Office and retail spaces in towns and cities face permanent change, so what next?

Coronavirus isn’t the reason why retail is reeling. It’s just sped up the process.

Famous High Street stores, some of them hundreds of years old will never be seen again. They’re migrating online, Debenhams and more recently The Gap have disappeared.

And those huge four and five storey flagship department stores are being drawn up and quartered - but into what?

Seaside towns are turning some into budget hotels but the process of filling these mighty Victorian behemoths remain locked in huge question marks.

Before Covid, city centres were turning into leisure destinations, mixing up restaurant chains with train stations and major stores.

But after Covid, even that’s up for grabs.

Planning consent is being eased by councils for residential accommodation to replace office blocks built in the sixties and seventies.

But what’s the knock-on effect to the out-of-town L-shaped shopping warehouses with expansive car parks?

Someone’s thinking big in this space. His name is John Hoyle, founder of Sook.

Sook is transforming the way we use physical spaces in our towns and cities.

Sook reactivates empty spaces with a modular digital fitout, so that any occupier can quickly and easily tailor it to their requirements. Renting by the hour, Sook maximises footfall and income for landlords, while making it simpler to reach the right audience, at the right time and the right price.

Let’s find out more with founder, John Hoyle.