Our blog discuss issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones with a new angle.
Here you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research. There may also be observations from what we learn on projects and when out and about.
Over the past 12 months, we’ve been managing several stakeholder engagement projects. Whilst talking to business owners, BID members, workers, market traders and high street users in very different places,...
Last month we visited Ruddington, a large village five miles from Nottingham with a host of indie shops, local history museums and a country park. In 2019, the village launched...
This week I attended BDO’s annual retail trading seminar for the first time. Presented by retail partner, Sophie Michael and Richard Lim of Retail Economics, the seminar took an in-depth...
2019 has been a busy year at the Assembly Line. We have worked on a number of interesting and diverse projects and we are now planning ahead for 2020.We have...
Hawkins Brown, an international practice of architects, interior designers, urban designers and researchers invited The Assembly Line in last month to talk about ‘The role of markets and the changing...
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the north west this year. I know the region well having grown up there and worked in Manchester early in my career....