once a busy vibrant full of lifes characters shopping area that was a joy to shop in i am afraid the city is rapidly turning into a ghost town..boring as well as everywhere looks the same...it really started when the new metro lines were being laid...many shops along the routes closed...my thoughts are that the plan is to turn the centre into more of a social place for eating and drinking geared up for the young.. and to build many more high rise buildings that will most likely lie empty for years...soon the little outdoor market and the indoor market will go marking the end of era leaving the elderly knowhere to shop apart from places where they have to try and negotiate lifts and massive escalators just my opinion but there again i am an old brummie who remembers how it was back in the day.. always said i am not against change it has to happen but it seems that the citys planners have given no thought to the eldery and disabled people of this city...only time will tell
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lyn