The 2nd phase of the commercial revitalization operation in the heart of the city begins.
If the evacuation of hundreds of tons of rubble from the former Brescou islet is the attraction of the moment in the heart of the city, it was played out on Monday June 24, on the occasion of the Hérault-Méditionranée agglomeration council which was held in Vias, an important chapter in the perspective of the commercial revitalization of the historic center.
Nineteen traders come to set up shop
We remember that last week, the Agglo and the economic attractiveness agency Blue presented a system which will initially allow nineteen traders to set up in Rue Muratet, Louis-Bages and Jean -Roger, within premises which belong to the community. Which will, as such, apply low rents and thus allow these professionals, at least that is the idea, to start their business without the pressure of having to pay an astronomical rent each month.
While waiting to learn more about the effectiveness of an operation which is to be linked to the developments which are and will be carried out in the neighborhood, community elected officials have already entered phase 2 of this desired commercial revitalization.
New life for old neighborhood bars
Monday evening therefore, among the 93 items on the agenda, four concerned acquisitions of premises carried out on rue du 4-Septembre, at the very top of the Promenade. In the objective “to commercially develop the ground floors of buildings”, as was stipulated in these deliberations, four premises were purchased by the Agglo, numbers 16, 17, 18 and 19, for the sum of €240,000. Old bars in particular today empty, which should not remain that way for long, after a necessary refreshment. By 2025, the community wishes to establish new businesses on this historic artery of Agde, which is the subject of major requalification work, still according to this same almost symbolic rent system, in order to densify and revitalize the economic fabric of the historic center.
There is no shortage of applications, which is already a first encouraging signal. Sustaining these activities will be another matter, but it is not forbidden to believe in them, quite the contrary.
