“What type of businesses would you like to see open near you?” This is the question we asked you on Instagram a few days ago. There are a hundred of you who took the time to respond to us (thank you!). A brief summary of your feedback… which will prove useful to those with a business project in our neighborhoods.
1/ Fresh fish. With three fishmongers for 190,000 inhabitants (and a few fishmongers' stands in the markets), this is the answer that came up most often. Particularly in the lower 20th, in Père-Lachaise and Pelleport. Note that a fishmonger, Terminus des Pêcheurs, opened at the beginning of 2021 on Boulevard Davout, between Porte de Bagnolet and Porte de Montreuil… without managing to continue.
2/ Clothes/shoes for adults and children “affordable”, “durable and stylish”. If the 20th arrondissement is rather well stocked with food shops, the choice is much less vast in terms of clothing, but also decoration… which increases the use of online commerce.
3/ Homemade ice cream. Indeed, while some pastry shops/grocery stores/chocolate shops sell ice cream during the summer season, the 20th arrondissement has no real ice cream parlor… which many of you deplore!
4/ Cafés & restaurants for children/families. Here again, several places with play areas for children (SuperCafé and Kimia Café) existed for a while, but are now closed. It's difficult to be profitable in Paris when you need a place big enough to accommodate children… (We are also ready to help and support the next project of this kind – we find it such a shame that it doesn't exist more).
We will specify that the shortages are not the same in all corners of the 20th arrondissement. There are strong disparities between the most commercial districts (rues de Belleville, de Ménilmontant, des Pyrénées), with a population already partly gentrified, and those which struggle to see businesses set up, like the gates of the 20th, between the Boulevard des Maréchaux and the ring road, where the presence of social housing suggests lower purchasing power.
Among your other answers? Organic vegetables, organic stores, coffee shop (in the lower 20th), shoemaker, butcher, pastry chef, cinema, haberdashery, stationery, spa, ice cream parlor, sports store, gym, wine bar, cocktail bar, violin maker , natural beauty products, bookstore-café, bubble tea, tea shop (for the south of the 20th), DIY/DIY store (in Gambetta), vegetarian restaurant, “new generation” florist, concept store, pet shop, “nice third places”, a good Asian restaurant in the Réunion district, bike repairers, cheese shops open on Mondays, Fnac, vegan grocery store, bulk shops, nice hotels, Mexican restaurant…
???? The kidsfriendly SuperCafé, rue de Fontarabie, now closed and replaced by Jolie Môme, had a games room for children with a bar at their height, a slide, but also books and a reading cabin. / ©️ SuperCafé
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