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Yet more flats in central Birmingham, more office space, although everybody seems to be working from home and more coffee shops/fast food outlets. That will have everyone flooding into the city centre again. The area is already a shadow of what it once was. The continued loss of department stores such as this one, Debenhams and John Lewis, isn't going to improve the situation. Will Selfridges be next? :(
 
John L said:
Yet more flats in central Birmingham, more office space, although everybody seems to be working from home and more coffee shops/fast food outlets. That will have everyone flooding into the city centre again. The area is already a shadow of what it once was. The continued loss of department stores such as this one, Debenhams and John Lewis, isn't going to improve the situation. Will Selfridges be next? :(
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totally agree with you john..the flats down perry barr are mostly still empty then we will have the ones they indeed to build on the site of the old dudley road hospital problem being people just cant afford to buy or rent them...over kill springs to my mind but as i always say time will tell

lyn
 
Whatever the reason there's no denying shopping habits have changed. Maybe if they continue to build flats/apartments they'll flood the market and prices will come down.

Last time I was in town it looked like they were starting to knock down the Oasis buildings. I can't imagine there'll be many if any shops there when it's build upon the site.
 
John L said:
Yet more flats in central Birmingham, more office space, although everybody seems to be working from home and more coffee shops/fast food outlets. That will have everyone flooding into the city centre again. The area is already a shadow of what it once was. The continued loss of department stores such as this one, Debenhams and John Lewis, isn't going to improve the situation. Will Selfridges be next? :(
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I’m afraid Selfridges wouldn’t be a loss to me. Everything costs a small fortune in there.
To me the only department store that has echoes of the likes of Rackhams is John Lewis in Solihull. And every time I visit there I wonder when that will be for the chop….
 
I am afraid "shops" as we knew them are gone forever....Most of the Bull Ring "Mall" and Grand Central are for me Fancy Dan shops...far too expensive and Niche. Housing in town would be brilliant but only affordable ones i.e. council type not 300 grand Studio Apartments. Maybe some of the town workers wouldn't have to travel and that would sort another problem.
But we all know none of that will ever happen.

p.s. We used to have John Lewis in the Station complex and it too was like Selfridges and failed. People moan about Primark but at least it gets the people through the door.
 
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