The project to regenerate the seabed of the Olympic Port Barcelona is moving in the right direction. This was stated this Tuesday at a press conference by Mayor Jaume Collboni, who reviewed the first year of the implementation of the fifty artificial reefs that were submerged in this area in the spring of 2024. "In just one year, these structures have become a refuge and breeding ground for more than a hundred," the mayor stated. This image contrasts with the seabed in this area forty years ago, when constant industrial waste had turned it into lifeless mud.

The disappearance of the Opium nightclub on Barcelona's seafront will not be as quick as announced this July, when the City Council presented an agreement sealed with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to make it possible for the premises to be used to expand the facilities of the Mediterranean Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CMIMA) in the city. Although the plan was to immediately hand over the provisional use of the space while the project and the tender for the works progressed, they will now not be able to start before September next year. The State government, which is the owner of these premises on the seafront, has extended Opium's lease for another year, as confirmed by the owners of the nightclub, who had already announced that they planned to challenge the agreement in court. They considered that the decision was "unilateral" and "purely ideological" to "punish" nightlife venues in the area. They now know the business will be allowed to continue at least for another year.