{"id":412346,"date":"2024-08-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=412346"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"MVA-encourages-Garapan-businesses-to-enhance-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/MVA-encourages-Garapan-businesses-to-enhance-area\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA encourages Garapan businesses to enhance area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Garapan Revitalization Project making headway in Saipan\u2019s main tourist district, the Marianas Visitors Authority is inviting area businesses to join its ongoing cleanup efforts in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the reopening of Paseo de Marianas to traffic and new landscaping and parking coming up, it\u2019s a great time for everyone to start taking pride in their little section of our main tourist district so we can spruce up the area,\u201d said MVA Destination Enhancement manager Raquel Aguon. \u201cWhether that be picking up trash, sweeping in front of your businesses, painting storefronts\u2014or for our government partners, handing out citations for littering\u2014it\u2019s time to take pride and give our main tourist district some TLC as the Garapan Revitalization Project enters its next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To lend a hand in the area, the MVA has been providing regular street cleaning early in the morning on key streets in the area since before the pandemic, including along Beach Road from American Memorial Park to Garapan Fishing Base, Coral Tree Avenue in front of Crowne Plaza Resort Saipan, Micro Beach Road from Coral Tree Avenue to the fire substation, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, street cleaning is not a primary function of the MVA, but it is something we have been helping with for several years, because Garapan has needed it,\u201d said Aguon. \u201cWith every business, agencies, and individual taking pride and doing their part, it would really help liven up the district, which is what we all agree our destination really needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Violations of the Commonwealth anti-litter law should be to reported to the Bureau of Environmental &amp; Coastal Quality. <em><strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/3ebf74eaf143034bc66d9aee0ff04d05.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>LJ\u2019s Lawncare Service\u2019s Jeffrey David, left, and Dennis Reyes take a breather from cleaning major streets in Garapan on Aug. 7, 2024, as part of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s ongoing contribution to enhance the main tourist district. The MVA is encouraging area businesses to clean up their adjacent areas as the Garapan Revitalization Project enters its next phase.<\/p>\n<p>-MVA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/962982d289235e5babdf2b4afe28ae0c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>LJ\u2019s Lawncare Service\u2019s Dennis Reyes, left, and Jeffrey David help spruce up Beach Road in Garapan, Saipan, on Aug. 14, 2024. The Marianas Visitors Authority\u2014who contracts the company\u2014is encouraging area tenants to help revitalize the area by cleaning and sprucing up the areas in front of their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>-MVA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Garapan Revitalization Project making headway in Saipan\u2019s main tourist district, the Marianas Visitors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}