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- Citizens will register a motion to be debated in the next plenary session that will contain a crash plan, a battery of measures to resuscitate the Gisbert Market, among which will be the launch of a small work consisting of a gap opening to connect the Interior and exterior face of the wall that gives to Gisbert street, stipulations to guarantee the professionalism of the new owners and the variety of the stalls, to facilitate the parking, and to include this area in the tourist offer of the municipality with a weekly market.

The Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena is determined to reactivate and save the Gisbert Market from its disappearance.

The local orange spokesman, Manuel Padín, has recently visited the facilities of this market and has been able to exchange views with Joaquin Espejo, fishmonger and president of the trade association of the square, which showed the spokesman broken tiles, toilets And the general abandonment of space, after more than a year since the last visit of the parties that govern Cartagena, according to the few remaining merchants.

The last works that were carried out were the improvement of the lighting system, "which above all shows the emptiness and abandonment of this emblematic place," said the spokesman.

Manuel Padín recalled that before its remodeling, some 40 years ago, "this plaza of supplies was the referent of the daily purchase of Cartagena and supplied the entire old town and the area of ​​the station."

Its privileged location makes Gisbert Street the natural entrance of the Old Town, its direct ramifications towards the Port of Cartagena, the Castle of the Ducks, make of this place one of the most important tourist traffic of the municipality, Proximity to the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (Arqua), the Auditorium and Congress Center El Batel, the Caridad-Serreta axis, Duque Street, Lake Plaza, the Regional Museum of Modern Art, or the future and revalued Central Cinema "complete Its strategic position that justifies all the possible actions so that this urban market returns to be the throbbing space of supply that was ", explained Manuel Padín.

For the mayor of Ciudadanos, "still echoed in the ears of the older neighbors the cheerful and bustling echo of the urban and traditional bustle, in those distant days was also an open market that opened to the public through spaces from which they appeared The fresh produce of the day, and the strong voices of the merchants singing in their offerings floated in the air. "

For Manuel Padín, "the remodeling ended this life and probably was one of the worst strategic marketing decisions that have been taken in the history of Cartagena. The posts were sequestered and suffered constant changes of location, the space was delimited in Its extremes ... if the strategy of commercial dynamization of an environment should pursue productive success and satisfy potential customers to increase the profitability of the business, we achieved precisely the opposite, they left our place supplies death wound. That sinister project of remodeling and paralysis, the passivity of the years that followed, was part of a bitter plan to close it. "

The spokesman wonders how it is possible that this imposing building only shelters today, March 2017, only a fishmonger and a greengrocer, "last redoubts of a class of Numantine resistance that can only come from the will and vocation of the traders of race ".

The Citizens' spokesman says he can demonstrate with demographic and statistical data that the city of Cartagena needs that market of supply, "to develop its possibilities will relaunch the whole zone".

"There is no political party that has not passed through these facilities with its portfolio of promises, and these merchants tell us that they are tired of so much demagoguery and so many toasts in the sun. It is time to press with concrete and ambitious actions because it is already perceived in The horizon the recovery of the old splendor of the historical center of Cartagena ".

Citizen Shock Plan

Citizens will register a motion that will be debated in the next plenary session that will contain a crash plan, a battery of measures to resuscitate the Gisbert Market, among which will be the attack of a small work consisting of a gap opening to connect the inner face And exterior of the wall that overlooks Gisbert Street, with the aim of gaining visibility and enabling the installation of counter bars so that passers-by could not only see but purchase the products from the street.

"They are works," explains Manuel Padín, "the opening, the linteling and conditioning, which do not involve much investment and yet can generate tremendous appeal."

The Citizens' Initiative will also include a series of stipulations to organize future new sales positions, "must be done in a very intelligent and careful manner, demanding from future holders professional guarantees and their willingness to incorporate added values ​​that enrich the experience of the Customer, on the other hand we must control the variety of the offer to be complementary as a whole. "

Another point of the proposal of Citizens wants to take advantage of the transit factor of national and international visitors and include the market and its surroundings in the tourist offer of the municipality, "you have to dream with ambition and prudence, it is not crazy to close the Street on weekends to set up an antique market, Mediterranean or local handicraft, vintage, gastronomic, this is already being done in Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Avilés, Pontevedra or Cadiz and in many other Spanish cities, a weekly event that attracts to the tourists".

Facilitating parking will be another of the points that will include the citizens' plan to save the square.

The orange formation wants to make clear that this plan of shock can and should be integrated into the current plans of the Government of Cartagena, and join the Municipal Council of Commerce to be qualified by the groups that are represented there.

"It is not the time for more viability and economic plans, it is time to get your hands dirty and get to work and sweat, to take action palpable and do it as soon as possible, if we really want the recovery of the old town of Cartagena must bet Very strong for the Gisbert market, because I am sure it will be one of our best revulsives to relaunch the whole area, and so that future generations can live and enjoy this market as did generations past.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena