Wrexham take note!

[Wrexham ITK]

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/20/from-bleak-to-bustling-how-one-french-town-beat-the-high-street-blues-mulhouse?utm_medium=10todayuk.20190530&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10todayuk

[Matt]

One small problem – where are we going to get the young & diverse cosmopolitan population from alongside wealthy cross border foreign shoppers?

Some people in town have voted twice to tell anyone Europeans with spending money to basically f*ck off.

Then the ambitious town regeneration investment plan? Unless you want updated paving then our annual treat of the difficult decisions document is the opposite – we can call it a degeneration plan.

Never mind someone might open a new vape shop soon & we could do with a giant sharps bin for all the smack heads to put their disgusting used needles rather than leave them all over kids playgrounds which is currently going on.

Other than that I can see no hitches with the emulation of that town plan.

[Councillor X]

Matt, what we need is a third Wetherspoons and a lap dancing club. Sadly the latter is not happening but I would have liked the Hippodrome to have been made into a spoons like the one in Llandudno.

Next we want to bring back the trams. I used to like the bus that used to go through town and drop us off at the pub. How cosmo would trams be?

[Sheefag]

I think we should bring back the war.

We were damn good at it.

it’s an excellent way of bringing full employment, the people were thinner and at least third rate celebs weren’t on the telly every night, crying on ‘Dancing With The CakeBakers’ or whatever.

Hitler, Goering, Rommel, Monty et al, proper stars they were and not a tear from any of them.

[Sheefag]

The council didn’t take the piss when Stalin was in charge eh?

Think on.

[Alunh]

The Mulhouse case quoted here is just an example of what you can do when you sit down and try to work out how to get ahead of the curve.

The reality of Branding a town and trying to work out what you can do to get the best out of it, is that you play to the strengths that you have, and you look at the possibilities that make sense for the future.

Whilst many (constantly) have a go at the town, it has a lot of things in place that could see it revive rapidly. The floor capacity of Island Green and Plas Coch, neither of which were in play in the 1980s, is probably greater than the entire retail capacity of Wrexham in the 1980s, so there are things in play.

What we seem to lack is any sense of direction……or perhaps, any sense

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