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How not to waste £675m and how best to create better towns and High Streets

As you will be aware our towns are facing some of the greatest challenges in terms of their form and function for the 21st Century. These challenges come in many forms be they economic such as empty shops or taxation, social as seen in the rise in rough sleeping or…

Matthew Hopkinson30th January 2019

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Is the East is evolving faster than the West – the story of Alibaba!

On 1st November I was fortunate to be attend the Alibaba Cloud launch for the UK in London. Essentially this was the 'switching on' of two data centres near Woking that create a significant extension to the Alibaba Cloud Services platform as the picture below illustrates. But it was not…

Matthew Hopkinson4th November 2018

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Why are Blackrock’s results are a warning to the real estate investment sector?

The recent headlines in the financial press regarding the sharp fall in the value of Blackrock shares (Blackrock: a vast money machine splutters – FT 19/10/2018) may seem like distant thunder to many in the UK commercial real estate sector but the implications for the sector could be very real…

Matthew Richardson29th October 2018

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Why Westminster can’t save the UK high street

Guest blog by Bill Grimsey. First appeared in Daily Telegraph on 4th July 2018 when #GrimseyReview2 was launched at the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham, UK. Matthew Hopkinson was a co-author. The review is available to download from https://www.didobi.com/the-grimsey-review/ Big levers in Whitehall can’t stop the retail bloodbath, argues…

Matthew Hopkinson4th July 2018

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Data in action that is creating a vibrant Belgian town

In 2013 I was involved in co-authoring The Grimsey Review - An alternative future for our high streets. Again in 2018 we are doing #GrimseyReview2 which will look at the first review 5 years on and will take a more comprehensive and case study approach to what is a major…

Matthew Hopkinson17th May 2018

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Why dramatic changes in data and technology need radical changes from business leaders

This week I was privileged to to an after dinner speech to a group of senior property professionals. This is what I told them! "Good evening and thank you for your kind introduction. It is a pleasure to be amongst so many surveyors having started my commercial life twenty years…

Matthew Hopkinson2nd February 2018

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First LDC/CDCRC Thought Leadership event takes place at University of Oxford today

Today LDC in partnership with its academic partners, the leading universities in the UK involved in retail 'knowledge' will gather at Said Business School Oxford. It is kindly sponsored by the Consumer Data Research Centre (ESRC funded) and being hosted by the Oxford Institute of Retail Management. In addition to…

Matthew Hopkinson5th May 2015

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How not to waste £675m and how best to create better towns and High Streets

Is the East is evolving faster than the West – the story of Alibaba!

Why are Blackrock’s results are a warning to the real estate investment sector?

Why Westminster can’t save the UK high street

Data in action that is creating a vibrant Belgian town

Why dramatic changes in data and technology need radical changes from business leaders

First LDC/CDCRC Thought Leadership event takes place at University of Oxford today

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