Shoppers have expressed hopes that a 'miserable' street will be made 'more attractive' by progress at Broadmarsh. Lister Gate in Nottingham city centre has been left barren after a series of shop closures, including Marks and Spencer, Pret and WHSmith.
The shutters coming down on so many businesses has been attributed to Covid and the Broadmarsh shopping centre's closure after the collapse of retail giant intu in 2020. A £20m bid was recently submitted to the Government's Levelling Up Fund by Nottingham City Council to help finance the huge transformation of the Broadmarsh site, which would include a new 'green heart' called Lister Square at the bottom of Lister Gate.
Shoppers said the street was currently "dire" and "dead", but expressed hope for the future should the Broadmarsh vision come to fruition. Dave Shaw, 57, a civil servant from The Meadows, said: "I think it will bring businesses back and make it much more attractive.
