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Bath & North East Somerset Council, GB turns vacant stores into creative displays in renewal pilot

Bath & North East Somerset Council, GB Vacant Creative

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Twelve council-owned storefronts on Milsom Street were prepped for the displays by other local businesses. Local artists were commissioned using £12,000 available from events canceled earlier in the pandemic. The displays attracted attention to a previously busy street and sought new investments extending beyond COVID-19. Bath & North East Somerset Council will conduct similar programs over the next two years to fill 80 vacant storefronts.

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Dealing with empty shops: Bath and North East Somerset Council | Local Government Association

Bath and North East Somerset Council redirected funds from events unable to go ahead due to COVID-19 and used grant funding to pay for 12 installations by local artists in the shop windows of vacant commercial units in the town centre of Bath.

Project Succeeded

Two pop-up shops emerged from the early weeks of this pilot with owners citing artworks and window displays for their site decisions.

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