Trade. Municipality and Sogemi together for the rebirth of the Rombon covered market
Tajani: "A collaboration that will allow us to give back to the inhabitants a renewed commercial and social place"
Milan, July 28 2020 – After Santa Maria del Suffragio, Lorenteggio, Morsenchio, Wagner and Lagosta, the covered municipal market of Rombon also begins its journey to become a protagonist again in the economic and social life of its neighbourhood, Feltre.
The guidelines for the technical-economic and legal feasibility study for the assignment of the current property in via Rombon 34 for the construction of a multifunctional sales structure with the obligation for the concessionaire to create structural restoration and plant and functional adaptation interventions. Councilor Cristina Tajani announced this to the operators during her visit to the construction site of the new Lagosta market which will open its doors in April 2021.
“The provision adopted on Rombon - explains the Councilor for Labor Policies, Productive Activities and Commerce Tajani - is part of the broader strategy conducted in recent years by the Administration to promote the evolutionary transformation of the Municipal Markets, aimed at making them not only point of exchange of goods but also of ideas and relationships, through forms of hybridization between classic commercial activities - however prevalent - and activities with social, cultural, aggregative and recreational purposes. The collaboration with Sogemi, the Administration's in-house company, can represent an opportunity to experiment with a new distribution method that integrates the wholesale supply chain with retail sales".
Specifically, the Rombon covered municipal market is in a state of decay, as often reported by citizens and Municipality 3, due to the progressive cessation of commercial activities and the consequent lack of maintenance. To date there is only one commercial operator active on the ground floor and four operators who are assigned the cellars in the basement for storage use. There is therefore an urgent need for a substantial structural restoration and plant and functional adaptation, the costs of which are estimated at approximately 1 million euros. It is also necessary to launch an action to enhance the structure with the aim of encouraging the development of a multifunctional reality which, while remaining a commercial presence, can fulfill an aggregating function for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
The feasibility study developed by Sogemi will have to include a more appropriate mix of activities to reconcile the commercial offer, which is however prevalent, with the implementation of social, cultural, aggregative and recreational initiatives. All costs of interventions on the structure and adaptation of the systems will be borne by the company. The assignee must undertake to employ the staff employed by companies already present within the market. Ownership of the property will always remain the property of the Administration while the costs incurred for the redevelopment will be deducted from the rental fees.
Updated: 28/07/2020