Nearly two decades later, Metro do Porto (MdP) is preparing to abandon the Antas Tower. The company's new headquarters, on Avenida de França in Boavista, are expected to begin construction as early as 2025.
The transport company's expectation is that, once the final details have been finalised, ‘there will be conditions for the public tender for the contract to build the new headquarters to be launched in early 2025’, according to Jornal de Notícias (JN). The contract is expected to take around two and a half years and will cost 8.5 million euros.
Eduardo Souto Moura, the architect who designed the first phase of the metro and four stations on the Pink Line, is also taking on the project for the company's new headquarters, which should be ready in 2028.
Metro explains that it expects it ‘to be located above the Pink and Ruby Line stations, in Casa da Música - which will be the heart of the network - facing Avenida de França’. With a possible expansion of the team, the Porto transport company would be subject to renting more rooms at the location mentioned.
The company explains that, apart from the new operations and maintenance centre, there will also be ‘very large spaces, areas for installing the management bodies and all the departments’, adding that the new building has the ‘added value of having a safe margin for the growth of the Metro team’.