Re: 'Big-name retailers' for Town Centre?

cyfrifia Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:22 pm

According to the interesting radio four program that's on at the moment,
'File on four, The Zombie Effect', Rochdale shopping centre might qualify as what they now call in business terms, a 'Zombie Shopping Centre'.

Zombies have been fashionable for quite a while now, with young people getting dressed up as zombies, having zombie walks and zombie days.

Could Rochdale catch the fashion and develop the Zombie Shopping Centre theme, by getting shoppers and shopkeepers to dress up as zombies and promote zombie products? Showings of classic zombie movies, zombie clothes, zombie makeup workshops, zombie music and zombie book and comic shops, with a timely effort, Rochdale could become The zombie centre of the UK and attract national and international zombie visitors.

P.S. Before deciding I must be joking, have a listen to the program, retail and businesses will have to adapt to new realities.

johnb Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:04 pm

So we should stop the waste of money on the new, small centre now.

Guest Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:13 pm

mark_select wrote:It won't be long before a 'save the black box' campaign is started

I am amazed the Observer have not already started it Shocked

Chill37 Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:26 am

Mojo Hill wrote:
It's officially revealed at last: NO retailers have signed up for the 'new' town centre ... six years after the scheme was first put forward.

So why is Cllr Farooq on record as saying he has retailers fighting to open up then?
I would go so far as saying he has told a falsehood.

Unless he can come on here and tell us something that we do not know about but then again considering a Cllr has already asked the same question and has yet to get a reply.

Unbelievable.

Chill37 Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:27 am

johnb wrote:So we should stop the waste of money on the new, small centre now.

Fully agree.

teamplayer2 Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:23 pm

What I fail to understand is why a Councillor said there are retailers wanting to move into the new shopping centre when it was reported there is none at all. So why say it if it is not true? Why is the Councillor or the council failing to reply and why not tell us if they are or not?

I feel as though I do not have any trust in this councillor or the council if they cannot be honest with the voters over the future of who or is not moving into the shopping centres.

Chill37 Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:28 pm

teamplayer2 wrote:What I fail to understand is why a Councillor said there are retailers wanting to move into the new shopping centre when it was reported there is none at all. So why say it if it is not true? Why is the Councillor or the council failing to reply and why not tell us if they are or not?

I feel as though I do not have any trust in this councillor or the council if they cannot be honest with the voters over the future of who or is not moving into the shopping centres.

Well same applies to any promises really made by any Political party. This comment is just the latest dis-honest comment made to us by Cllr when it comes to the regeneration of our Town. All the while we get left further and further behind. I really hope the opening of the River doesnt pan out to be another broken promise to add to the list.

Which up to now reads:

Arts Centre
'Big Names' Shops for our smaller Shopping area.
I will add Drake Street Metrolink Stop as this was promised to us but we lost it due to some creative measurements and our Council rolled over at the first chance.

What next can I add to the list.

johnb Sat Dec 22, 2012 1:57 pm

Worth noting that as well as the Comet and Staples closure, the (ex) Coop in Lord Square is currently in the process of closing it's electrical department..

Will the last person leaving Rochdale please turn out the lights in the atrium of the council offices?

Chill37 Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:41 pm

Oh dear.

What is left exactly in Rochdale?

Hinch Sun Dec 23, 2012 6:06 am

johnb wrote:Worth noting that as well as the Comet and Staples closure, the (ex) Coop in Lord Square is currently in the process of closing it's electrical department..

Will the last person leaving Rochdale please turn out the lights in the atrium of the council offices?

Sorry JohnB, but with two big electrical retailers pulling out, there aren't actually any lights to switch off any more.

johnb Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:25 am

Oh but there are...

If you look along the line of the culvert end river from the de-manned Touchstones project to the new ivory tower where council exec and its hordes will live, you see a light sculpture in the atrium like a beacon of hope to populous.

Incidentally, what is going to happen to the cell phone masts on top of the black box. Surely they will not be demolished to deprive Rochdale of coverage?

Perhaps they are being installed on sky hooks.

Chill37 Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:45 pm

Or on top of the new hideous too-large-for-its-purpose 50 Smith Street.

Atlas Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:07 am

Hinch Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:19 am

According to the news this morning, another 170 High St retailers are about to go to the wall.

Still, I'm sure it won't affect Town Centre East.

johnb Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:32 pm

Apparently there may not be enough office space in the new offices...

Chill37 Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:05 pm

Really?

Why have they let all the ground floor out to the coffee shop ?

johnb Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:11 pm

Trust me - and watch this space as Colin Lambert does a 360 and lambasts the Lib Dems for not making it big enough (while remembering his speeches about the waste of money this oversized white elephant would be).

johnb Mon Dec 24, 2012 6:14 pm

Chill37 wrote:Or on top of the new hideous too-large-for-its-purpose 50 Smith Street.

Is it tall enough to give coverage? How will the phone companies respond to having their leases reneged upon?

Chill37 Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:10 pm

Well it will be one of the tallest buildings in that area once the Black Box is flatten and turned into yet another car park.

Although I wouldnt put it past RMBC to put a mast on top of the Clock Tower considering they already drape banners from the Town Hall.

johnb Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:12 pm

It's not a matter f where the council puts masts, it's where the phone companies have leases tp put them.

Chill37 Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:20 pm

Well it wouldnt surprise me if RMBC allows a lease to be put out on the Town Hall for AN Other phone company to put one up.

johnb Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:08 pm

And the council have got out of the present leases - at WHAT cost?

Old Regulator Mon Dec 31, 2012 12:18 pm

Chill37 wrote:Well it wouldnt surprise me if RMBC allows a lease to be put out on the Town Hall for AN Other phone company to put one up.

be afraid Chill. what will happen when all council offices are out of our Town Hall? link for life? maybe a rest room for defunked elected officials who have turned their backs on our heritage. Rochdale Palace for the populus?

Chill37 Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:14 pm

Thats the point. I am worried at what antics are in store for us in 2013.

Atlas Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:18 am

Going off the last few years. Be very afraid. I would be. Sad

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