Renewal Ready
An ambitious project to revitalise Newcastle's CBD by populating vacant shops with community projects may be up and running by christmas.
In less than two months, Newcastle-born arts identity Marcus Westbury has taken the idea from the publiuc meeting stage to being ready to sigtn contracts with prospective landlords.
His Renew Newcastle organisation now has a formal board which involves such figures as Hunter Business Chamber Chief Peter Shinnick and architecture force Professor Steffan Lechmann with prominent legal firm Sparke Helmore offering advice free of charge.
"It was founded to help solve the problem of Newcastle's empty CBD," Mr Westbury said.
