THE recession, and changing trends in retail, have left their mark on Glasgow city centre and you can see their impact, too, on places like the Savoy Centre, in Sauchiehall Street.
THE recession, and changing trends in retail, have left their mark on Glasgow city centre and you can see their impact, too, on places like the Savoy Centre, in Sauchiehall Street.
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by russell leadbetter
There are empty units just as there are in the big shopping streets nearby. But I have a soft spot for the centre, which has been around for more than 30 years.
In a way it's became a microcosm of the city and its growing multicultural profile: traders of one description or another come from South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Italian and China, according to one long-standing (Glasgow-born) tenant yesterday. "When I started here eight years ago," he said, "it was full of indigenous people, but it's a heck of a lot more cosmopolitan now."
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THE recession, and changing trends in retail, have left their mark on Glasgow city centre and you can see their impact, too, on places like the Savoy Centre, in Sauchiehall Street.
There are empty units just as there are in the big shopping streets nearby. But I have a soft spot for the centre, which has been around for more than 30 years.
In a way it's became a microcosm of the city and its growing multicultural profile: traders of one description or another come from South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Italian and China, according to one long-standing (Glasgow-born) tenant yesterday. "When I started here eight years ago," he said, "it was full of indigenous people, but it's a heck of a lot more cosmopolitan now."
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