The Esquiline will be one of the districts affected by the next works for the redevelopment and decoration of the city of Rome.
The Municipality of Rome has presented some proposals that incorporate the needs of the associations in the area surrounding Monti and Piazza Vittorio.
The set of works envisaged also favors the revaluation of properties with prestigious characteristics, currently penalized by a context of poor care of the urban fabric.
The restyling of Piazza Vittorio, which started from the remodeling of the gardens in recent days, provides for the intervention on the arcades and the night lighting, works that should end in the autumn. The total cost of the works, which include the redevelopment of the former Apollo cinema and the renovation of roads and sidewalks, is two million euros.
“I have Via Merulana in mind as a boulevard,” said the commissioner for public works Maurizio Pucci. «It is necessary to promote quality trade. We can encourage some adjustments of commercial activities, from wholesale warehouses to retail stores, “he added.
Flowers, benches, ashtrays and bike racks. All financed by merchants. “So via Merulana will be reborn. With a participatory project, we will transform the most important street of the Esquiline into a boulevard”, explains the councilor. The need is to recover a safe and livable Piazza Vittorio: “From this week the meetings will start for a participated project in which the commercial fabric must also be rethought”.
Not only department stores, therefore, but “it will also try to revive food and wine, reviving the arcades with restaurants”, hopes Pucci.
Meanwhile, the redevelopment plan in via Merulana is also well advanced. “We started working on it last spring”, explains the Councilor for Commerce of the Municipality, Marta Leonori, “we just have to quantify the tax relief for those who participate”. The merchants’ association will meet Pucci on Thursday. “We are over a hundred – explains the president, Simone Braghetta – each finances the expenses according to the square footage of the occupation of public land and the hope is that they will discount part of the tax”.
