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The mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñozhas participated this Wednesday in the XVIII CongressSpanish for Centers and parks Commercial, organized by the Spanish Association of Shopping Centers and Parks in the Navigation Pavilion and which brings together 1,200 professionals from the sector. Among the participants in this congress, which will run until next Friday, are the representatives of the main companies in the sector real estate and the retail sector as well as all the activities that have to do with shopping centers and parks, consultants, architects or builders, among others.
Seville is a destiny safeattractive, solvent and stable to execute investments and develop projects, full of opportunities that can be taken advantage of and with an enormous margin of growth towards the South, the East, the North and the West.
In few cities is there currently such a volume of new neighborhoods under construction that they are going to need all the services and equipment and, of course, also commercial areas”, highlighted the Mayor of Seville during his speech collected in a note by the City Council Seville.
Among the novelties of this edition, the fact that it is the first congress in Spain that has obtained the AIS accessibility certification stands out, which highlights the «commitment» of the sector of shopping centers and parks with universal accessibility. The Congress has been designed with «perspective of accessibility and inclusion, saving the structural limitations already existing in the space that houses it, the Seville Navigation Pavilion». In fact, they have taken the «measurements necessary» to ensure the »greatest degree of autonomy«, both for visitors and exhibitors through routing, accessible signage or mobile guidance applications for people with hearing or vision problems.
“The celebration of this congress is a reason for joy for two reasons. The first, as it is a symptom of the long-awaited return to normality and the reactivation economic, since the previous congress was held in Madrid in 2019; and the second is the designation of Seville as its headquarters, for which I want to sincerely thank the Spanish Association of Shopping Centers and Parks for choosing us as its headquarters after these two years of forced unemployment”, highlighted the Mayor of Seville.
Muñoz explained that the commercial sector, like most economic activities, has experienced “and is experiencing difficult times” in recent years for various reasons, such as the pandemicthe problems in the global supply chain, the energy crisis and the war of Ukraine. “From the public administrations we are not alien and we have also had, each within their powers, to readjust to the new situation and redirect efforts to provide the support that citizens and companies needed at all times”, he pointed out.
In this sense, he highlighted that the City Council has supported the «investment productive and quality», «and an obsession since 2015 has been streamlining and administrative simplification to facilitate new developments and investments. We have done this by modifying the regulations to commit to responsible declaration, integrating the Environment and Urban Planning areas to avoid duplication and reduce time, and by firmly committing to modernization through the implementation of telematics in all procedures”, has explained.
In this regard, he recalled that the last shopping center built in Seville, Lagoh, meant at the time an investment injection of some 240 million euros and when it was launched, the creation of around 1,500 jobs, half of them managed through agreements with the Ministry of Employment. “But he was not the only one. There are other commercial parks underway in different parts of the city in the different urban developments that we have unblocked in recent years”, added the Mayor of Seville.
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