Comments on: Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead A Site About Everything and Nothing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-17121 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:43:14 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-17121 Following on with the demise of the High Street national statistics state that Grimsby has the 5th highest number of empty shops in the country - although this is the whole of the town not just the Freshney Place Shopping Centre <b>24% of shops are now vacant a total of 547 buildings unwanted by business</b> It's hard to see what will ever realistically reverse this dreadful situation - one which is echoed throughout the country it has to be said Rod Following on with the demise of the High Street national statistics state that Grimsby has the 5th highest number of empty shops in the country - although this is the whole of the town not just the Freshney Place Shopping Centre

24% of shops are now vacant a total of 547 buildings unwanted by business

It’s hard to see what will ever realistically reverse this dreadful situation - one which is echoed throughout the country it has to be said
Rod

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8961 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:56:38 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8961 Update for James, you said . . . <i>rod i live in grimsby and i have to say that you will have to re-check around freshney place as there are only a few shops which are un-opened</i> I have had a quick count up today and there are in fact <b>17 shops out of use !</b> All actually inside Freshney Place itself. Cheers Rod Update for James,
you said . . .
rod i live in grimsby and i have to say that you will have to re-check around freshney place as there are only a few shops which are un-opened

I have had a quick count up today and there are in fact 17 shops out of use ! All actually inside Freshney Place itself.
Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8920 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:07:55 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8920 James thanks for the comment and welcome to the site. With respect, there are now even more shut than when I wrote this article ! Bay Trading is about to go which will leave and entire corner vacant where Zavvi, Bay and the Original shoe company was ! The owners of Fresheny place must be down something like £1million a year I would estimate. I agree there's plenty of people about on a Saturday but have a look at how many of them have carrier bags ! It's the same durng the week - pensioners going out for a coffee. HMV is busier now, as you'd expect seeing that Virgin-Zavvi has gone as has Woolworths I presume as more shops have shut it has been a financial relief for some other shops thanks to less choice. Cheers Rod James
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site.
With respect, there are now even more shut than when I wrote this article !
Bay Trading is about to go which will leave and entire corner vacant where Zavvi, Bay and the Original shoe company was !

The owners of Fresheny place must be down something like £1million a year I would estimate.
I agree there’s plenty of people about on a Saturday but have a look at how many of them have carrier bags !

It’s the same durng the week - pensioners going out for a coffee.

HMV is busier now, as you’d expect seeing that Virgin-Zavvi has gone as has Woolworths
I presume as more shops have shut it has been a financial relief for some other shops thanks to less choice.

Cheers
Rod

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: james http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8919 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:16:09 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-8919 rod i live in grimsby and i have to say that you will have to re-check around freshney place as there are only a few shops which are un-opened and if you where to walk around on a saturday the shops are thriving with people and it is mostly hard to find space to walk around! rod i live in grimsby and i have to say that you will have to re-check around freshney place as there are only a few shops which are un-opened and if you where to walk around on a saturday the shops are thriving with people and it is mostly hard to find space to walk around!

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7831 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:03:22 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7831 Hi Dave thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - hope you'll return. The situation there appears to be worsening although I note the appear to have filled at least one shop with a temporary sports shop for Christmas presumably. The loss of revenue must be considerable and with the so-called credit crunch one must presume it is more likely that further shops will close rather than new ones open. All the best Rod Hi Dave
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - hope you’ll return.
The situation there appears to be worsening although I note the appear to have filled at least one shop with a temporary sports shop for Christmas presumably.

The loss of revenue must be considerable and with the so-called credit crunch one must presume it is more likely that further shops will close rather than new ones open.

All the best
Rod

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Dave http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7827 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:14:36 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7827 Just a quick note on this, Freshney place are notorious for charging high rents, and consequentially only offer short-term leases on some shops. They find it hard to get new shops into units because of this, and therefore it always looks like ghost town. Burger King actually shut down because it was owned by a franchise based in Yorkshire, A Nationwide company with units all over, but due to bad management went into administration in April 07. When it was bought in August, the new owners decided the two freshney place units (Burger King and Fresh) weren't financially viable. Burger King mainly because it took nearly two years for freshney place to get a tenant in the old Index unit, creating a lack of business and freshney place not reducing the rent. Freshney Place's Owners are to be honest just crap, they charge a huge amount of rent for a crap service, repairs to the centre hardly get done, the security staff is a joke, but as the only shopping centre in the town, certain companies will try to get into it because it is the only option. and yeah the floor is crap. Just a quick note on this, Freshney place are notorious for charging high rents, and consequentially only offer short-term leases on some shops. They find it hard to get new shops into units because of this, and therefore it always looks like ghost town.
Burger King actually shut down because it was owned by a franchise based in Yorkshire, A Nationwide company with units all over, but due to bad management went into administration in April 07. When it was bought in August, the new owners decided the two freshney place units (Burger King and Fresh) weren’t financially viable. Burger King mainly because it took nearly two years for freshney place to get a tenant in the old Index unit, creating a lack of business and freshney place not reducing the rent.

Freshney Place’s Owners are to be honest just crap, they charge a huge amount of rent for a crap service, repairs to the centre hardly get done, the security staff is a joke, but as the only shopping centre in the town, certain companies will try to get into it because it is the only option.

and yeah the floor is crap.

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7420 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:57:51 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-7420 An update a year on Yet more vacant shops and a few recent casulties. Savers have pulled out and the shop remains empty. Anecdotal information from the staff stating the lease was due for renewal and the cost made it unviable even though the business itself was sound ! Next time I'm there I'll count them all and report back. PS: the floor is still a nightmare ! An update a year on
Yet more vacant shops and a few recent casulties.
Savers have pulled out and the shop remains empty.
Anecdotal information from the staff stating the lease was due for renewal and the cost made it unviable even though the business itself was sound !

Next time I’m there I’ll count them all and report back.
PS: the floor is still a nightmare !

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4956 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:11:06 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4956 LB tell me about the floor ! You cannot wear leather soled shoes ! Internet sales brings an interesting dimension. It does not have to be a huge surge to put shops out of business. A shop could easily be surviving on a profit level of 5% of turnover. That being so, 5% drop in sales to the internet doesn't seem much on the face of it but is enogh to put them out of business RC LB
tell me about the floor !
You cannot wear leather soled shoes !

Internet sales brings an interesting dimension. It does not have to be a huge surge to put shops out of business. A shop could easily be surviving on a profit level of 5% of turnover.
That being so, 5% drop in sales to the internet doesn’t seem much on the face of it but is enogh to put them out of business

RC

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Jordan http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4955 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:08:40 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4955 The problem is the unemployment. If a place lacks the industry it just breeds poverty. I visited Grimsby a long time ago and I was shocked at the amount of poverty there was. There just seemed to be a lot of over-weight, scruffy people with children by the score. It’s not a town that you really think ‘let’s go there for a day out’ The Great in Grimsby has long since been dropped; the once thriving fish industry is no longer. As for shops anywhere, if people have money then shops do well, the closure of shops and the re-opening of £ shops and discount shops, are all that poverty towns can accommodate. The problem is the unemployment. If a place lacks the industry it just breeds poverty.

I visited Grimsby a long time ago and I was shocked at the amount of poverty there was. There just seemed to be a lot of over-weight, scruffy people with children by the score. It’s not a town that you really think ‘let’s go there for a day out’
The Great in Grimsby has long since been dropped; the once thriving fish industry is no longer.

As for shops anywhere, if people have money then shops do well, the closure of shops and the re-opening of £ shops and discount shops, are all that poverty towns can accommodate.

]]> Comment on Freshney Place Grimsby is it Dead by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4954 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:07:49 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/freshney-place-grimsby-is-it-dead#comment-4954 WoE you mention the local craft shop, a great shop superbly laid out and run by a great lady who is both enthusiastic and hard working. It's great to see shops like that surviving. When rental rates are more realistic different shops can stay open, not sure how many shops in your town would remain open on £72k pa rent though ! From what I understand there is alrteady a thriving 'underground market' there :) Best RC WoE
you mention the local craft shop, a great shop superbly laid out and run by a great lady who is both enthusiastic and hard working.
It’s great to see shops like that surviving.

When rental rates are more realistic different shops can stay open, not sure how many shops in your town would remain open on £72k pa rent though !

From what I understand there is alrteady a thriving ‘underground market’ there :)
Best
RC

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