Nov 13, 2024 Regional cities are growing as media hubs, but not at London’s expense By Anna McDowell UK media organisations are becoming increasingly decentralised and there is a continuing trend for such companies to move away from...
Nov 22, 2022 Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace, a new American leisure business opens in London By Anna McDowell American brands have been taking occupation in London and the regions in recent years. New York coffee brand Blank Street Coffee opened...
Nov 14, 2022 Pivoting retail to leisure and social By Roger Thornton Mark Harvey, at RivingtonHark, wrote an interesting piece on repositioning retail, or as he terms it, “pivoting” retail to new uses. Mark...
Mar 29, 2021 Re-cycling city centres By Tom Mills As a reinvigorated cyclist, the introduction and rejigging of cycle lanes and pedestrianised areas has been a welcome change over the...
Mar 19, 2021 A great example of repurposing retail space in action... By Anastasia Klein The University of Gloucestershire has acquired the vacant Debenhams store in Gloucester and has plans to transform the space into lecture...
Mar 11, 2021 A great example of planning repurposing of excess retail space By Anastasia Klein Marks and Spencer have announced plans to repurpose their Marble Arch store, redeveloping it as a smaller retail space, with offices...
Mar 25, 2020 ULI Reshaping Retail Report By Anastasia Klein ULI has today issued a Reshaping Retail report, to which I am proud to have contributed my views and experiences. Whilst the COVID-19...
Jan 08, 2020 From 'Action Factory' to 'Locksbrook Campus': making use of empty buildings By Michael Craik Given the continued demise of the retail high street this article detailing the change of use of an existing grade II listed building...
Jun 17, 2019 Maples Teesdale's Repurposing Retail breakfast seminar on Thursday 27 June By Anastasia Klein Less than two weeks to go until I moderate the panel discussion at Maples Teesdale’s Repurposing Retail seminar with a fantastic line up...
May 23, 2019 Retail investment - repositioning, regeneration and placemaking By Charles Elgood We are hosting a Repositioning Retail seminar on Thursday 27 June, with a presentation on town centre regeneration and future placemaking...