Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

One opened in Station recently. Guess that does better considering it’s location.

 

What make of car was that ?

 

Skoda Fellatio.



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

The article also says they are looking for an alternative site the old M & S building on Whitefriargate a better option?
The Hammonds building would be better used as office space.

 

Pretty much everything they could get wrong they did get wrong.

I wonder whether it was the building owners or the market company who stumped up the cash for the refurb, because it won’t have been cheap,

 

Is it feasible for someone else with more nous to take it on? Seems a shame for such a prominent central building to just end up another call centre after all the hype and the refurb.

 

Surely with all the subscriptions Dutch has been pm’ing us all for for the last 12 years
Hull city not606 could take it over ?

 

The biggest shame is it's given everyone who slags Hull off a reason to say I told you so when the full story is it was badly run and could have been successful if managed better. Keep the faith.

 

I don’t see why not. I suppose it depends on what the owners see as more profitable/less hassle.

I couldn’t agree with this more. This could have been so exciting and I still believe it can. There’s a place in Hull for this, just not in the way it was done.

 

You reading the HDM now?

 

Completely agree. I've seen a lot of people saying high end stuff can never work in Hull but there's loads of nice places over at the marina/fruit market side of town that do really well.

 

And that to my mind is the issue - wrong place.
Sorry, but as said before, the City centre has unfortunately become a **** hole. The rate it's gone down hill, even since 2017 CoC, is alarming (at least to those that don't have 'boiled frog' syndrome).
Of course, regeneration has to start somewhere, but that (HoH) was never going to be the catalyst. Maybe, just maybe, the Albion Street / BHS regeneration might be a catalyst .... it would be nice to think so, but personally I doubt it, I suspect the ship has (or 3 ships have) long since sailed.

 

Saw a video earlier of a lady talking about Hanley, in Stoke, it was one of the busiest areas only a few years ago, now virtually all shut down, so busy the cops shut the roads on a weekend, seems like not just Hull suffering, but a country wide problem

 

Sadly true.

 

True it's grinding negativity .
They live to see things fail .

 

Some do, many don't, but a canny businessman would know the market and pitch the product accordingly.

Those running HoH made a pigs ear of it from so many different aspects.