Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Better a taxi office than another empty shop.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Going by your profile photo Lewis this must be a stressful time of year for you, hopefully if the worst comes to the worst someone will clear up behind you.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,111
Yup, but the serious question is 'Is this because of the council or in spite of the council?'.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
New Look closed their outlet in Deal but kept the one in Dover open, horses for courses I suppose.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
They are both closing but I understand they already had someone waiting to move into the Deal unit so brought it forward.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The old Santander Bank unit next to Taylor's meats had people working inside this morning, I seem to remember it was going to be an amusement arcade.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
The Salutation?
(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,932
I used the salutation
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
not people did kieth, went there once, ended up just me and the barman
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,258
Keith Sansum1 wrote:I used the salutation
The old or the new?
Was it in the 60's when they knocked down to widen the road.
Arte et Marte
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,932
Would have been late 60 s
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Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
- Posts: 285
I believe that Clinton Cards is closing
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Closing on Christmas Eve apparently.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I don't know what B & M stores are up to but we were told that they would be up and running by Christmas. No work has gone on in the former M & S unit so no chance of that happening.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
still taking out asbestos howard, workmen are in there at 0700 every morning. asbestos lagging is the problem.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I note that consrution signs have now appeard on the old marks & spencers gate,with a full car park of work vans.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,111
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,111
https://screenshots.firefox.com/G8xnBmvEo5AoIsnu/www.dropbox.com
Interestingly it's shopping centres NOT town centres which are taking a hammering on vacancies.
Right now a quarter of them are insolvent and a large number of pension funds holding distressed assets. What a time for a council to see investment in comercial property on borrowed money to be 'the way forward'!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,111
Looks like Peacocks in Folkestone is on the way out?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/peacocks-store-holds-closing-down-sale-194756/
Meanwhile Macarthur Glen (The outlet place at Ashford which DDC turned down years ago being built at Whitfield as it might have an effect on High Street shops!!!! ) continues to expand
https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/mcarthurglen-to-invest-1-billion-euros-in-outlets/2018111439950"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
