How is your town or city centre faring so far in the new #highstreet lettings season.
What #retail, #hospitality or services businesses or organisations have taken on empty units…
…and importantly are you driving it as a place, working together, or do you see tackling vacancy as just “an agent-landlord thing.”
It feels an important question. Not just so that you can start to see empty unit numbers reducing but because residents and existing businesses will be keen to see the mix of use types you have improving too.
It’s why we’re so keen to see every town or city centre that has vacancy as a challenge, set up a ‘place partnership’ with agents, landlords, businesses, community, cultural organisations, councils, chamber and BID where you have one working together on this…
…identifying what’s missing, what empty units you have, what’s stopping them letting and what they could be, a
then going out, together, to recruit what you need.
That way – as others have – you can aim to half your vacancy rate in 18 months. Some places will go further, faster.
So how is your place doing so far in 2025…? It’d be great to hear what’s new and in the pipeline…
