Thewasp wrote:It may just be that they are investing in those areas... there are plans to redevelop Churchill Way and then there is the CIA which may make way which I turn could have an impact on Queen street. It does need a bit of love though as it seems like a scene from Syria you see on the news sometimes sadly.
There are a few empty units and a couple of empty plots on the eastern side of the city - but that comparison is just in poor taste, especially given what could be just about to happen in Syria.
More generally, I think the city council is doing two things:
1. It does want to improve the links between the centre and the bay. Lloyd George Avenue has never quite worked in doing that. Hence metro plans for changing the rail link to the bay, etc.
2. More fundamentally, it wants to support the development of new commercial space and residential space, to attract new jobs and businesses, and to help house more people. There is more scope for that on the South Western side of the city centre, given the low-value industrial space around the top of Penarth Road and Dumballs Road. There isn't the same scope on the eastern side, where it has often proved more cost effective to convert older space into new residential (often student) space rather than proper Grade A office space. Maybe that will change going fowards with the changes to rules on student resi though.
How quickly any of the major developments will happen though is going to be affected by what happens in the next month far away from Cardiff.