Renew Australia Local Business Survey - Chapel Street |
Introduction
Renew Australia created this survey to collect feedback from Chapel Street local businesses and representatives. Your local insights, experience and opinions will help to gauge interest in longer-term activation strategies to reduce commercial property vacancies and improve main street vibrancy.
About Renew Australia
Renew Australia is a national social enterprise designed to catalyse community renewal, economic development, the arts, and creative industries across Australia.
How Renew activation projects work
- Renew works with property owners and agents to breathe life into empty spaces by making them rent free to creative enterprises
- Renew and the property owner carefully select enterprises that suit the premises and surrounding businesses
- Any creative enterprise will not directly compete with existing tenants in the area
- The tenant has a 30-day license and the property owner can keep the property for lease and show interested parties
- The tenant or the property owner can give 30 days’ notice at any time to vacate.
Key benefits to local traders and business owners
Renew projects aim to:
Renew projects aim to:
- Transform empty spaces into vibrant places
- Compliment not compete with neighbouring retail shops and offices
- Benefit existing retailers and businesses
- Bring more foot traffic to the area
- Breathe life into the precinct
- Give creative enterprise a taste of running their business in a retail space
- Capacity build creative enterprises so that signing a lease and paying rent is the next step
- Reduce the chance of vandalism, increase the appeal of the property, and assist potential long-term tenants to visualise their own business in the space
- Activate spaces to bring people and energy into an area, making it more appealing to prospective tenants.
Learn more about Renew Australia and our projects nationwide at renewaustralia.org/news
If you have any questions in regard to this survey please contact Renew Australia and our staff will be happy to discuss it further with you.
Email: susannah@renewaustralia.org
Website: www.renewaustralia.org
Thank you for taking the time to complete our survey.