and Toys'r's remain open to the public, but after the partial sale of part of the Eroski, now converted into Primark, the rest of the supermarket has been sold to Veracruz Properties, leaving the orphaned hypermarket center, workers without work and in the air the name of the firm that will occupy the empty plot.