Also on board was la Caixa, now known as CaixaBank. So was the owner of the major investment company, Veremonte, Enrique Bañuelos, and local mayors. The Catalan government president at the time, Artur Mas was in favor of the project. An estimated €4,800 million was required to build and staff the resort to begin with, but the project was also projected to create 20,000 job ropes, plus another 20,000 indirect job opportunities. In order to be feasible, both from an economic and legal point of view, it was proposed that each of the six sites would have its own unique hotel and casino. According to the proposal at the time, the complex of buildings would consist of six separate sites across 445 hectares. Catalonia’s government shared the project, which would be constructed between Salou and Vila-seca, close to Spain’s Balearic sea coastline just south-west of Barcelona. The original presentation of the Hard Rock Barcelona World concept happened in 2012. Lucrezia Carnelos/Unsplash What happened with the resort project since 2012? In Barcelona, a proposal for a mega casino-resort complex by Hard Rock has stalled for ten years, but might still come to pass.
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