| Comment | >If it does, it will leave a giant empty building in an already trashed Argyle Street. What could be done with the building if they do close?
Housing. Even luxury housing of some kind (which the building and massive atrium would probably be suited to). Don't care.
Glasgow needs a much better balance of retail to resident population in the centre. The bottom has fallen out of bricks and mortar retail across the world, not just the UK, not just Glasgow. People prefer visiting out of town shopping malls in their cars. That was a mistake of planning from the 70s to the 2000s, but it happened. With internet sales compounding this already bad situation for inner city retail, we need to completely remodel the centre of Glasgow.
The future for healthy city centres will be a greater mix of leisure and dining/bars, along with residential. Big box retailers are on the way out.
It is of course, ultimately, up to the landlord of the building. Maybe another big retailer will move in. As I say though, I think the equilibrium eventually will lie with it being used as residential, of some form. This might be high end luxury apartments in the long run. |
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