Lanzarote En Pie will ask in the next Arrecife Plenary session that the City Council draft a comprehensive support plan for local commerce "to establish the strategic lines of action for the recovery of the sector."
"From LEP we believe that the city must be built on the foundations of social cohesion, and one of the fundamental pillars of this construction is urban commerce. Local commerce adds value because it contributes to the creation of community, helps in the structuring of neighborhoods and collaborates with local production, among other aspects. To a large extent, the resilience of a city is determined by the strength of its commercial fabric," they point out in a statement.
The spokesperson for LEP, Leticia Padilla, explained that “currently the local commerce of Arrecife faces the future with uncertainty.” “The various economic crises have been hitting small and medium-sized businesses for many years and are increasingly undermining their capacity to resist the onslaught. To this we must add the rise of electronic commerce, large commercial areas or the implementation of global companies in the municipality. Given this context, the situation seems to be complicated and the survival of local commerce is compromised in a progressive agony; abandoning it to its fate is condemning it to its disappearance,” adds the councilor.
For this reason, she considers it "a priority" that the Local Administration "create the conditions that allow them to compete with the greatest possible equity in a fair framework." Therefore, from LEP they propose some "lines of action that contemplate the promotion of the commercial image of the city with campaigns coordinated under a common logo; the remodeling of commercial areas with free parking hours for customers and improved accessibility; and the modernization of the commercial fabric with training courses, preparation of a resource guide, constant and fluid communication and the creation of the figure of the specialized Informant, who will centralize municipal information relating to companies in a single point of the City Council."
Leticia Padilla has also announced that she will request “the execution of the plenary agreement of January 29, 2021, in relation to the creation of a rental exchange of commercial premises in Arrecife, so that the owners who adhere to it have bonuses in municipal fees and taxes in exchange for placing the rental price at affordable levels.”
