The restaurant that tried to be the city's heart becomes the headquarters of a company that actually is one.
The emblematic 360 restaurant, which featured Spain's first rotating dining venue, closed in 2016 after years of operation in the Forum business center. Cívica Software, a Granada-based company with 300+ employees and €16M+ annual revenue, is expanding rapidly with 20% year-over-year growth and 50+ new hires in 2026.
- Cívica Software investing €1 million to transform the 360 rotating restaurant into headquarters
- The restaurant closed in 2016 after operating for years; original construction cost over €40 million
- Cívica has 300+ employees, €16M+ annual revenue, 20% year-over-year growth, 50+ new hires in 2026
Cívica Software will invest €1 million to transform Granada's defunct rotating restaurant into its new headquarters, symbolizing the city's shift toward a technology-driven economy after a decade of closure.
A decade after Granada's most distinctive restaurant closed its doors, the rotating dining room that once crowned the Forum business center is about to spin back to life—not as a place to eat, but as the nerve center of a technology company that has become the city's most visible symbol of economic reinvention.
The 360 restaurant was built as a marvel. Three major construction firms—Corporación García Arrabal, Constructora El Partal, and Sabika—backed the project, investing more than 40 million euros in an ambitious vision. Architect Carlos Quintanilla designed the building to house offices for over a hundred companies and serve as Granada's answer to a world-class financial district. The rotating restaurant was the crown jewel: Spain's first of its kind, completing a full rotation every 72 minutes while diners looked out across the Vega plains, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the city's layered architecture below. The Manzanil group ran the restaurant through various incarnations until it closed for good in 2016.
Now Cívica Software, a Granada-based company that develops business software solutions, has signed a lease on the space. The company plans to spend one million euros completely reimagining the 500-square-meter room—plus its terraces—into its new headquarters. Josep Roig, the company's CEO, confirmed the investment to the local press. The move makes practical sense: Cívica already occupies the fourth floor of the same Forum building and has outgrown that space. The company employs more than 300 people, a third of them working outside Granada, and shows no signs of slowing down.
The numbers tell the story of a business in sustained acceleration. In 2025, Cívica closed the year with revenue exceeding 16 million euros and growth of 20 percent—not a one-time spike but the continuation of double-digit annual increases stretching back a decade. So far in 2026, the company has hired more than 50 new employees. "We need the space, and these emblematic installations in our own building were perfect," Roig explained.
The renovation will preserve what made the restaurant distinctive while transforming it into a modern workplace. The glass dome that once enclosed diners will remain, and one of the two large terraces will become an extension of the office itself. Rather than traditional assigned desks, Cívica operates on the model now standard among software companies competing for talent: hot-desking, where employees move through the space with their laptops, choosing where to work based on what inspires them that day. Some days that might be a desk with a monitor. Other days it might be the terrace, where bioclimatic pergolas will provide shade and shelter. The company offers absolute flexibility for remote work, so the office becomes less a place where you must be and more a place where you can be.
The transformation carries symbolic weight that extends beyond real estate. Ten years ago, the rotating restaurant represented Granada's ambition to become something grander than it was. It failed. The building stood half-empty, the restaurant dark. Now a technology company—the kind of business that barely existed in Granada when the Forum was built—is pouring a million euros into the same space, betting that the future belongs not to grand gestures of traditional commerce but to the unglamorous work of writing code and solving problems for clients across Spain and beyond. The restaurant that once tried to be the city's financial heart will become the headquarters of a company that actually is one.
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We need the space, and these emblematic installations in our own building were perfect.— Josep Roig, CEO of Cívica Software
La Conversación del Hearth Otra perspectiva de la historia
Why does it matter that a defunct restaurant becomes a tech office? Isn't that just real estate recycling?
Because it's not really about the building. It's about what the building represents. Granada spent 40 million euros trying to create a financial center with a rotating restaurant as its crown jewel. It didn't work. Now a software company—something that barely existed then—is thriving in the same building. That's the story.
But Cívica is already in the building. They're just moving up a few floors.
Exactly. They've outgrown the space they occupy. They're hiring 50 people in a single year. They've been growing 20 percent annually for a decade. They need room to expand, and they're choosing to stay in Granada rather than move to Madrid or Barcelona. That's the real shift.
What does the rotating restaurant part add to this? Is it just nostalgia?
It's the visual metaphor. The restaurant was the symbol of what Granada wanted to be in 2000—cosmopolitan, innovative, a destination. It failed. But the building itself didn't fail. The city didn't fail. The economy just changed. Now the same space houses something that actually works, that actually grows, that actually keeps people employed in Granada.
So this is about economic transformation, not architecture.
It's both. The architecture is the proof. You can see it, touch it, sit in the glass dome and work. That's more convincing than any statistic about the tech sector.