Tarragonès comarca · No. 1 · Monday 28 September 2026 · 6-minute read

A McDonald's franchise and a 60,000 euro property firm launch in the Tarragonès comarca amid eleven auctions

The city of Tarragona gains a company set up to run McDonald's restaurants under franchise, and in Salou a real estate firm launches with 60,000 euros, more than seven times the average of the 14 companies registered over the week across the Tarragonès comarca. The Port de Tarragona closes its 11.8 million euro tender to connect cruise ships today, and the comarca has eleven open auctions, nine of them closing no later than 5 October.

Eleven open auctions in the Tarragonès comarca, from two houses in Castell de Montornès to half a garage space in Torredembarra

• The Castell de Montornès housing estate puts two houses from 2006 and 2007 up for auction. A court is auctioning a detached two-storey house with garage and porch, with 95 square metres built on the ground floor alone, in a 2007 building with a median CasasValue of 196,800 euros and bidding until today, Monday 28. The other is a 130 square metre terraced house on two floors, from 2006, with a median building CasasValue of 251,886 euros, open until Wednesday 30.
• Torredembarra adds a flat and half a garage space. The 56 square metre two-bedroom flat is in a 1990 block with a median CasasValue of 171,433 euros, the most modest of the buildings with an auction in the comarca. In the same municipality, an undivided half share of a garage space is up for auction. Both accept bids until 5 October.
• Tarragona city puts four homes out to bid. The flat in a 1960 building with a median CasasValue of 318,254 euros, the highest figure among the auctioned buildings in the comarca, accepts bids until 30 September. The city's list is completed by a home that closes today, another open until 1 October and a duplex open until 8 October.
• Vila-seca, Salou and Vilallonga del Camp complete the map. In Vila-seca, a home accepts bids until today, in Salou another until 30 September and in Vilallonga del Camp there is one more auction, the last to close, on 13 October. Nine of the eleven end no later than 5 October.

The port closes its 11.8 million euro tender to plug in cruise ships today and keeps the demolition open until 16 October

• Cruise ships at the Muelle de Baleares quay will connect to the onshore grid. The Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona, the port authority, is tendering the mobile system of Power Unit boxes with cable-carrier chains that brings power to the ships, with its initial operation and full maintenance, for 11,786,763 euros before VAT. It was published on 29 August and bids close today, 28 September. With the ships plugged in, their auxiliary engines can be switched off at berth.
• The demolition is the tender still open. The same body is looking for a contractor for the dismantling of installations and buildings at the Port de Tarragona, for 901,089 euros before VAT, published on 18 September with bids until 16 October. A demolition or construction waste management firm has almost three weeks to prepare its bid.
• A Costa Daurada builder will lay the lines to the ZAL. Gestión Ingeniería y Construcción de la Costa Dorada won the underground 25 kV lines from the Tarragona substation to the ZAL, the Zona de Actividades Logísticas, tendered for 1,944,000 euros before VAT, according to the record updated on 21 September. The works bring power to the port's logistics area.
• Two more tenders await award. The project for two power lines between the new ZAL station and the Muelle de Baleares and the power line between the Muelle de Andalucía and the Muelle de Cataluña are having their bids assessed. With the four pieces, the port has put out 25.3 million in electrical works since May to supply ships with power at berth.

Salou accounts for three of the four new building and property firms, with one launched on 60,000 euros

• A Salou asset-holding company starts with 60,000 euros. Artha Properties 2026 SL, a private limited company registered in the BORME of 25 September, Spain's official companies gazette, is set up to buy, build, sell and let property, with the largest capital of the 14 new companies in the comarca this week, more than seven times the average.
• Two more builders choose Salou. RF Solutia SL, with 4,450 euros, will build, develop and refurbish buildings, and a company for masonry and refurbishment of homes and residential communities, with 3,000 euros, completes the trio, both in the BORME of 24 September.
• El Catllar gains a residential builder. CH Build Reform SL, published on 23 September, is set up with 3,000 euros to put up residential buildings in the inland part of the comarca. In the city of Tarragona, Trazos Mobel Global SL, with another 3,000 euros, will make wooden joinery for construction (BORME of 21 September).

The city of Tarragona, Salou and El Morell gain nine more companies, led by a McDonald's franchise

• A McDonald's franchisee sets up its company in Tarragona city. Orbemesa Sol Ric SL registers with 20,000 euros, the second largest capital of the 14 new companies in the comarca, to run restaurants under a McDonald's franchise, including their fit-out and maintenance (BORME of 25 September).
• Food service is the sector opening the most companies. In Salou, Foodball Catering SL enters hospitality with 3,000 euros (BORME of 24 September), and in the city of Tarragona another company making prepared meals and Imperial World SL, a caterer, bring restaurant registrations for the week to four.
• Two software firms register in Tarragona city. Fintutor Labs SL and Qvertsp Digital SL, the latter also in graphic arts, register with 3,000 euros each (BORME of 23 and 24 September).
• Textiles, jewellery and advertising round off the list. Olysea Brands SL will make clothing in the city of Tarragona with 3,000 euros (BORME of 21 September). A wholesale jeweller sets up in El Morell and an advertising agency in Salou.

The Consorci per a la Formació Contínua opens two lines to train staff at small firms in the Tarragonès comarca

• The only two calls open to companies are for training. The Consorci per a la Formació Contínua is the Catalan body for in-work training. Its line A funds training programmes that companies submit for their own staff, and line B those submitted by organisations for workforces of fewer than 50 employees at member companies. Both came out on 25 September, and the BDNS, the national grants database, does not yet give an amount or deadline.
• Rural retail receives it through its chamber. Empresa i Treball, the Catalan government's business and labour department, entrusts the Consell de Cambres, the council of Catalan chambers of commerce, without a competitive call, with the ARREL programme to support rural retail 2026, published on 21 September. It is not applied for directly but channelled through the chambers of commerce.
• Vila-seca opens 262,090 euros for local sport. It is the only open call from a town council in the comarca: grants for sports clubs and athletes of the municipality, with applications until 31 October. The other seven municipal grants of the week, from Salou, the city of Tarragona and La Secuita, are direct awards to social, educational and sports organisations.

Compare the CasasValue of any building in the city of Tarragona, Salou or La Pobla de Montornès on the map

From 20 to 27 September, the Port de Tarragona kept open the tender to connect cruise ships at the Muelle de Baleares, which closes today, 28 September, and the dismantling tender published on the 18th, with bids until 16 October, and awarded the 25 kV lines to the ZAL. The city of Tarragona, La Pobla de Montornès, Torredembarra, Vila-seca, Salou and Vilallonga del Camp have properties up for auction, Salou, El Catllar, the city of Tarragona and El Morell gained new companies, and Vila-seca, Salou, the city of Tarragona and La Secuita published municipal grants. Altafulla, Constantí, Creixell, Roda de Berà, La Canonja, Els Pallaresos, La Pobla de Mafumet, La Riera de Gaià, Perafort, La Nou de Gaià, Salomó, Vespella de Gaià and Renau have no auctions, new companies, tenders or municipal grants listed for the week.

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