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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
It might help to redress the problem if the council and the owners of the Arndale Centre reduced their rents. Surely it is hardly good business to make rents so high that you end up with loads of empty units. Does it not make more sense to accept smaller rent and have the units occupied than having them empty making nothing? Or have a missed the point here? Would seem to me that my suggestion is the right way to go but then again I'm not in business.
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Spokespeople for the Arndale have hinted that they aren't keen on investing much in Accrington, since Tesco's planning application was approved, and which they vehemently opposed, along with the Hyndburn Chamber of Trade.
Still, with the half million quid bung from Tesco, at least the flower towers will be well stocked, and look pretty for a few years, whilst the tumble weed blows past the ever expanding stock of empty shops.