Do you think the Trafford centre will last 20 more years?

[Stockton Heath Blue]

it was designed on a greco-roman theme...so yeah it looks a bit dated. (never been)

Maybe I should have said tired ;-)

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Thought this was quite a good idea. The Trafford Centre has already got a big entertainment area so could definitely see that expanding to replace the departing shops.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57934829.amp

 

[Ribble73]

I thought from the start it was designed as a hideous Temple to Consumerism and my god does it ever fulfil that

 

[yerwot?]

An empty field on a road that served no-one, all the factories having shut down. Countless decent jobs gone. The T.C. was , and is, the only place to reverse the decline. It also broke the monopoly of the city centre.
The future is pretty unknowable, hardly worth a guess. Should it close, much will be the jubilation of it's enemies on BM, even though they never go there ???

 

[ninjamonkey]

Not in its current state. I think I've been twice in the last decade and both were for specific reasons with other people where it was an in and out job. They've already been transitioning towards this for a while now but they'll be forced into turning it from a shopping centre into an entertainment centre. You might get a handful of shops that synergies with that dynamic but the majority of the space will be experiences, entertainment and eating out. People go out to city centres and places like this do things now not buy things.

 

[117 M34]

Not in its current state. I think I've been twice in the last decade and both were for specific reasons with other people where it was an in and out job. They've already been transitioning towards this for a while now but they'll be forced into turning it from a shopping centre into an entertainment centre. You might get a handful of shops that synergies with that dynamic but the majority of the space will be experiences, entertainment and eating out. People go out to city centres and places like this do things now not buy things.

This is what I said a few weeks back. I think the lower floor will be shops but a change of demographic to focusing on middle to higher end places. The top floor will become entertainment, bars and restaurants.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Thought this was quite a good idea. The Trafford Centre has already got a big entertainment area so could definitely see that expanding to replace the departing shops.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57934829.amp

Yup, agreed

The TC will still be around in some capacity, mainly offering restaurants and cinema still whilst retail will erode further.