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escotregen wrote:Maybe the end of a long shabby decline and hope for renewal in the heart of Shawlands?
http://www.urbanrealm.com/news/5983/Shawlands_Arcade_to_be_redeveloped_following_sale.html
escotregen wrote:Really incisive (and heartfelt) points RDR. Especially where you say, '...the problem for Shawlands is, it doesn't know really what it is...' Good few years ago (the early noughties?) the GCC had a stab at classifying a 'hierarchy' of local shopping centres. It was a commendable effort to recognise that many local centres were doomed. The idea was to try and concentrate Council investment and initiatives on the centres that seemed most likely to survive (not sure that 'prosper' even came into it. I'm not sure whatever became of that initiative. Interestingly the same challenge has faced The Scottish Government on the whole town centre scale.
[BTW again, if any mods are reading this I don't get advised of when any replies are posted even though I ticked for it. Apologies if I don't now answer anyone as I haven't always have the time to keep manually re-checking for replies]
escotregen wrote:Well if Shawlands is doing OK it is a true rarity - indeed a remarkable exception. Only today I was at a retail conference where we heard from much respected Prof Sparks of Stirling Business School. The refrain of his presentation was to again confirm the reality that all small retail and all traditional High Streets across the UK are in trouble - and have been for a decade and more.
Add in my observations about the local economy and property and I stand by my judgement that it is a troubled locality.
Also noteworthy is the recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation Foundation think tank report on the hyped 'Northern Power House' in England and devolution to UK cities in general (i.e. City Deal). It demonstrated that in comparative terms Glasgow remains one of the economically poorest performing UK large cities. Maybe there's an argument that Shawlands is looking not so bad because it sits within the city's overall poor predicament and generally pretty low aspirations in the city?
And thanks for asking about the 'not getting notified of replies'. It's odd. I'm getting advised on another discussion but not on this one. I did check my junk but nothing getting directed there.
escotregen wrote:At least that suggests that Shawlands is little different from the UK in general - still dining out on growing debt, and a declining economic base with which to create real new material wealth?
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