£7bn was spent online last year, up by £3bn on the previous year in the UK. To be honest I do fear the worst for retail businesses in say 10 or 20 years time. Any I'm guessing quite a lot of people in and around most large cities in the country feel the same. Maybe I'm just getting lazy or just trying to maximize my spare time, but venturing into CC is not my idea of fun any more. Parking in the CC is also quite expensive, especially at the Bull Ring it's also quite difficult to get to by car. I do most of my shopping online, a) because its more convenient and b) its cheaper by and large. I don't really bother with the city centre these days. stopping the streets being covered with litter and flyers fro a start! i do believe infact we are the 3rd best location in the country for a shopping destination?!?!?!Īll birmingham need to do is get its rents lower (which should be happening soon) and make the city centre a bit more nice. no, we dont want a chav t-shirt for £2!!!!īirminghams shopping ain bad. all they do is use the shops to stack em high and sell em cheap. the ones that dont even bother to redo the inside of the shops. The only bugger that gets me though, and this only seems to happen in birmingham is these short-term lease shops. I think with the introduction of artineay galleries however, and the steady expansion of the city centre, this HAS to give soon and hopefully the rents wil drop forcing land lords to lower rents. so yes, all the brand names are all still in the city, we aint lost anything (like here in newcastle which doesnt have a GAP, Zara, Woolworths etc, they have just moved around but the lets and rent on their old prices have stayed the same. However, no-one factprs into the equation that land/property prices are still increasing.
many assumed that the 160 stores created through the bullring will create a focus in that area of town, decrease land prices and then the rents will go down thus attracting independants. I think the factor to point out he is to extent the bull ring has had. Retail always bounces back in time in large cities such as Birmingham. I wont repeat again.īel Ludovic, I would not worry. I have proven this before on these forums using personal experience. A few make more money than shops at the Bull Ring. Tell you something, I went to the Jewelry Quarter yesterday, the area was buzzing and the shops were way more packed than the jewelry shops at the Bull Ring. Martineau Galleries will move this cycle to Dale End and Corporation Street again. It's just a cycle that keeps on going and going. Pavilions had a pull at one time, but it didn't sustain. The Bull Ring has made an effect, Corporation Street had the same effect 10 years ago and the Bull Ring was empty, 30 years ago the old Bull Ring had a similar effect. House of Fraiser needs updating before Lewis' opens. Yes, Martineau Galleries will attract people away from the Bull Ring. A lot of shops at the Bull Ring have closed also, it's just so desirable the lets get rented quick.īefore the Bull Ring opened, you could not move through Big Top (where entrance to BHS and W.H.
Bank of England have made it very hard for retail, interest is wrong, too many people owe money for credit and mortgages. This is the same all over the country with retail though. I counted 14 empty lets at Martineau Place. This hasn't happened - not even one bit.Īnd yet, more retail space is planned - in the form of Martineau Galleries - when it manifestly isn't needed!
So what the cluck is going on? The theory was that landlords would have to lower rents across the rest of the city core once the Bull Ring was opened, and that independents would fill the newly-vacated units. I didn't even venture to the The Mailbox, but I dread to think how busy (i.e.
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Shops on Corporation Street that ought to be full of people on a Saturday afternoon, such as House of Fraser and Urban Outfitters, were quiet. Great Western Arcade is, as always, only half-let and forlorn as usual. Even in the Bull Ring itself, the former Nike store remains unlet and there are other vacant units in the mall. And yet Martineau Place, Bull Street, Corporation Street - even the bit of New Street by the Bull Ring (Mexx didn't last long) all appear to be suffering. I went back to Brum yesterday and found the city centre in a sorry state, with vacant units absolutely everywhere - three and a half years after the Bull Ring opened.Įveryone expected the Bull Ring effect, but things were supposed to have 'settled down' by now.
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