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Seeking 600 Property Owners! [20.10.2009]
Do you know anyone who actually owns empty properties in the Newcastle CBD? Do you know anyone who works in real estate in Newcastle? Do you know anyone who can help Renew Newcastle expand and give life to even more of the city?
After bringing some much needed new life to the Hunter Street Mall, Renew Newcastle is now setting its sights on fixing up other parts of the CBD. This week Renew Newcastle has written a letter and sent this brochure to 600 CBD property owners seeking new properties, new partners and new parts of the city to revitalise.
But we're not sure they read their mail, so we need every person in the city who believes in Renew Newcastle to put in a good word for us!
Since Renew Newcastle's first projects opened in a half empty Hunter Street Mall in February we've created nearly 40 local galleries, studios, design stores, craft outlets, creative enterprises and a tea house in nearly 30 empty spaces.
They've brought unprecedented publicity, attraction, foot traffic and interest back to Newcastle. As we've always hoped, that is now translating into new commercial demand for the retail spaces around the mall which is limiting access to new spaces, closing down some others and relocating some of our existing projects.
Yet there are still more than a hundred vacant buildings in Newcastle!
That's why this week we've written to 600 other property owners, offering to clean out, fix up and put caretakers into their empty buildings. We want to draw their attention to our success to date and to the fact we've come up with some legally simple and tax friendly strategies that allow us to utilise spaces while they are empty.
Renew Newcastle is a win-win for property owners. We clean up their properties and make them active and presentable. They save on maintenance, on insurance, and our projects pick up all the outgoings. As the transformation of the mall demonstrates, commercial tenants are attracted to that. Of course the benefits go beyond the bottom line. It's also fantastic to be involved in nurturing creative enterprises and new and interesting activities in the city.
If you know anyone at all who might be able to help us with property can you put in a good word for us? Even better send them to this web site or get them to email us at property@renewnewcastle.org
