Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
My point is that there's barely any retail left in Birmingham, when it used to be 90% retail. This means that Birmingham no longer competes with retail centers. Birmingham is now a restaurant center, pretty much.
I don't spend too much time in Birmingham, neither as an adult or when I was a child, but when was it over 90% retail? I have to imagine it was a 20+ yrs ago? It's hard to compete when you have Somerset so close.