This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Abdul Latif Baraka
The city of Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, attends deep urban and commercial transformations, the most important of which is the plan of the municipal council to resume and locate its most famous historic markets. The trace of Galva, the path of Omar and the markets of Sidi Othman, the economic and social addresses which constitute the backbone of the movement of trade and consumption in the city. Today it finds itself in front of a crossroads between urban rehabilitation and the danger of social and economic exclusion of thousands of professionals and customers.
– The Galva Trail: a reform raises questions about fate
The Darb Ghaffal market is more than a simple commercial space, because it is a cultural and commercial benchmark which reflects the dynamism of Oval society. Do the declarations of the mayor Nabila Ermeli concerning the design of a new preparation for this market on land in property of properties opened the door to several questions: will the preparation process take into account the nature of the popular market, or do real estate interest impose its logic to the detriment of commercial traditions? The collective council seeks to have real estate in order to “evaluate it”, a sentence which carries mysterious dimensions between urban modernization and the transformation of the market into a sophisticated commercial space which does not reflect its popular identity of origin.
Omar Trail: Transfer logistics or economical emptying?
As for the DARB Omar market, the beating heart of wholesale trade in Morocco, it faces a restructuring plan based on the separation of storage, by transferring stores to a debt and by converting stores into “exhibitions”. This step, despite its face in terms of reducing pressure on the city center and improving mobility (in particular with the passage of the tram), raises real concerns concerning the dismantling of the local commercial fabric and the complexity of the distribution channels for merchants and consumers.
– Sidi Othman: between “Casablanca Tech Valley” and “Marshi Kreu”
The greatest controversy rages in Sidi Othman, where the signs of deportation of the main wholesale markets began, in particular the fish market and the municipal and “marshi crew” massacres, to the outskirts of Casablanca, in particular the Al-Sawalm area. The objective is to evacuate the field before the “Casablanca Tech Valley” project, that the marketing authorities as a huge future project to transform the city into a technological post. But what is considered to be a leap towards modernity by civil servants, professionals and traders consider a direct threat to their means of subsistence and their professional existence, in the absence of real guarantees to integrate them into the new formula of these spaces.
– a risky change
From a strategic point of view, no one denies the importance of rehabilitating the main commercial spaces in Casablanca, whether in terms of organization, security or monitoring of urban and technological transformation. But the danger lies in the absence of real involvement of professionals and merchants in the formulation of these transformations, which threatens to convert the necessary reforms into economic and social shock which affect the most fragile groups, and the city is free from its popular commercial spirit.
The economic capital “Casablanca” remains towards a deep urban and commercial change, but the way in which this transformation is managed will be decisive in determining whether the city will succeed in creating a balance between the modernization and the preservation of its rooted social and commercial fabric, or that it will fall into the trap of “architectural beauty” to the detriment of identity and the popular economy, it is a race between time, interest, and the result has not yet been decided.
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