The old Metropolitan cinemas in Pere Garau will be converted into a nine-story multi-service center with an investment of 14.5 million euros. Construction will begin in the third quarter of 2027.

The Pere Garau square in Palma will host the 1st Second Life Fair next Sunday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, an event open to the public whose main objective is to contribute to raising people's awareness about the need to extend the life of objects.

The Palma City Council will provisionally suspend the sales activity of the alleged perpetrator of the homophobic aggression against a seller at the Pere Garau market. The measure has been adopted after the Markets area prepared a report based on the Local Police report, and comes in a context of strong indignation in the neighborhood due to events that have generated an immediate social response.

The former Metropolitan cinemas from the Palma neighborhood of Pere Garau They will be transformed into a nine-story multi-service center housing a local police station, a daycare center, a library, a primary healthcare unit, and parking spaces. The winning design in the ideas competition was the preliminary architectural project submitted by Joan Fortuny and Martí Sanz, as announced by the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, at the press conference following the Governing Board meeting held this Wednesday. The building will combine concrete with wood and features flexible spaces adaptable to the multitude of uses planned for the building. It will have three underground levels, which will be used for parking and storage, and six above ground – including the roof – where the various municipal services will be located.

The facade of the former Metropolitan cinemas in Palma was vandalized with graffiti this Tuesday morning, and the Flipau con Pere Garau association has warned that this attack on the city's historical heritage is yet another example of the widespread degradation of the area. In a statement, the group lamented that the Pere Garau neighborhood has once again been affected by the appearance of new graffiti, adding to the existing problems of broken sidewalks, vacant lots and buildings abandoned for decades, dirt, litter, and other issues that negatively impact the quality of life for residents. "This kind of damage, when it persists over time, alters the perception of public spaces and leads to a feeling of insecurity and degradation that discourages civic responsibility," they warned.

An elderly man was seriously injured this Saturday after being run over in Palma's Pere Garau square.

The family of Pedro Fullana, an elderly man with Alzheimer's, has asked for help to find him. He disappeared this Thursday afternoon in the Pere Garau area. His relatives have shared a post on social media in which they provide a telephone number (686 967 817) for anyone who can provide any clues as to his location, as they fear he may not know how to get back home.

Watermelon remains, furniture, clothing, cardboard boxes, and all kinds of waste frequently pile up outside overflowing containers in several Palma neighborhoods. The situation creates an image of urban neglect and has become one of the main complaints from residents, along with noise. "You go for a walk and find a whole heap of trash devouring the containers," laments a resident of the Paseo Marítim.

This weekend, the Pere Garau neighborhood will host the first Variado Fair, one of the star dishes of Mallorcan cuisine. The initiative was created with the aim of promoting one of the island's most popular dishes, now established as an emblem of traditional Mallorcan cuisine and local produce.

Cort will include a Local Police station in the nearly 7,000-square-meter multi-service center that will be built in the former Metropolitan cinema in Pere Garau, Palma's most populated neighborhood. In response to this announcement, some local residents felt that a 24-hour health center is more necessary than a police station. "I think it's great that there is a police station, but health comes first, and we will continue to fight for this facility. It's absurd that Palma's most populated neighborhood doesn't have one," remarked Genoveva Martín, a member of the Flipau con Pere Garau neighborhood platform.

Residents of the Pere Garau neighborhood (Palma) have reported that a group of young people have broken the barriers in the Plaza Jorge Lluís Borges to access the bottle service and consume alcoholic beverages. They lament that this is not the first time such an incident has occurred, and almost every night there are crowds of young people who bottle shop without any kind of control.