Case Study : High footfall limited space areas utilised for quality retail units

Summary

For the majority of retail businesses it is best to be located where there are higher levels of footfall. Currently the ‘high street’ is losing visitors and shopping / out of town centres are attracting increased volumes of visitors. This case study considers how high footfall areas too small for traditional retail shops could be utilised to provide additional retail opportunities.

Retail Project Background

A walkway area between two shopping centres was identified as being suitable for a market development. The project was to create a home for Fifteen self-contained and secure state of the art kiosks housing independent food and catering retailers

The retailers had a strong bias towards fresh, high quality produce with the new stalls being specifically designed to accommodate butchers, greengrocers, fresh fish and delicatessen product.

Fully fitted bespoke kiosks

For the butchers a large glass refrigerated display counter was critical in order to provide an attractive display. Traditional butchers block and stainless steel worksurfaces were incorporated along with additional refrigerated storage. Technology incorporated within the kiosk through an LCD flat screen and visual till system

Street Bakery

A street bakery providing freshly baked pizza’s and premium quality quiches, sausage rolls and baguettes required both chilled and reheat facilities. A large pizza oven being suitable to finish cooking the part cooked pizzas. Careful design of the counter allowed all of the products to be displayed to their maximum effect

Simple Kiosk Design

A simple design was incorporated for the small Sushi and Bibimbap bar where adjacent space was used to create a seated eating area. With so many eating options available clever use was made of space to incorporate menu boards

The resulting retail solution

Manufacturing fifteen self contained units meant

Traders were able to occupy space with the limited capital investment
The landlord was able to achieve and maintain the highest of standards
A consistency of external design was achieved creating a highly attractive retail area with each retailer having the internal environment to match their needs

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