Step forward so that the Teatre Capítol is a municipal facility

The Commission for Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility, and Housing has initially approved the Modification of the Metropolitan General Plan for the transformation of the grounds of the Capitol Theater into a public facility

The future facility will maintain the two theaters for theatrical use and the building will also house the Central Services Offices of the Barcelona Libraries Consortium. This operation reinforces La Rambla as the city's cultural hub 

The Commission for Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility, and Housing has initially approved the Modification of the Metropolitan General Plan for the transformation of the grounds of the Capitol Theater into a public facility and of the Telefonica building at number 2 Fontanella street for tertiary uses. This urban operation will allow the Capitol Theater to retain its theatrical use, now as a municipal facility, and that the building where it is located can host offices of the Libraries Consortium.

The property at 7 and 9 Santa Anna street, where the Capitol Theater is located, will modify its current urban classification, currently as an area, to have a public facility qualification as a whole, and have both the theatrical use of recent years and the ability to host municipal offices of the Central Services of the Barcelona Libraries Consortium.

In order for this to be possible, the Barcelona City Council has reached an agreement with the owner of the Capitol Theater building to change the qualification of the building at number 2 Fontanella street, also owned by them and currently with a facility urban classification.

This urban change will generate a surplus obtained from the difference in locations that will materialize in the transfer in favor of the Barcelona City Council of the building where the Capitol Theater is located, and an economic differential that will be used to carry out a large part of the theater's rehabilitation works and the adaptation of the Libraries Consortium offices. These works will be fully managed by the current owner of the building as a promoter, prior agreement with the Barcelona City Council, which will be responsible for both the project design and the monitoring of the reform execution, as is done with all projects promoted by the council.
 
An initiative that reinforces La Rambla as the city's cultural hub

In the new stage of the Capitol Theater under municipal ownership, the facility will maintain the two theaters, one with 402 seats, and a second with 198, in an initiative that reinforces La Rambla as the city's cultural hub. In this way, the city will be provided with two new scenic spaces in the center. The theater's management will be decided by competition, as was done in the case of the Paral·lel 62 theater.

The building will combine its theater space activity with administrative functions, as the space will also house the Central Services Offices of the city's Libraries Consortium, which will occupy the last two floors.