Alcampo sale de Sant Adrià y cierra Dreamfit para impulsar gran redevelopamiento

Sant Adrià de Besòs is about to lose one of its most practical fitness anchors. Dreamfit’s gym in the Alcampo complex is scheduled to close on June 30, ending roughly 10 years of operation and leaving around 3,000 users to look elsewhere just as the site is being pulled into a much larger real-estate shuffle.

The closure is tied to a redevelopment covering nearly 90,000 square meters in Sant Joan Baptista and Parc de Lluís Companys. The approved urban plan keeps the same total buildable area, but redistributes it to make room for an Inditex corporate campus, a relocated Alcampo store and new commercial space. The new Alcampo is projected to include about 600 parking spaces, while the plan also preserves the Celo chimney, one of the most recognizable industrial remnants in the area.

The project is part of the broader transformation of the Barcelona metropolitan waterfront and the Tres Xemeneies zone. Inditex, Alcampo and Ceetrus Urban Player are behind the operation, and the companies have agreed to pay Sant Adrià de Besòs about nine million euros for two new bridges that will connect the area to the future Catalunya Media City hub. In other words, the land is not just being reused; it is being re-engineered around offices, retail and new access routes.

Dreamfit says it tried to stay in Sant Adrià or nearby, but could not find a viable replacement location. The chain says the center’s closure affects about 3,000 users and that members and employees have already been notified. Rafael Cecilio, Dreamfit’s president, has said the company still wants to return to the Besòs area if a suitable site appears. The gym will remain open through the end of June and then spend July dismantling the installation.

The Sant Adrià city council has said many tenants in the Alcampo complex were not informed early enough about the timeline and has been trying to help relocate affected businesses and workers. Some tenants are being moved into alternative spaces, while others have already decided not to continue after the eviction. For the neighborhood, the loss is not abstract: this is the kind of nearby, affordable gym that people use before work, after school runs and between shifts. Once it is gone, the nearest workout option is no longer just across the street, and that is exactly what gets erased when redevelopment wins the argument over community infrastructure.