Barcelona presented this Friday a new calendar for the transformation of La Model. Nine years after the last inmates left the Eixample prison, the City Council has announced that it has just put out to tender the contract for the construction of the first facilities in the complex, with the aim that the works can begin in November of this year. To complete the remodeling, however, it will still be necessary to wait at least two terms. The horizon set by the municipal government foresees that the project will not be completely finished until 2035.

With an initial investment of 6.7 million euros in 2026, Barcelona City Council will launch a plan that seeks to reclaim "the city's democratic, social, and feminist tradition." To this end, it has presented a roadmap that will be rolled out until 2030 and which, among other things, foresees the creation of the Model Memorial Center, where the political repression, social conflict, penal control, and democratic struggles of the 20th century will be explained. It is, therefore, a new Center for the Interpretation of Terrorism, which will primarily focus on the Hipercor (1987) and La Rambla (2017) attacks, at the "Montjuïc Castle; and the Center for the Interpretation of Labor in Barcelona, in the old Fabra i Coats factory.