St Stephens - What do you think?

[dylan]

OK, so here's the first post in the off-topic forum.

What do you think of the new St Stephens project in town. Personally, I'm a bit undecided - I think it was perhaps a bit oversold ;-)

What do you think?

[stormy]

Isnt it half empty? I have not had a chance to have a looksie yet. Keep meaning to.

Mike

[therobin]

I've not been in yet? what new shops to Hull are they??


 

[marko]

It's the usual lunatics running the asylum! Why build a shopping centre when princes quay and prospect centre both have empty units?

Maybe the central location next to the bus and railway station will prove a more profitable place to be. I'll go take a look when I have the time but as for shopping there, I'll carry on using the shops where I feel I get the best value for money....Namely shops with free car parking. 

marko...

[The Dominator]

Hi Marko - afaik St Stephens is free car parking?

The problem with any of the large shopping malls is that it needs people with money, and that is no disrespect to people of Hull (i being one of them!).

We have no high paying industries, no head offices, no banking sectors definitely no IT and no large manufacturing base, in truth we very little in the way of quality work. 
The biggest single employee in Hull is the Hull City Council, and that is shedding jobs (more will be going very soon..).

So unless Hull can attract quality investment in the jobs market and thus attract the right calibre of staff (a paradigmn shift in Hulls image is needed here!) then Hull is forever destined to fail. 

We have a top grade University within the city that producers thousands of quality graduates each year - how many stay in the City of Hull once they graduate? 
St Stephens and other projects can only help entice people to Hull, and once here they may come to realise that its actually not as bad as the media makes it out to be.

Do we have the same level of gun crime?  Knife crime?  Drugs? - (not sure about this one..)

The biggest single failure in Hull is education, we took the decision as a family to up sticks and move from Hull to Hessle due our daughter being placed at Sydney Smith.    Not a hope in Hell (or Hull!) was she being sent to a school of such disrepute. 
but getting back to subject - Its all KC's fault that we had to move.. and why St Stephens is great but may never reach its potential.  Why.....

Hmm - do i need to justify that one?



Personally i like St Stephens, and the interchange is superb a MASSIVE improvement for bus users..

[stormy]

I think its only free parking for Tesco, for 2 hours (or 3?). They have 700 places for the supermarket apparently, the other part of the car park around ~1500 places is not free.

I still have not had chance to check it out, not in Hull that often these days.

You are right about Hull needed to attract high calibre business to the area, you would think with the University it would be able to, although Hull kinda is out on a limb geography wise and at the end of the line. So I guess it will always be an uphill battle. Not really sure what can be done about that.

Mike

[dylan]

I think its only free parking for Tesco, for 2 hours (or 3?). They have 700 places for the supermarket apparently, the other part of the car park around ~1500 places is not free.

That's mental isn't it - How are they going to stop people parking in the free Tesco spaces yet shopping elsewhere - I know I would 

[stormy]

Not alot, but if its like Beverley where you get 3 Hours in Tesco for Free if you overstep the mark its a nice £75 quid ticket.

So if 2 hours is enough maybe its worth the risk, if you are in the city centre longer then its not going to work.

People do it now on the Kingston Retail park, but I believe it will be much more heavily enforced at Tesco.

If Tesco didnt have free parking, no one would bother shopping there and would choose a supermarket with free parking.

I could be completely wrong with regards to free parking at Tesco, as I still have not been to the place yet but I am sure I read it in HDM (so its bound to be wrong lol)

Mike

[ELI81]

Sorry for the late response here.

I found the new centre totally over hyped. Other than Tesco's there's really nothing that appeals. And from my point of view I'd much rather go to a more local supermarket than have to drive into the city centre and get pushed about whilst shopping.

[Soul Cruiser]

Well in winter is dam cold and draughty so we can assume in summer it will be like a greenhouse, if we get a summer this year 

Its not bad to wander about looking in shops....... errr well that is unless you have someone in a wheelchair to push up the dam slope three or four times and I have!

The shops with the exeption of Next are a complete waste and as for that Build a bear what moron spends £25 - £50 on a teddy bear that does not have a "Stife" button in it's ear, its just sad I made my youngest realise the value of money by making her use her own money. 

[dylan]

......... I made my youngest realise the value of money by making her use her own money. 

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