dimairt wrote:On way to the GFT last night, we counted eight shop premises lying vacant on Sauchiehall St between Cambridge St. and Douglas St.
Durachan,
Eddy
Are they all shops though? Off the top of my heid, in that area, I can think of at least four which are vacant restaurants/cafes (Costa moved over the road, then there's Bradfords, Vanilla Blacks and the old Paperino's which opened up as something else and lasted about 5 minutes).
The shops would be where the Celtic Shop used to be, plus the unit next door that had a shouty man selling perfume from it last Christmas. The Cheque Shop, Biggars Pawnbrokers which only vacated in the last month or so, then there's the former Wine Shop.
Am I a bad person for not wanting anything to big to move along that way? I quite like it the way it is - I can get everything I need round the corner without having to pay a fortune for rent or running the gauntlet of Sauchiehall Street "proper".
By the way, the block where Jumpin' Jaks is will be coming down at some point and new student accommodation going up. That'll be a few more shop units at street level and potentially a new pub or two.
"-What was all that then? - What? - THAT. - That was Glasgow"