Palma town hall wants to try and ensure the continuance of traditional establishments in the city. These include cafés, bakers, hardware stores and haberdashers. At present there are some fifty establishments included in a catalogue. A measure for saving them - the best solution apparently - is to promote them in brochure that will be available to tourists and to residents.
Heritage
Assistance for Palma's traditional establishments
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The Palma council's idea producing a brochure for tourists is stupid. Those lovely old shops will disappear anyway, just like the old corner shops in the UK did. Look how UK's high streets have very few independent shops nowadays. They cannot compete on price. And how many tourists in Palma will go to the hat, or umbrella shop, or the haberdashery shop for a roll of material?? The world unfortunately for some shops has moved on. Answer is simple. Reduce their rates in the form of a preservation subsidy to give them some hope.
Unfortunately we will loose them all. As long as Councils continue to allow out of town shopping centres, like the new FAN. They draw shoppers out of the City/town centres causing them to decay. Very sad.
It’s about time that the Mallorcangovernment Government should take notice of All the local long established businesses and these should be cherished as National Treasures. This year 2017 lots of historical family businesses have closed their shops in Palma it’s so sad that these historic family businesses have disappeared throughout the island. Many tourists as well as Mallorquicans miss these establishments. Once gone they don’t return!
To have the same shop in a family for well over three hundred years is something to be really proud of and it must be one of the few shops anywhere in the world that can make such a claim,long may it stay in the ownership of this family.