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Awnings downtown area have allowed boosting the commercial activity of small and medium business in the warmer months, a sector which comprises more than 2,400 companies and represents more than 12% of total employment in the municipality.

The City Council is working on a comprehensive plan to provide new spaces shade commercial environments, playgrounds and gardens of the town.

The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, today made a tour of the downtown shopping area of ​​the city, accompanied by the president of the Merchants Association Silverware and Tatters, Marisa Cano;

a visit in which the alderman announced that they are working on different projects to support and promote small and medium business, "which brings together more than 2,400 companies and represents more than 12% of total employment in the municipality."

In fact, the mayor noted that "in the last three years this sector has experienced continuous growth, and in 2015, the City recorded more than five hundred communications for the opening of new retail outlets."

And it is a sector with a significant presence in the local economic fabric, with 23,500 workers accounting for 12.28% of total employment in the municipality, a weight higher than recorded in the whole region (10 65%) and Spain (10.64%).

The councilors of Commerce, Maruja Pelegrin, and Modernization, Jose Guillen, also attended the tour, in which the two representatives of the traders moved their proposals to the government team and highlighted the role of new awnings installed this summer in Platería streets, Tatters, St. Kitts and squares Joufré, Esteve Mora and Puxmarina.

This initiative, which responds to a demand made from trade associations, has allowed boosting the commercial activity in the warmer months.

"The entoldamiento of certain points of the city benefits both Murcia and tourists who visit us, who can now eat and enjoy the shopping and leisure Murcia throughout the day, without the high temperatures pose a insurmountable problem, "said José Ballesta, who added that" the canvas, which repels up to 95% of the heat, will not be withdrawn until October, but always depend on the weather. "

Integral Plan Shadow

In fact, the City Council is working on a comprehensive plan of shade for the municipality, which includes more specifics awnings, new systems that protect the playgrounds of heat-the first is already installed at Plaza Castilla and planting more than 500 trees to natural areas of shade.

"The climatological characteristics of the city compel us to act on several fronts to respond both productive sectors key to our local economy, as the daily needs of families Murcia;

acting through a comprehensive plan that combines thermal comfort and aesthetic criteria of harmony and unity, "said the mayor.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia