Why Markets are so important for our towns and high streets
Traditional retailing in town centres has been in decline for over 20 years and this is reflected by an increase in empty shops, which in some areas might be as high as one in thre
Understanding place catchments and the dynamics of people’s mobility to help drive winning place strategies
In this blog from Chris Duley, Didobi Associate and Founder of Adept Insight, discusses the varied mobility behaviours (pre- and post-Covid) and how new high volume, high frequency
Building Back Better with food and drink: a roadmap for town centres and high streets
In this blog from Mallika Basu, Didobi Associate and Founder of Basu Consulting, she discusses why there’s no better time than now to whet our appetite about how food and drink c
Why we must reflect, re-energise and re-purpose as a society to ensure that the Coronavirus cloud has a silver lining.
Before the news of Covid19 came out of Wuhan, China we had started a new decade full of hope and varying degrees of optimism. The pace of change of the previous decade had been fas
Repurposing UK Department Stores
In January 2020 Quadrant and Eccleston Capital launched a new investment vehicle to repurpose redundant department stores. Matthew Hopkinson of Didobi was commissioned to write a t
Why we must understand the causes of issues on our high streets before addressing the effects.
Last week the BBC’s investigative journalism programme, Panorama, focussed on the UK High Street. ‘How to save the high street’ visited a number of towns including Stoc