Community commerce must be core infrastructure, business leader warns

A local business leader has cautioned that community commerce must be treated as core infrastructure, warning that neighborhoods cannot be built on housing and roads alone. In an opinion piece published by Macao Daily News on Monday, Wong Pui Lam, a senior official of the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s Strategy Research Committee, said Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai had called for a government-led, market-driven, and community-engaged urban renewal model. Wong urged authorities to use the ongoing revision of the urban master plan to address the structural imbalance between old districts with inadequate facilities and new districts with lag…