The Evaluation Committee of the Plan to Support Investment in the Historical Area (PAICA), met this morning under the chairmanship of the Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and has agreed to initiate the necessary procedures to expand the scope of these actions. Aid to the entire center, eliminating the delimitation by streets that currently exists.
"We believe that a merchant of Medieras Street have the same rights as another that is located on San Francisco Street, to give an example.
Both have their scope of action in the historic center and should be able to qualify for these subsidies, "said the deputy mayor and head of the area of ​​Economic Strategy.
Up to now, the streets and squares that the entrepreneurs should have been to apply for these subsidies were the Plaza de San Francisco and San Ginés, Honda, San Vicente, Caballero, Cuatro Santos, Arco de la Caridad, Duque, Palas, San Antonio The Pobre, Ignacio García and Balcones Azules, and the area included in the square of the Immaculate, of the Cultures and the Lake and the streets Gisbert, Don Matías and Don Roque.
On the other hand, the Monitoring Commission of PAICA has today agreed to grant subsidies of 30,000 euros to El Viejo Almacén, in Campos street;
Venta Abasto, on Honda Street, and the Pharmacy located at number 1 on Serreta Street.
Each of these stores will receive 10,000 euros.
Likewise, the granting of aid to two fashionable stores on San Fernando and Aire streets has been pending approval for technical reasons.
The objective of the PAICA is to stimulate the investment for the opening of new businesses or for the modernization of the existing ones, in premises at the foot of street destined to the commercial activity
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena