“Better weather puts spring in high street footfall,” declared the British Retail Consortium (BRC) this morning.
You can understand the trade body’s desire to send out an upbeat message given the unrelenting gloom that has surrounded the sector over the last few years.
A 1.4% increase in shopper footfall in March after had fallen in all but two of the previous 22 months would suggest that it had good grounds for doing so.
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Including:
Mitsubishi Estates and Co-Re appoint Savills to help lease the development’s office space
Decision deferred on former National Institute of Agricultural Botany revamp
Developer has taken 10 storeys off proposals since first filing
Colliers appointed to lease 50,000 sq ft of office space in the Salford Quays development
