Green light for the old headquarters of Social Security in Manacor to be the new youth center
The building has more than 400 meters and is divided into three floors
PalmThe Manacor City Council has approved by full council to make the definitive request to the Ministry of Social Security, so that the state cedes the property located at number 9 Nou Street, very close to the center.
An administrative procedure before the space can become the city's new youth center. In fact, the Manacor council has already even agreed on the years of cession in exchange for a rehabilitation to leave the house in a usable condition, after decades closed without any use.
The Social Security building has 427 square meters built and divided into three floors. “The aim is for it to become a stable public building,” explains the mayor Miquel Oliver “with rehearsal rooms, other multipurpose rooms for workshops or educational leisure, audiovisual rooms” or spaces for the different youth organizations in the municipality, among which is Xítxeros amb Empenta, which already in September 2024 visited the space together with some councilors of the government team.
The cession by the state would be for a period of 30 years, with the possibility of a subsequent extension if both parties agree. What is not contemplated is the direct purchase of the building, as it is within the Social Security catalog and therefore, according to its regulations, it could not be disposed of.
Once the Ministry returns a positive response, the City Council would begin a period of comprehensive renovation of the space, which although it has been abandoned for so many years, does not present structural problems. However, the council will have to allocate a significant budget: “we have calculated that it would cost the rent of another similar building all these years and it pays off,” added Oliver. Among other things, tasks of insulation of certain rooms or the installation of an elevator or fire prevention measures will have to be carried out.
Councilwoman Júlia Acosta has thanked the young people “for all the waiting time” without having a youth center (the last one was Espai Na Camella and it did not work as expected), “it is an important step of justice”.
It is also known that during morning hours the new center will have a more institutional function, as the headquarters of the municipal Youth service and with space revitalization tasks. Whereas in the afternoons it would be managed in a self-managed way by the different groups that wish to take an active part.
