Westfield Splau

Westfield Splau is URW’s western pillar in the Barcelona metro, located in Cornellà de Llobregat at the convergence of the AP-7, B-23, and B-20 motorways. The 55,000-sqm enclosed centre serves the dense Baix Llobregat county, an industrial-residential corridor housing close to a million residents that lacks any other large-format shopping centre at this scale. Splau opened in 2010 and was rebranded under the Westfield label in 2020, completing the trio of URW’s Barcelona metropolitan assets.

Anchor mix is mass-market: a Carrefour hypermarket on the lower level provides the daily-necessity engine, with Primark, H&M, and a tightly curated Inditex cluster (Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius) handling fashion volume. Cinesa’s multiplex and a 25-restaurant food court extend dwell time meaningfully beyond the typical Spanish suburban average. Splau’s family positioning is reinforced by an indoor playground, a Decathlon under negotiation as anchor expansion, and event programming oriented around Catalan school calendars.

The asset benefits from Sunday-trading authorisation under Catalunya’s tourist-zone framework, the same regulatory status that allows Maremagnum and a small set of central Barcelona properties to operate seven days. For Splau, this translates to roughly 18 to 22 percent of weekly visits arriving on Sundays, a meaningful lift over comparable Spanish suburban centres restricted to six trading days.

Splau’s commercial role for URW is volume conversion at scale. Where La Maquinista anchors northern regional capture and Glòries handles urban premium, Splau is the metro’s mass-market engine, with one of the highest visitor-to-resident ratios in URW’s European portfolio.