Bow Street Mall in Lisburn is equally bad. Abbeycentre seems to be running fairly well for some reason.
Flatten that whole area and sell the land. Use that money to tunnel railway lines under William Street in Lurgan.
People generally don’t like going to shops anymore. Probably never did but had too. People who do like going to shops, probably like going somewhere with free parking and many many high quality shops under one massive roof.
Online and large shopping centers are good business because that’s what people want. High streets just have had their head buried in the sand and have never changed their business model to work in the modern age.
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Surprised it wasn’t made into “Lesley High Street Mall”
I live in Tokyo but go back every Xmas.
Within Portadown, is there anywhere I could take my Japanese wife that’s not too depressing and maybe paints a positive picture of the town. Even a cafe or something is fine.
Why is it you can go across the border (Swords) and it’s shopping centre is booming. Not a single empty unit. It’s the same in Dublin city centre. A lot of their shops, high streets and shopping centre have full vacancy.
Why is the UK suffering so badly when it comes to physic retail?
Who is to blame for this ???
The High Street Mall has been in a drawn out decline for well over a decade at this point.
high street mall good to walk though when its raining. fine grabby machines to throw a pound into as well
Looks like its going the same way as connswater
It’s that empty Philly Nana probably doesn’t go there anymore.
Honestly I’m surprised Ards Shopping Centre has survived Leslie-free. Thankful for it though.
How long till yer man Jamie rob is in there
Kennedy Centre is the best of them all. A real family centric place, always buzzing, rarely an empty unit. And you get Gerry selling a book now and again. As soon as you go elsewhere, especially the loyalist shitholes it’s like Blade Runner with shit special effects. I mean, do they have no pride? Run down, flags everywhere, and they need foreigners to work for them because they’re too tired after being out all night, harrassing the same working people. Embarrassing!
I’m not happy about online shopping killing the high street but shopping centres are miserable shitholes and I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone ever thought they were a good idea. Let’s suck the life out of our town centres by packing everything into cramped, stuffy and deeply, deeply ugly “backrooms” that acoustically amplify the eternal cacophony of yappy youngsters.
It only took about 30 years, and survived one IRA bomb in 1998, but ofcourse Gerry denied it.
The malls came and killed the high streets, and now online shopping has killed the malls.
Jesus Christ, I knew it was bad a month ago but you’d think with all the downsizing they did 5 years ago there’d still be something in that section up to where Dunnes used to be
Buttercrane and The Quays are on the way out, too. The Quays may as well just be a big Sainsburys.
It’s the most depressing mall I’ve ever been in
I just assumed they were closing those shops to make way for more bigger units like BandM etc… the bit that was changed a few years back seems popular enough. Lidl is in the old Dunnes unit. The inside bit that was left behind is a bit dark and unloved since. Meadows used to be the very same but it’s always very busy now since the range went in. The town itself doesn’t have very much but charity shops and Turkish barbers these days. There’s so many hairdressers it has to be a racket. I used to quite like going up the town, but it’s quite depressing these days
Have to agree, as an example look at Bangor, a beautiful seaside City for many many years, filled with culture, music, class and family businesses. Bangor is now dead and filled with drugs… you heard me (not migrants but loyalist thugs pedalling drugs) and laundering it through barber shops and takeaways. Many have said that Lesley Bloomfield Mall killed Bangor but just check out the blatant sectarianism on the flyover bridge as you drive into Bangor, the paramilitary flags on every street and lamp post. And the bigotry from it’s associated Facebook page- Bangor Past Present Future. The local cretins and knuckledraggers now blame the migrants at every turn for the destruction of Bangor, no longer are out of town shopping malls to blame.
I remember seeing a man stealing a chicken from the Dunnes in it
Security guard shouts “hi boy what are you doing with that chicken”
“ROASTIES AND VEG” he shouted back as he ran out
There was two wee fella’s driving their bikes through it two days ago. Even the security wasn’t there. I bought my first ever CD where Mackey’s opticians (very recently) used to be. It was called the CD store, aptly named. It was Queen Live at the Bowl btw. This was 22 years ago.
That took long enough. How haunting and sad.
I remember it being alright before I went off to uni, but it seemed to get absolutely hammered by the credit crunch, and never recovered. That’s Portadown as a whole, really. For a few years at the start of the 2000s, it was halfway to being an okay town, then it all went to shit incredibly fast.
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That’s Rushmere and business rates for you. Lurgan High Street has died a similar death the past 15 years.
Popped in the other day to go to the Works. Where the hell did they go!
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It is almost as if Amazon should pay tax or something.
All too common sight now adays flagship Bangor and more recently connswater went the same way more will follow unfortunately.
Is it actually still open?
Is the Halifax port-a-cabin still there?
Seems like they couldn’t be fucked putting anything on their [website](https://www.highstreetmall.co.uk/index.html).
They should repurpose it as a school or tech.
Bow Street Mall in Lisburn is equally bad. Abbeycentre seems to be running fairly well for some reason.
Flatten that whole area and sell the land. Use that money to tunnel railway lines under William Street in Lurgan.
People generally don’t like going to shops anymore. Probably never did but had too. People who do like going to shops, probably like going somewhere with free parking and many many high quality shops under one massive roof.
Online and large shopping centers are good business because that’s what people want. High streets just have had their head buried in the sand and have never changed their business model to work in the modern age.
Taken by the Backrooms
Surprised it wasn’t made into “Lesley High Street Mall”
I live in Tokyo but go back every Xmas.
Within Portadown, is there anywhere I could take my Japanese wife that’s not too depressing and maybe paints a positive picture of the town. Even a cafe or something is fine.
Why is it you can go across the border (Swords) and it’s shopping centre is booming. Not a single empty unit. It’s the same in Dublin city centre. A lot of their shops, high streets and shopping centre have full vacancy.
Why is the UK suffering so badly when it comes to physic retail?
Who is to blame for this ???
The High Street Mall has been in a drawn out decline for well over a decade at this point.
high street mall good to walk though when its raining. fine grabby machines to throw a pound into as well
Looks like its going the same way as connswater
It’s that empty Philly Nana probably doesn’t go there anymore.
Honestly I’m surprised Ards Shopping Centre has survived Leslie-free. Thankful for it though.
How long till yer man Jamie rob is in there
Kennedy Centre is the best of them all. A real family centric place, always buzzing, rarely an empty unit. And you get Gerry selling a book now and again. As soon as you go elsewhere, especially the loyalist shitholes it’s like Blade Runner with shit special effects. I mean, do they have no pride? Run down, flags everywhere, and they need foreigners to work for them because they’re too tired after being out all night, harrassing the same working people. Embarrassing!
I’m not happy about online shopping killing the high street but shopping centres are miserable shitholes and I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone ever thought they were a good idea. Let’s suck the life out of our town centres by packing everything into cramped, stuffy and deeply, deeply ugly “backrooms” that acoustically amplify the eternal cacophony of yappy youngsters.
It only took about 30 years, and survived one IRA bomb in 1998, but ofcourse Gerry denied it.
The malls came and killed the high streets, and now online shopping has killed the malls.
Jesus Christ, I knew it was bad a month ago but you’d think with all the downsizing they did 5 years ago there’d still be something in that section up to where Dunnes used to be
Buttercrane and The Quays are on the way out, too. The Quays may as well just be a big Sainsburys.
It’s the most depressing mall I’ve ever been in
I just assumed they were closing those shops to make way for more bigger units like BandM etc… the bit that was changed a few years back seems popular enough. Lidl is in the old Dunnes unit. The inside bit that was left behind is a bit dark and unloved since. Meadows used to be the very same but it’s always very busy now since the range went in. The town itself doesn’t have very much but charity shops and Turkish barbers these days. There’s so many hairdressers it has to be a racket. I used to quite like going up the town, but it’s quite depressing these days
Have to agree, as an example look at Bangor, a beautiful seaside City for many many years, filled with culture, music, class and family businesses. Bangor is now dead and filled with drugs… you heard me (not migrants but loyalist thugs pedalling drugs) and laundering it through barber shops and takeaways. Many have said that Lesley Bloomfield Mall killed Bangor but just check out the blatant sectarianism on the flyover bridge as you drive into Bangor, the paramilitary flags on every street and lamp post. And the bigotry from it’s associated Facebook page- Bangor Past Present Future. The local cretins and knuckledraggers now blame the migrants at every turn for the destruction of Bangor, no longer are out of town shopping malls to blame.
I remember seeing a man stealing a chicken from the Dunnes in it
Security guard shouts “hi boy what are you doing with that chicken”
“ROASTIES AND VEG” he shouted back as he ran out
There was two wee fella’s driving their bikes through it two days ago. Even the security wasn’t there. I bought my first ever CD where Mackey’s opticians (very recently) used to be. It was called the CD store, aptly named. It was Queen Live at the Bowl btw. This was 22 years ago.
That took long enough. How haunting and sad.
I remember it being alright before I went off to uni, but it seemed to get absolutely hammered by the credit crunch, and never recovered. That’s Portadown as a whole, really. For a few years at the start of the 2000s, it was halfway to being an okay town, then it all went to shit incredibly fast.
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