By The Star Staff
In order to stimulate economic activity in the Cupey area, San Juan District 4 Rep. Víctor Parés Otero on Sunday proposed a program called “Market Square in El Señorial,” a novel concept that seeks to create a space within El Señorial Plaza shopping center so that farmers, as well as small business owners, can sell their products.
“Our mayor of San Juan, Miguel Romero, has been very effective in promoting small merchants in shopping centers such as Plaza Las Américas,” the lawmaker said. “Taking a page from that book, we are developing the concept of ‘Market Plaza in El Señorial,’ a space where our farmers, as well as those small merchants with artisanal products or products associated with agriculture, can sell, under one roof, their products to consumers who frequent the plaza.”
“This is a model that has been used with great success in multiple jurisdictions and it focuses on identifying a space, in this case in the Señorial Plaza shopping center, to establish a mini market square, with kiosks selling agricultural products, as well as areas to eat and enjoy a multitude of other gastronomic and local products,” Parés Otero added.
The legislator said he will be communicating in the coming days with the mayor, as well as with Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda, and executives of the aforementioned shopping center, to outline aspects of the proposal.
“We strongly believe in gastronomic tourism, whose activities include, but are not limited to, visiting restaurants serving traditional food, visiting markets, such as the one we are proposing, participating in local festivals, and participating in local cooking workshops,” Parés Otero said. “One of the objectives of this tourism is to discover and experience new flavors, aromas and culinary preparations, and having a platform such as the mini market square in the Señorial Plaza is another mechanism to boost the flow of visitors to the area.”
The initiative joins another presented by Parés Otero on the creation of a gastronomic route on the busy Paraná and Winston Churchill avenues in the El Señorial section of Río Piedras.
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