Our CBDs in the main have been ravaged by COVID; some more than others, but it makes any form of ‘ranking’ their sales performances simply futile.
The CBD Guns feature next year, however, will probably be the most interesting of all our sectors – Big, Little, Mini and CBD. Why? Because massive change will occur in our CBDs that will be permanent.
How offices will operate; how many days people will work in the city; what hours they choose (it certainly won’t be the old ‘nine to five’), will not necessarily diminish CBD retail but it will definitely change it. Weekend CBD retail, tourist CBD retail, periodical and holiday CBD retail (Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day and so on), will all bounce back very quickly but the normal Monday to Friday CBD retail now has added dimensions.
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