gumption blog - bradford
The UK government has announced the 14 cities eligible to bid for money to make themselves "super-connected" and help kickstart the economy.
This is to bring investment to create a 100Mbps fibre network to 10 urban areas and make it available to Bradford at a much reduced cost of current commercial levels. It would also bring free wifi to Bradford city centre and support inward investment and other regeneration intiatives.
The four UK capitals - London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast have already been announced and among cities eligible to bid are Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield.
Dave Melling of Bradford Council is spear-heading to bid and is seeking support from the Bradford community for:
- examples of how this could support and develop enterprises including business chains.
- ideas for education, information and demand building…
Winning Moves, manufacturers of this version of the MONOPOLY game under license from Hasbro, say the new official MONOPOLY: Bradford Edition is coming about following the city recently being crowned the very first ‘UNESCO world City of Film' as well as officially becoming ‘England's curry capital'.
Winning Moves say Bradford, Ilkley, Saltaire and Haworth will all feature on the…
In this period of austerity measures and spending reviews, there's inevitably going to be further delays on developments such as the Odeon / New Victoria.
In a perfect world, we'd all love to see a ballroom, a 2000 seat auditorium for theatre, music and film. We'd all love to bring the romance and charm back into this centrally located building. But there are things that concern…
This project is now just subject to final planning permission.
"While the loss of the Odeon's turrets and façade would be regretted, we are satisfied that the benefits of the proposal would outweigh the harm which it would cause. English Heritage would therefore support the revised scheme."
Check out the PLANS. On balance, we think it has to happen.
Welcome to the "Westfield Shopping Experience"!
With their focus on opening Westfield Stratford in time for the London Olympics http://uk.westfield.com/stratfordcity, it's probably going to be some time before they're back in Bradford.
Yes, we also have the credit crunch, but whatever the reason(s), we believe they have a moral responsibility to carry out some interim landscaping to this central location in our city centre. The costs…
We love the park concept of making Bradford city centre more welcoming to families and our visitors. It's also Gumption's back garden too!
One plea - as a dad of 3, I just hope they include an enclosed playground for little kids too. We'll be shopping in Bradford much more (Westfield or no Westfield).
Click HERE to see the video and tell us what you…
Okay, we somehow gathered 130 people to the first www.bradfordnowhere.com event last month and expect 200 at the October event.
But what should we do to channel these fantastically positive-minded people into a trading unit, or should we just leave up to people to 'use their gumption' and get together?
Thoughts?
