Overview

• City officials and the Consejo Empresario de Mendoza held a midterm workshop at the Hotel Diplomatic to assess nine months of joint work under a late-2024 agreement.
• The municipality reports eliminating 45 taxes in January and a further 57 rates in July that affected productive activity, construction and real estate.
• Workstreams presented include a Manual of Good Practices, an indicators dashboard, deep simplification of permits for commerce and private works, and a vademécum of municipal rates.
• Mayor Ulpiano Suárez said the current phase will wrap in the coming months as the team advances proposed updates to the Land Use Law to allow more neighborhood shops in former residential-only areas.
• The program aims to raise Mendoza City’s competitiveness so investors choose it over larger markets such as Córdoba or Buenos Aires.