L'Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council plans to invest just over €20 million to create greener routes and improve mobility in the city's Economic District, according to reporting by El Periódico Barcelona. For workers, businesses and commuters in the area around Granvia, Fira and the main office and hotel zone, the plan is intended to change how people move through one of Catalonia's biggest employment centres while adding more green public space.

The project sits within a wider push by the municipality to expand its business and biomedical activity south of Granvia. The Economic District has grown from 66,000 jobs in 2001 to 115,000 in 2025, according to the source report, underlining why access, traffic flow and public space in this part of L'Hospitalet matter to residents and daily commuters as well as employers.

Economic District targeted for mobility and green upgrades

L'Hospitalet is the second most populous city in Catalonia, as noted by El Mundo. It is also described as the second largest municipal contributor to Catalonia's gross domestic product, accounting for 3%, a figure cited in the source material and consistent with broader regional economic data published by Idescat, Catalonia's official statistics institute, and Spain's National Statistics Institute.

The city government's latest investment is focused on adapting the Economic District, where offices, hotels, trade fair activity and large employers are concentrated. The area has become one of the main engines of L'Hospitalet's economy, particularly around Fira Gran Via and the southern Granvia corridor.

  • Planned investment: just over €20 million
  • Area affected: L'Hospitalet's Economic District
  • Main aims: greener axes and improved mobility
  • Employment growth cited: from 66,000 jobs in 2001 to 115,000 in 2025

For local readers, the practical consequence is that future street works and redesigns are likely to be concentrated in the business district used daily by office staff, hotel guests, exhibition visitors and residents crossing the area. The reporting available so far does not specify a public consultation timetable or detailed phasing for individual streets.

Part of a wider Granvia and Biopol transformation

The €20 million plan comes alongside larger projects already announced in southern L'Hospitalet. In June 2025, El Periódico reported that the Generalitat, the Catalan government, and L'Hospitalet had approved a €144 million project to bury the final stretch of Granvia by 2030. The urban planning framework for Biopol-Granvia has also been approved, according to L'Hdigital, the local public media outlet.

Other published plans linked to the same southern growth area include a proposed 28-hectare metropolitan park, reported by CatalunyaPress, and a broader biomedical district that Metrópoli Abierta said could eventually include 500,000 square metres of green areas and 50,000 jobs. Those figures relate to the wider long-term redevelopment zone, not specifically to the €20 million Economic District mobility package.

"Seremos el centro del mundo de la salud y del bienestar," Mayor David Quirós said in an interview published by El Periódico, referring to L'Hospitalet's planned biomedical hub. In British English, this means: "We will be the world's centre for health and wellbeing."

The same zone is also seeing hotel growth around the trade fair complex. El Periódico reported on 7 July 2026 that 10 new projects are driving L'Hospitalet's hotel cluster near Fira Gran Via, adding to pressure on roads, pavements and public transport links in the district.

What residents and businesses can do next

The city has not yet published, in the source material provided, a detailed street-by-street timetable, map of interventions or a formal participation calendar for the €20 million scheme. Residents, workers and firms in the Granvia and Fira area who need updates should monitor the official channels of the Ajuntament de L'Hospitalet, the city council, for future announcements on works, traffic changes and any consultation process.

For now, the confirmed points are the scale of the investment, its focus on greener axes and mobility, and the fact that it targets an Economic District where recorded employment has risen to 115,000 in 2025.

Primary sources: idescat.cat. Reported by Source Text Link, Àlex Rebollo / Manuel Arenas, Rubén Pacheco, CatalunyaPress.cat, Jordi Oliveres, Àlex Rebollo, lhdigital.cat, Vilapress, National Statistics Institute, elmundo.es, lavanguardia.com, Dulce Valero, Clara Fernández, El Periódico Barcelona.