Is your place on the front foot to make the most of it to drive down your #highstreet vacancy levels and improve the mix of uses…?
It’s the time of year when typically interest in taking on space in our town and city centres picks up.
So…
Do you have a ‘place partnership’ in play to bring together stakeholders and consult businesses and residents about what they’d like to see take on units;
Are its members visiting any vacants you have to see what the barriers to getting them let are, and how each partner can play a role;
Do you have all the empties listed on a single platform and are you promoting them as an opportunity;
Have you sounded out arts & crafts, creative, culture, community, history & heritage, leisure, education, health and health & wellbeing organisations to see if they could take space alongside #retail, #hospitality and services;
Is there a place-wide pop up shop or ‘meanwhile… use’ project ready to make a start on opening up the trickier ones;
Do you have all the buildings and streetscene looking the best they can be…?
Or are you thinking tackling vacancy is “just an agents-landlords thing” and trusting to that.
Would love to hear from towns and city centres who’d like to take up the positive, proactive approach. We know it works.
