Frontini: “The center is recovering”

From January 2023 to April 2024 the balance of commercial activities is active for 27 units. The mayor is the one to go crazy, just as two other businesses in Piazza delle Erbe are closing their doors, attempting a counter-narrative to what the city within the walls, dying from an economic point of view, wants. But if the figures are incontrovertible, the reality is much more complex and nuanced than that depicted by the first citizen. The citizens themselves pointed this out to him on his Facebook profile. The times in which every post by the mayor was greeted by a flood of hearts, smileys and comments praising the magnificent and progressive fortunes of the city are long gone. But let’s go in order.

Frontini: “The center is recovering”

The active balance of 27 units derives from the difference between 53 openings and 26 terminations. “The official statistics, processed by the offices, also allow an interpretation of the commercial dynamics in the individual areas of the center – we read in a note -. In the general positive trend, the positive balances (+4) of via Marconi, via Cardinal La Fontaine and most of the shopping streets stand out, in none of which the closures exceed the new openings”.

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Franco: “Even the areas that are most affected by the crisis are showing signs of recovery”

“In addition to the clearly positive balance and the two to one ratio between openings and closures – declares councilor Silvio Franco – the uniformity of this data in the different areas must be underlined. Even the areas most affected by the crisis are showing signs of recovery with new businesses which, among other things, operate in differentiated sectors”. Franco highlights the case of via Saffi which, “although still highlighting objective difficulties, has seen new openings and is showing signs of vitality with innovative proposals and coordinated promotional initiatives”.

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