dave the nutter wrote:
Jub Jub wrote:
Birmingham is an interesting study Graham. The new Bullring opening, combined with the flooding of the centre with apartments, has dramatically changed things. Whereas previously people would park all over and shop in the whole city centre, now the majority aim for the Bullring by car, bus or train. So the roads into the Bullring are busier, and shops elsewhere in the centre are losing out. But because there are far more living in the centre a number of these shops are becoming mini-supermarkets.
Wrong, Brum has always suffered from, having more shop spaces than there are high end shops that will pay, the Bullring pulled the better shops out of the pavillions and pallisades shopping centres into the bullring leaving areas populated by the "everything for a pound" type of shop,
How is that wrong? It seems that we are almost saying the same things. The Pallisades was dying long before the Bullring came along. And the same could be said for the Pavilions.
The fact is that far fewer people shop outside of the Bullring any more. So any decent, smaller shops that are a distance away cannot rely on the trade that used to come their way with the nearby, bigger stores like Virgin, to name the first that springs to mind.
And because so many more people are living in the centre now, there are more supermarkets and mini-markets.
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