Headed back shortly after our latest insightful, inspiring visit to the awesome city that is Aberdeen.
🏢 Here to meet with agents, owners, developers, architects and project teams involved in current case studies of re-purposing work on Union Street’s un- and under-used upper floors for our study (of which more in future posts).
Checked in too on the city’s tackling #highstreet vacancy work which first brought us here with #TheVacantShopsAcademy in 2022.
🔐 And struck - as on all our visits - by the way a ‘place partnership’ bringing together key stakeholders to play their part can make such a difference. As we often say, though they do much of the heavy lifting on lettings, “it’s not just an agents-landlord thing”.
Still challenging times. Still much to do, as everyone here emphasises, and we’re updating our ‘audit’ to confirm, but the data being published locally and our observations on this trip show how the number of empty units on the street has fallen significantly, with more positive prospects in the pipeline. As we’ll set out in the study, progress on the upper floors will add to that in a range of ways.
Meantime as ever on visits here, you get to see other examples of the ‘place partnership’ at work…
🎨 In the stunning new #streetart that is part of the latest Nuart Festival;
+ With the Iconic Bricks dinosaurs trail that’s been taking visitors, and especially the crucial-to-the-future younger audiences, into and around the city;
🧹 And closer to the tackling vacancy work itself, how community volunteer effort with technical and practical support where needed is, one by one, making the empty units look the best they can be.
We’ve learned lots, are excited by the possibilities we’ll soon outline on upper floors, and already looking forward to our next trip.
🙏 Thanks Aberdeen…