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At the beginning of 2019 this space sees how the adjoining buildings are demolished. At the end of the same year the building disappears and Haceria Arteak association moves to its new facilities in Zorrotzaurre.

2017:

At the end of 2019, due to the progress of the urban plan, the building disappears, so the organization moves that summer.
 

EIDABE web

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At the end of 2019, and due to the development of the urban plan, the building that houses Haceria disappears.

2017:

Since 2011, it hosts the project Pabellón Número 6, promoted by 13 multifaceted creators from the world of Performing Arts, Dance and Theater, to favor the generation of synergies.

The project has a young company, its own productions and a short theater festival among others.

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In 2017, and after being closed for a few months, the space is opened as ZAWP DENDA, a small neighborhood grocery that combines the service of selling basic food and hygiene products with the information point of ZAWP and the projects that conform it. It also serves as a place for temporary exhibition and sale of artistic and creative products of different initiatives.

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Espacio Open website

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It is established in 2006 in a disused space making a transformation of the space through which a covered skatepark is created for the promotion of skateboarding.

Guretxoko web

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After the closure of Kukutza, groups until then located there get in touch with ZAWP in search of support to find a suitable space. This is how Karola Zirko Espazio was born in Zorrotzaurre, a circus and street theater space where companies can develop all their areas, and that has the aim of helpin the artistic dissemination of the circus and performing arts in Bilbao.

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For years, different initiatives begin their journey in this building that was formerly part of the Serrería Fernández. ZAWPers share this workspace for the development of their creative projects until 2019.

2017:

Since 2011 it hosts creators sharing space. ZAWPLab is conceived not only as a workplace, but also as a place to live where artists and creators in residence coexist with entrepreneur who initiate their projects.
This space sees numerous initiatives born and grow until 2019, when with the advance of the Urban Plan and the transfer of Haceria Arteak Association to its new facilities, it is again empty for a new use.

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Since its recovery as a multidisciplinary space in 2011, Garabia hosts diverse activities from numerous creators and artists. During this period, Garabia is a place to promote and increase the possibility of exhibiting cultural actions, which, in addition to welcoming the audience, serves as a space for artists to create during their residency at ZAWP.

In the end of 2019, and with the progress of the urban plan and the transfer of Haceria Arteak Association, Garabia becomes part of Pabellón 6.

 
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ASD Gaz, an Italian collective, decided to find a place to turn into a space for climbing in Bilbao after a decade of managing a similar project in Florence.
Interested in La Ribera, they contacted ZAWP, who collaborated in the search for disused spaces. Finally, the group takes over a space of about 2,000 square meters located in the phase 2 of the Urban Plan, shaping Piugaz Bilbao. Since then Piugaz becomes a reference for climbing enthusiasts and proffesionals.

Piugaz web

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Before being a bar it was occupied by some other companies such as Electricidad Uria.

For more than 10 years Ribera Bar was managed by Vanesa and Jon Ander, who helped her during the afternoon. In the pictures we can see the bar before and after the rehabilitation as well as Raquel, “The Grandmother” during her goodbye for the retirement from her position as a cook at “El Ribera”.

Nowadays Olga and “El rubio” run the bar.

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The building disappeared in 2005 although a panel of tiles from 1912 was preserved from its old façade.

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Publications of interest related to Lonas y Toldos Bilbao Goyoaga (spanish):

• Más de 170 años a toda vela. El Correo. 19/09/2007

In 2012 as result of the work in collaboration with the Basque Industrial Heritage Association, the building was classified as public equipment within the Zorrozaurre Special Plan. In 2018 it was published that it would serve as the headquarters of Kunsthal Design Center.


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Publications of interest related to Papelera (spanish):

• Web Papelera Nervión.
• Energía de futuro para una vieja nave de Zorrotzaurre
• Modificación del Plan Urbanístico.
• “La papelera de zorrozaurre” (El Correo 09.02.2015)
• “Papelera: La limpieza del solar…” (DEIA 20.05.2014)
• “Una fábrica de sabores en Zorrotzaurre” (EL CORREO 21/05/2012)

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Publication related to Pedro Murelaga, owner of Pilpilka Shipyards (spanish):

• Dantzan. Acerca del tipo de baile que practicaba Peio Murelaga durante más de treinta años.

Since 2012 the building has hosted several cultural projects.

The urban plan of Zorrozaurre contemplates the conservation of part of this industrial building.

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Publications of interest related to Artiach (Spanish):

• Álbum de fotos de Canduela
• Fernando Artiach Tritremmel “Un caso insólito”
• Las galleteras de la ribera de Deustua fueron “muy populares, porque éramos muy combativas”. Gara (30/04/2007)
• Miren Llona González entrevista a Pepita Ormaetxe (21/05/2003)
• Las galleteras de Deusto. Mujer y trabajo en el Bilbao Industrial. Pripublikarrak (2007)

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Beta was, years ago, a bolt factory. It used to have an amazing garden in the roof.

For the new urban plan, the Beta building will save its life, because of its architectonic value, and will be entirely redesigned. In that new building will be located the Centro Vasco de Matemáticas Aplicadas.

• El centro vasco de Matemáticas tendrá su sede definitiva en Zorrozaurre (12/04/11)
• Fuera de la fábrica Beta
• En marcha la reforma de uno de los edificios industriales emblemáticos

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Its Administrative Director, Javier Elorriaga, tells in the interview that since his arrival to the neighborhood in 1975, the reality of La Ribera has completely changed; decades ago, more than 2500-3000 workers went through the neighborhood and bars and restaurants served all of them, trucks and buses roamed the streets… Little by little the big companies disappeared, and small workshops arised. As time went by these also closed their doors leaving a totally different picture.
Javier also talks about the feeling of uncertainty caused by the Urban Plan.

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News appeared in the TV news media of the Basque Country about a fire occured in Conssoni’s facilities:

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Some of the parts produced by the company today (Formula 1 engine liners and parts for doors, gearshifts, safety arches or soundproofing elements) have been homogenized in such a way that the profit margin is lower if they are manufactured in the Basque country. As a result of this the company started to open production plants in Morocco.

At the beginning of 2008 Cromoduro settled in the port of Tanger, preceded by Renault. The Corporation also set up a plant in Fez, where it manufactures chromed shirts in collaboration with a local partner. At the same time, Cromoduro opened production lines for new components in the Basque Country.

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Publications of interest related to Cromoduro (Spanish):

• Cromoduro Innovación y Tecnología (Euskomedia)
• Cromoduro ya es pasto de la piqueta para evitar okupas (Deia 5/09/2014)
• El consistorio quiere derribar Cromoduro para evitar incidentes (Deia 18/07/2014)
• Un incendio en Cromoduro provoca una gran humareda (El Correo 28/04/2014)
• Identifican a 14 personas y detienen a otras 9 en Zorrozaurre (El Correo 23/10/2013)
• La antigua nave de Cromoduro sufre un nuevo incendio (Gara 25/02/2013)
• Queja oficial del Colegio de Abogados por la «redada masiva de Zorrozaurre» (El Correo 31/12/2012)
• Redada contra los ocupas de pabellones de Zorrozaurre (El Correo 8/11/2012)
• Un incendio en una nave abandonada se extiende a una empresa eléctrica de Zorrozaurre (El Correo 2/11/2012)
• Un ‘ladrón de luz’ recibe una descarga de 30.000 voltios al colarse en una nave de Bilbao (El Correo 5/01/2012)
• Electrocutado al caer a un generador en un pabellón abandonado de Zorrozaurre (El Correo 4/01/2012)
• CCOO denuncia que cuatro directivos de Cromoduro se reparten medio millón (Gara 11/06/2011)
• Cromoduro presenta concurso con un pasivo de 21 millones (Cinco Días 14/02/2011)
• Trabajo deniega a Cromoduro el despido de 30 de sus 99 empleados (El Correo 27/10/2009)
• El Gobierno Vasco deniega el ERE de Cromoduro (El Correo 26/10/2009)
• Los talleres de Zorrozaurre buscan una salida (El correo 28/06/2009)

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• Zorrozaurre hace memoria(El Correo 24/04/11)

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In 2008, the waste management company Despanorsa (Desperdicios de papel del Norte, S.L.) absorbed Papeles Nervión. The 100-150 people who formed the staff of Papeles Nervión were maintained after the merger operation, and the group went on to manage around 500,000 tons a year. Despanorsa belongs to the paper group SAICA (Spain) and Newark San Andrés (USA) and is a leader in Waste Management for private companies and public bodies in the North of Spain. Its recycling technology consists of sorting, cleaning, baling and selling, as different products such as paper-cardboard and plastic bales, pallets, bulk scrap or textiles are produced.

The building used for years by Papeles Nervión, built in 1950, was demolished in 2018.

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Publications related to Papeles Nervión (spanish):

• Hallan el cadáver de un hombre en una planta de reciclaje de papel en Bilbao (El Correo 11/06/2007)
• Despanorsa y Papeles Nervión acuerdan su fusión, efectiva desde el 1 de enero (Europa Press 02/01/2008)

In April 2009, 102 workers of Matricería Nervión went on a week strike in protest against the layoff presented by the company. This entailed the dismissal of 14 employees, five of them union delegates. The Industry Federation backed the strike and demanded that the direction of Matricería Nervión “immediately withdraw a file as arbitrary as bizarre”. Three of the delegates affected by the layoff have resolutions in their favor issued by the Labor Inspectorate for trade union harassment. The management tried to make the staff commit to work an hour and a quarter more every day, almost 300 hours more at the end of the year. In June 2009, Macrería Nervión entered into voluntary bankruptcy. In 2013 it changed its name to Útiles Matrices S.A.

The building occupied by the company was demolished in 2018.

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Publications of interest related to Matricería Nervión (spanish):

• La junta de acreedores de Matricería Nervión acuerda liquidar la empresa (El correo 12/05/2010)
• La crisis de la automoción arrastra a la quiebra a las empresas de moldes (El País 21/06/2009)
• Trabajadores de Matricería Nervión afirman que es viable y rechazan su cierre (Gara 12/05/2010)

Two workers of the company remember that, while it was located in Zorrozaurre, many of them used the boats to reach the peninsula and the talk about the queues formed there due to the high number of people working in the workshops in the area.

Around 2003-2004 the company sold the land it occupied in La Ribera, about 14,025 square meters. In October 2008, three buildings that in the past housed the company Elorriaga Industrias Eléctricas S.A. (Lancor) were demolished.

The conservation of the old Lancor office building is contemplated after the intervention of the urban Plan.

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After the plywood, the import of wood goes down, so the sawmill begins to work the chipboard, which is created by compacting sawdust.

Over time, new products appear in the market, so the demand for wood declines and the sawmill is forced to produce many products in order to continue competing with foreign companies. Production declines and the sawmill closes around 93.

After the closure of the company, the large space occupied by the Sawmill is divided, giving rise to several smaller pavilions that are rented to mechanical workshops, carpentry, or blacksmiths among others.

As of 2010, some of these buildings become places for culture and creativity thanks to ZAWP project.
Some of these buildings disappear in 2019 due to the progress of the urban plan.

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Since 1957 the company starts to settle in European countries such as the United Kingdom and Norway, and begins to export to the United States, Brazil, China, Singapore or Malaysia among others. Since the mid 90s Vicinay has been at the forefront of manufacturing chains for the oil industry. The chain that Vicinay produces is continuous; there are no cracks or cuts between the links but they are hot-bonded so that it is impossible to break or separate them.

Approximately in 2014, Vicinay Cadenas began its progressive transfer, opening several branches and moving its production center to a new plant in Sestao. Most of the pavilions that made up the space occupied by the company were demolished in 2018. That same year, the neighbors began to use the former company’s office building as a socio-cultural space under the name Bizinahi.
This is one of the buildings preserved within the Master Plan, and intended to be the headquarters of Tknika, a center for applied research and innovation in professional training.

Vicinay Cadenas is still present in La Ribera de Deusto, occupying the Coromina building.

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Publications related to Talleres Zar (spanish):

• Aclaración sobre un conflicto laboral.
• Presiones respecto al conflicto laboral.

Cipriano, a former workshop worker, says that they used the crane that gave name to the cultural space (Garabia) to climb to the roof. In his visit to the neighborhood 20 years after leaving, he also remembers the amount of people that used to be in the area before.

This is one of the industrial buildings that is conserved within the Master Plan as public equipment for cultural use.

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This building, related to the naval industry, even had its own crane and a small dike. Over time the owners changed and in this process, Abet Laminati was the latest company in occupying the building. In recent years the company moved its headquarters in Bilbao to another place and left the space empty as part of the landscape of La Ribera.

After more than 100 years of history, the building was demolished in November 2016 noviembre de 2016; the Urban Master Plan has led to the disappearance of the oldest industrial building on the island.

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Miguel tells about “the adventure” of moving to La Ribera, and how it was to get adapted to this small town within the city of Bilbao. He also talks about the rehabilitation of the houses, which began when he arrived in the neighborhood and forced him to stay away from home for two years.

Santi SOS talks about the squatter movement and the boom it had in the area due to the amount of abandoned houses that existed for various reasons. He talks about the relationship with the neighbors, about how unknown this area was for him until he decided to move in, about his reasons for not wanting to leave it later and about the feeling of closeness and the neighborhood atmosphere that does not exist in other areas of the city.

Santi SOS webpage.

Nowadays Ascen also works in a butcher shop, following with a long falimiar saga, and she remembers with nostalgia the beauty of the Ribera.

Almudena and Robert bought an apartment in Zorrotzaurre in 2000. They both say that it is an area with its own character and they remember that when they arrived the neighborhood was a great unknown to many Bilbao residents.

Almudena was part of the Neighborhood Association when the Urban Plan was announced and not being invited to be an active part of the process, they decided to generate their own process, creating a Forum in which to openly discuss and talk about the wishes of its inhabitants for the future of the neighborhood.

When they remember their early years in La Ribera, they talk about the feeling of living in a town and how once they got to know the bars and the people, they began to leave Deusto aside.

They talk about a fundamental part of the neighborhood, the Neighbor Association. When the big companies were still working there was an Association that later disappeared. Due to a problem in one of the houses an assembly was held in the square, thanks to which the Association was reactivated. Since then the it has a large presence in La Ribera de Deusto.

Constan still visits the neighborhood regularly with her bike. She wonders around the neighborhood remembering with affection what the landscape looked like years ago and her routine when she worked on it. She says that she used to take a little boat to cross to the other side of the river. At that time the public transport was full of people coming to La Ribera, with queues to board the boat or restaurants full of people.

From the txoko Beko Herri they talk about how the neigborhood used to be; they remember the division into 3 parts that existed in the neighborhood and list the different shops or businesses that were there, like Emiliano’s hairdresser who spent the days between the bar and his job of cutting the hair of the children of La Ribera. They also remember fondly neighbors, families and houses that were part of the landscape, like that in which there were pigs or the one that had a henhouse.