That Retail Property Guy
Welcome to That Retail Property Guy, the podcast where retail property expert Gary Marshall champions retail tenants and empowers professionals across the industry. With a career spanning decades, a dozen retailers, and millions in recovered losses for leading UK retailers, Gary shares his unparalleled knowledge to help retail tenants protect their rights, navigate leases, and maximise opportunities often overlooked by landlords, estates and accounts teams.
This podcast is your go-to resource for unlocking the mysteries of retail property. Whether you're an experienced professional, a mid-sized chain, or someone just starting in the industry, Gary’s insights will help you build confidence, avoid pitfalls, and thrive in this complex field.
Through practical advice, real-world examples, and interviews with industry leaders, That Retail Property Guy is dedicated to fostering development and knowledge-sharing for the next generation of retail property experts.
Listen weekly and discover how small insights can lead to big wins for retail tenants everywhere. Start your journey to retail property mastery today!
That Retail Property Guy
Save the High Street..? Where, How, and Why?
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Save the High Street? Why? Where? How? What’s your view?
Host Gary Marshall discusses the plight of town centre retail, and considers the popular cry to Save the High Street. He questions whether this is a nostalgic, rose-tinted recollection of bygone days, or a sincere movement to re-take our towns, and build vibrant communities.
He asks whether out of town retail is partly to blame for town centre blight, or are retail parks the new high street where we can gather, meet up, browse, shop? Are town centre shops still needed – and what could be an alternative use?
He questions if any change in use should be tightly controlled, or permitted without restriction, and if tax-payer funded projects are helpful, or wasteful?
Are anti-car measures part of the problem? Does everyone have the right means of access to their local high street?
And what part do we all play, as online-shoppers, in this demise of physical retail?
Save the High Street? Or let it evolve?
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