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The Municipal Socialist Group demands that PP councilors meet the demands of local merchants, who have seen their sales drop significantly in recent years, and that the promotion of cultural activities and tourism promotion to recover The San Cristóbal neighborhood as an important commercial focus with attractiveness.
The PSOE Councilor, David Romera has highlighted the concern that exists between the small merchants of the San Cristóbal neighborhood and the Plaza de Abastos de las Hortalizas, who have accused a significant decline in sales in recent years that has to To see with the economic crisis and the lack of promotion and promotion of the commerce of the Neighborhood by the local authorities, which has derived the closure of many traditional establishments.
Romera considers that "it is not enough that the streets are repaired" with the funds coming from the EIB loan for the reconstruction of Lorca if it is not accompanied by a Plan for Reactivation and Promotion of Commerce in the Barrio de San Cristóbal, "which is staying Behind in relation to other commercial areas of Lorca ".
The socialist mayor reports that in BORM no.
139 of June 19, there is a provision of the Ministry of Employment, Universities and Enterprise of the Autonomous Community, which calls for aid to local corporations aimed at reactivating the open shopping centers for the adequacy of municipal infrastructure and improve The competitiveness of retail.
Therefore, they demand that the PP "to concur to this provision to reactivate the small existing trade in the Plaza de Abastos de las Hortalizas and its surroundings of the San Cristóbal neighborhood with the execution of actions that suppose its re-launch as a modern commercial nucleus and attractive".
The PSOE demands the placement of awnings that cover all the pedestrian space occupied by the stalls in the square, the placement of new urban furniture, improve information signs in the streets of its surroundings, improve public lighting, put a more attractive pavement and Recover the garden in height that existed on the roof of the Plaza de Abastos, its main distinctive and unique element, which has been completely lost by a total lack of care.
It indicates that the decline of commercial activity in the Plaza de Abastos de las Hortalizas "is very significant in recent years", appearing only lively on Saturday mornings.
Romero warns that "if you do not act with urgency, Lorca will end up losing one of its most emblematic and historic commercial spaces, since its origins go back to the eighteenth century."
The mayor insists on launching an Integral Plan for Reactivation and Promotion of Traditional Trade in the San Cristóbal neighborhood "to be carried out in direct collaboration with the business fabric of the area which would imply an economic relaunch of the sector and that the Commerce of the Neighborhood, as Always was, to return to become an attractive commercial focus that attracts buyers from other places, "and should be accompanied by other initiatives such as the enhancement of emblematic spaces such as Plaza de la Estrella, the Embroidery Museum of the Incarnate Pass, Church of San Cristóbal or the Old Bridge, and its tourist promotion.
Source: PSOE Lorca
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