Yes a lovely glossy video of an artists impression of what it will be, including a complete lack of the crowds needed to sustain such a development!
No mention of car park charges, business rates, or how it will tackle the unstoppable evolvement of the retail business towards online trading. Nothing to really give any new direction, apart from some developers giving themselves jobs and some even getting rich on the back of it.
No, like everywhere else purely throwing money at it is not the answer to reverse the trend of retail in the 21st century.
Take down here in Ashford, Kent. Massive development with apartments and houses going up everywhere, with new office blocks and industrial/warehouse premises. A International rail link with HS1 the M20 and new roads to service the new developments. Population in 1990 was 93,000; in 2018 129,000, and in 2021 it will be 141,000.
But despite that, and a town centre development a few years back, with the famous (Infamous) "Shared Space" road system, the five year old centerpiece Debenhams store has now closed; M&S have departed, the main Post Office has gone, but we do have a new Aldi, a Lidl, a M&S Foodhall (all out of town) loads of hairdressers / barbers, cafes, and even a new Metro bank. In other words, the really big retail names have departed the town itself, with retail parks taking up the remaining trade. Oh how different from the 1960's!
No, Barnsley should be given credit for apparently trying to resurrect their town centre but it is going to take a lot more than a fancy promotional video