It’s a brilliant city centre…
…so enjoyed our time in Bradford for the Association of Town & City Management’s sunny Summer School #SS25Bradford, with place leaders and managers from around the country.
A huge amount happening, more in the pipeline. Awesome heritage buildings, transformative public realm projects delivering an extended pedestrianised area, fountain-filled Mirror Pool, city park, imaginative landscaping and striking #streetart, a new market imminent, empty units re-purposing, office space additions and the inspirational Bradford Live story (which we’ll return to in a future post) and more besides.
What did I forget…?
It’s so valuable at these #placemaking events to have time allocated to walk-see and hear something of the back story from those involved.
I feel like we were lucky to be there at this snapshot in time but also am really keen to stop by again sometime to see how the almost ready to go initiatives progress and how city centre living, upper floors focus, adjusts to the #retail and #hospitality mix, maybe including ‘additional’ uses on our list that runs from arts & crafts, creative and culture to health & wellbeing, become a bigger part of that story.
Thank you Bradford…!
