The retail landscape has been transformed beyond recognition over the past few years by factors including changing consumer behaviour, the rise of online retail and the rightsizing of physical retail on high streets up and down the country. The retail locations that have shown greater resilience are those that have evolved into community-focused retail, leisure and service destinations to deliver true social impact.
At UKREiiF in Leeds last month, BE News hosted a roundtable discussion, sponsored by Workman, titled ‘The social value of retail’. During this important debate, senior industry and local authority figures discussed how developers, investors and retailers are putting retail at the heart of vibrant, mixed- use communities, assessing the potential for collaboration with community organisations and looking at the retail destinations that have successfully integrated social responsibility into their operations to the benefit of their local communities. Click here to read the write-up.
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