4-floor market eyed here
Posted on February 10, 2003 - Filed Under News |
VENDORS at the Malimgas Public Market Phase 1 may have put off their planned rally after meeting with Mayor Benjamin Lim last Wednesday where he showed them the blueprint for a four-storey public market, he planned to build.
Mayor Lim sat down with officers and members of the Malimgas Dagupan Vendors Federation headed by Eduardo Cervantes, some of whom are resisting their transfer to the idle MC Adore Hotel which the city is scheduled to acquire for P50 million.
Lim said the first floor of the edifice would be a wet market, the second floor for dry goods and the third and fourth floors for pay parking. The building would be provided with escalators and elevators.
Promising the edifice to be a landmark project of the city to rival even the existing commercial malls here, Lim said the vendors in the about-to-be constructed public market need not pay for their rights but only their monthly rentals.
Informed earlier about the rally being hatched up by some vendors, Lim said they can rally even for one year but this will not prevent the city government from transferring them to MC Adore to jumpstart the construction of the new market.
The MC Adore Hotel will be improved, sectionalized and made very conducive to buying and trading, Lim said, rejecting the suggestion of vendors to be relocated to Galvan street,
But he said the vendors would not be transferred until the loan that would be applied for by the city for the project is finally released by the lending bank.
The mayor promised that when the new market is built, there shall be no more ambulant vendors as the new edifice would have enough space allotted to all.
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