By Norris Jones
Gulf Region Central District
BAGHDAD — One of the top priorities for the mayor of Mahmudiyah is rebuilding his city’s downtown market. “It’s the heart of our community,” Muayid Fadhil said.
“We are going to build a new market as a memorial to those innocent men, women and children who have been killed there,” Fadhil said. “It will tell the insurgents we will never give up, they cannot stop us.”
That market has been the target of numerous insurgent attacks in the past year. Currently, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing a $245,372 project to construct new market stalls with overhead cover, and renovating storefronts along the street that have been damaged by bomb blasts and small arms fire. That work includes new doors, windows, stucco and paint, as well as new gates at each entrance of the market.
About 100,000 residents in the Mahmudiyah area (located 20 miles south of Baghdad) utilize the market and local farmers bring in their produce and meat for local consumption. It’s a main economic engine of the community “and our residents really appreciate the improvements that are underway,” the mayor noted.
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