An enjoyable and insightful visit to Grimsby including sitting in on the latest Town Centre Regeneration Event by the local 2025 Group.
Great to get an update on the various projects and initiatives that are giving the town a genuine sense of momentum…
A transformative, cinema-led leisure and new market scheme;
The #highstreet streetscene improvement project;
Redevelopment of the derelict St James House building as a new multi-functional business hub;
Bringing an NHS community diagnostic centre with potential for 146,000 additional tests per year to the heart of the town’s shopping offer;
The incoming Horizon Youth activity complex for young people.
For our part, supporting the ‘place partnership’ to work together on getting the remaining vacant units, especially on and around its ‘high street’ back in play – maybe short term during the development and then beyond that – is hugely helped by being part of a bigger story…
…and conversations about the role arts & crafts, creative, culture, community, history & heritage, leisure and education can play, alongside #retail, #hospitality and services, feel key.
It’s a town centre that’s changing quickly with, for businesses and organisations, brand and independent, an opportunity now to be a part of that, with a variety (but relatively small number) of available units, many in attractive, some of them heritage, buildings to take on…
Looking forward already to seeing how that’s playing out by the time of our next visit.
