‘Ghost Shops’ – is the problem oversupply or a lack of imagination ?
ABC news has reported that ghost shops haunt new apartment blocks as a 'perfect storm' hits suburban retailers. The default development solution in Melbourne is to create poorly designed small ‘retail spaces’ at the ground level of every apartment building. This is bound to result in many failed storefronts, especially those that are are in the wrong places to ever succeed. It’s hard to be surprised really. Yet the ABC description of there being a ‘oversupply of retail space’